Soccer players may present a higher rate of depression and burnout than the general population. Still, Connor Tobin, professional soccer player and cofounder and executive director of the United Soccer League Players Association, says professional soccer lacks the resources to support players' mental health.
Tobin sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how USLPA aims to aid players through a...
Singapore-headquartered telehealth company ORA has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round – touted to be the largest telehealth funding in Southeast Asia to date – led by TNB Aura and Antler. The round was also participated by Gobi Partners, Kairous Capital, and GMA Ventures.
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ORA runs a vertically-integrated telehealth platform that delivers over 250,000 consultations since...
During the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicare improperly paid for $580 million of psychotherapy care, including $348 million of telehealth services, according to an audit by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General.
The report, which estimated that Medicare paid for $1 billion of psychotherapy that year, included more than 13.5 million...
After years of slow movement advancing telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies, the landscape changed rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions.
At HIMSS23, Daniel, who previously served as the founding director of the Office of Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
Audio-only telehealth visits still make up a significant portion of primary and behavioral healthcare at federally qualified health centers in California, according to a RAND Corporation study published in JAMA.
Though audio-only visits have declined from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found they accounted for one in five primary care visits and two in five behavioral health...
Virtual health company MediBuddy has acquired the telehealth business of US-based managed healthcare company Aetna in India.
vHealth by Aetna, which is run by Aetna's subsidiary Indian Health Organisation (IHO), offers subscription-based primary healthcare services, including telephone and video consultations and delivery of medicines, blood tests and other home healthcare products across 38...
Oncology patients saved both time and travel costs when utilizing telehealth services, reducing the cost burden associated with cancer care, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The economic evaluation, conducted through Moffitt Cancer Center, estimated patient cost savings due to telehealth, including the cost of travel and potential loss of productivity due to the medical visit...
Singaporean telehealth company Doctor Anywhere has fully acquired Catalist-listed Asian Healthcare Specialists, a multidisciplinary medical care group.
The latter offers a wide range of specialist services, including anaesthesia, dermatology, family medicine, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, rehabilitation and urology, across 12 clinics in Singapore.
Its 14...
In 2019, I met with dozens of colleagues to discuss incorporating telemedicine into our practice. Almost all engaged politely with me. But afterward, very few acted. The subtext was clear: "We’re not interested." Their sentiment was quite typical. At the time, telemedicine accounted for a tiny fraction of U.S. clinical encounters.
In March 2020, this changed suddenly. In response to the pandemic...
As another year shaken by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic ends, stakeholders are still exploring how virtual care trends that accelerated in 2020 will affect the healthcare industry long term.
Though telehealth use spiked out of necessity during the early months and remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, utilization has slowed over the past two years. Meanwhile, big retail companies and...
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