The COVID-19 crisis has pushed many healthcare providers to upgrade their telehealth and virtual patient engagement offerings. Patients will not want to give these options up when the pandemic has ...

Virtual nurse Adrienne Sanchez prepares to connect with a patient at LMH Health. Telemedicine isn’t a new concept in health care. Connecting with your health care provider online is a great way to get ...

Researchers explore the impact of virtual collaborative care on mental health and quality of life for breast cancer patients, ...

During the dark early months of the pandemic, so many people flocked to virtual care that pundits started to question whether they’d ever return to physical offices. But when physicians came back — in ...

As the medical education community continues to work to solve problems in the field and improve educational outcomes, some experts are touting virtual patients as the logical next step in the ...

More cancer centers are introducing virtual reality headsets, which can help relieve anxiety and pain and educate patients about their treatments. Given the choice of being on a beach or in an ...

Pain medications are not all created equal; effects – and side effects – vary. For many hospital patients, pain is part of their reality. According to a new study, however, an unreal environment might ...

To ease the risk of COVID-19 exposure in crowded waiting rooms, hospitals reopening for non-emergent care are taking a page from the restaurant industry. Executives at Southwestern Vermont Medical ...

Minimizing the use of sedatives during operations could shorten hospital stays and reduce the risk of complications. Immersing patients in virtual reality could help reduce the amount of local ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. - Ireland Army Health Clinic announces a new virtual health care tool – My Military Health Scheduled Virtual Visits. “Our patients want choices in how they receive their health care,” ...

In an effort to develop a vaccine for HIV (above), scientists at Harvard and MIT have started to perform many of their experiments in biologically accurate virtual environments. Credit: Ian ...