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.
RAND researchers make the case for expanding virtual mental healthcare access, but caution that the Pentagon will have to get the implementation right if they want to make telehealth as effective as in-person care.
In 2020, home use of tools like connected blood pressure cuffs, continuous glucose monitors, and weight scales shot up, with billing for the devices and their associated care more than quadrupling.