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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items in Australia – including the termination of 128 items, amendment of 17 items, and the addition of two more items – have taken effect this week. Some healthcare leaders in the country have pointed out potential consequences of the MBS telehealth changes.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Telehealth Group Therapy for Suicidal Clients or Patients

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The literature on treating suicidal patients via telehealth group therapy is sparse. Telehealth Group Study Overview Seventeen participants were enrolled in a 10-week, manualized video group. The video equipment chosen to deliver PLF via telehealth included either VA Video Connect (VVC) or VA WebEx software.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. Although the study tracked patients from 2005 to 2011, before the current telehealth boom , it offers yet another piece of evidence for why virtual care is likely to remain a staple in healthcare even after the pandemic.

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Should Graduate Schools Teach Telehealth Competency?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

As telehealth adoption continues to grow, telehealth competency education and training or the key to providing safe, effective, evidence-based telebehavioral health (TBH) services. Many providers have offered virtual care for nearly three years, but how many of these practitioners were trained in telehealth?

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Prescriptions Are Up, Health Services Utilization Down, and GLP-1s Are a Major Growth Driver: IQVIA’s 2024 Update

Health Populi

The other four types of utilization measured fell below the 100 line, including vaccinations at 96 (for adults, pediatrics, and flu); office, institutional and telehealth visits at 95; elective procedures at 95; and, screening and diagnostic tests the lowest at 94. Drug shortages impacting patient care are a new-normal to deal with in U.S.