Requests for abortion medications provided through telemedicine surged in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis published in JAMA.
The study followed anonymous requests to self-manage abortions received through Aid Access, a nonprofit that mails the pills mifepristone and misoprostol to patients in the U.S. and other countries. It divided...
Weekly electronic symptom-tracking surveys improved physical function, symptom control and health-related quality of life among cancer patients, according to a study published in JAMA.
In a randomized trial that included 52 practices and 1,191 patients receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, researchers found statistically significant improvements in secondary outcomes like function and...
Digital cognitive behavioral therapy could help treat Black women with insomnia, according to a new study published in JAMA.
Researchers found that study participants using an internet-based intervention for insomnia, with a tailored version for Black women and a standard version, significantly reduced their score on the insomnia severity index.
In the single-blind, 3-arm randomized control...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visits for contraception care shot up in states that mandated telehealth be reimbursed at the same rate as in-person visits, according to new research published in JAMA.
Researchers found that telehealth accounted for 30.5% of contraceptive visits in parity states and 21.6% of visits in nonparity states during the pandemic. Thatup from telemedicine...
A team-based digital approach to care could be key for treating patients with diabetic kidney disease (DKD), according to results of a new study in JAMA.
Researchers found that patients enrolled in the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) web portal who received a team-based empowered-care program met more of their treatment targets than the participants enrolled in standard of care or a...
As the shortage of mental health professionals continues to rise in the U.S., more and more startups are looking to design digital health technologies to tackle this gap. While anxiety and depression are among the most popular conditions treated through digital means, there are a number of products to help individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which impacts roughly 1.2% of the U.S...
Yelp reviews of health providers could be a key to identifying patterns of discrimination in healthcare settings, according to a new JAMA investigation.
Complaints about an individual actor were the most common, followed by reports of institutional racism. Researchers also found that about half of the complaints involved clinical spaces.
"This exploratory qualitative content analysis of...
Smartphones may be a key component to expanding at-home COVID-19 testing, according to a new study published in JAMA.
Researchers tested the use of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based methodology (LAMP), combined with smartphone-based detection, for COVID-19 and influenza testing. The results indicated that the smartphone-backed system was able to reliably detect for the COVID-19...
Consumers are reluctant to hand over personal data about their location, social media use and finances for health-related use, according to a new study published in JAMA.
The research, which compared consumers' willingness to share personal data to their willingness to share information from their electronic health record, found that patients were more open to sharing steps from an activity-...
Digital health interventions may be able to help patients self-monitor and manage their health, according to a study published in JAMA. However, researchers found that the interventions did not significantly reduce the rate of hospitalizations among individuals with multiple chronic conditions.
The single-blinded randomized study, conducted in British Columbia, gave patients with two or more...
