The telehealth sector has been under massive pressure since the COVID spike, and the weight loss management opportunity is finally sparking interest in virtual care again.
The new year is poised to be consequential for online health care as several pandemic-era telemedicine measures are set to phase out, leaving many in the industry anxious over which will be kept, telehealth policy watchers said.
Virtual health care providers have criticized state-based medical licensure rules as unnecessarily burdensome, expensive, and detrimental to patient care.
Nutritionists at Mayo Clinic are using telemedicine to evaluate patients' nutrition status, diagnose probable cases of sarcopenia, assess the severity of tube site infections, and repair rather than replace costly catheters that rupture.
UGA Public Health recently published a study that tests the accuracy of existing clinical decision rules for flu in a telehealth setting using only patient-reported symptoms.