Tag Archives: telehealth

Amwell growth slows in Q1 amid investor fears of telehealth deceleration

Dive Brief: Telehealth giant Amwell saw a rise in revenue and visits in the first quarter, but its growth is decelerating from 2020, bolstering market fears about the sustainability of the virtual care boom. In quarterly results released aftermarket Wednesday, the Boston-based telehealth vendor beat Wall Street expectations on earnings but missed on revenue. Its… Read More »

The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s Health Research Institute has combed through their consumer survey data and developed insights on health consumers, shared in a summary titled Consumer health behavior and the COVID-19 pandemic: What we’ve learned. Most U.S. consumers would be likely to… Read More »

Deep dive: Tracking the past 12 months of telehealth at Yale New Haven Health

Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut is a five-hospital, seven-campus health system that includes a large physician practice, numerous ambulatory centers and a home care agency. It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of… Read More »

Telehealth privacy and security: Investment and education are key, attorney says

The size, scope and rapidity of new telehealth and remote patient monitoring rollouts since the onset of the coronavirus crisis has been remarkable. Hospitals and practices that had never before deployed virtual-care tools learned quickly how to integrate them. Those that had experience saw massive increases in the number of video visits. But if telehealth… Read More »