A large retrospective cohort study analyzed outpatient visits across five hospitals within the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) from January 1, 2019, to September 30, 2024. The study included 46,149,734 visits among 2,248,341 patients. Telemedicine surged from 1% of visits pre-pandemic to 17% in April 2020, before stabilising at 4-6% from 2022 onwards. […]
New research at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals in the U.K. will evaluate whether the levels of NT-proBNP, a heart damage biomarker that serves as a prognostic marker of pulmonary hypertension, can be accurately measured in a finger-prick blood sample that can be taken by patients at home and sent by mail to laboratories (this
What’s next for digital health after COVID-19? Here is an interesting article from MedTechViews by Naveed Khan, Director of Commercial and Business Development/Digital Health at Biotronik. The author says there is no doubt the pandemic has accelerated digital health but, for new innovations to truly work for both physicians and patients, help is needed to
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