Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Back and neck pain is often treated with potentially addictive pain medications and even surgery,” said Matt McGirt, M.D., Vx® Therapy, developed by Harvard MedTech, overcomes these barriers by offering therapy remotely along with an in-home virtual reality program that is guided by a behavioral health clinician. “As

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The opioid epidemic in the United States has become a major public health crisis in recent years. Opioid use not only affects physical health but also mental health. Additionally, individuals who are struggling with opioid addiction may also be more likely to experience co-occurring mental health issues.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 6, 2023

The following article is written as a series of articles explaining how to integrate an emerging technology into one’s clinical practice and how to do so in a culturally appropriate manner. The following addiction telehealth scenario involves a recently immigrated Nigerian wife and mother struggling with opioid addiction.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

BrightView Health, a behavioral health facility that specializes in addiction treatment and substance abuse, already was using telehealth when the COVID-19 pandemic and associated response happened. Kang, PsyD, chief clinical officer at BrightView Health and a fellow with the Obama Foundation. " Navdeep S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

About eight years ago, Joe Clubb arrived at Allina Health, a non-profit health system serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Today he is vice president of operations in mental health and addiction services. Allina Health was inconsistent in how it provided that psychiatric coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Success Stories & ROI Having gained some hard-won wisdom about the dos and don'ts of information technology investments in recent years, healthcare providers are getting bolder in their digital transformation spending. million medication instructions without.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Joshua Merok, Michigan Avenue Primary Care. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." You can really envision the delivery of automated services – public health services, social services – anywhere to the person in the community.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But did you know virtual health is making a big impact on inmate care? Virtual care is now a regular aspect of the clinical landscape, from emergency response to behavioral and addiction treatment to military life. Inmates with mental illness can receive more consistent psychiatric care, reducing problematic behavior.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have been the focus of research within the past decade due to concerns about Facebook addiction and Instagram addiction. Social media addiction may be associated with the time spent using the sites. A Facebook addiction scale was developed in 2017 by Andreassen and colleagues.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 30, 2022

” to explore some of the most common security problems and how blockchain technology offers one of the most promising trends in the future of security for behavioral and telehealth services. Security Concerns in Behavioral and Telehealth Services. What Is Blockchain Technology?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 16, 2023

This article will provide relevant facts, discuss the repercussions of using e-cigarettes from the perspective of tobacco addiction, and review a recently published journal article. Tobacco Addiction Facts Let’s start with tobacco, then look at how e-cigarettes fit into the picture.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Uniting under the BehaVR brand, digital therapeutic companies BehaVR and OxfordVR will deliver comprehensive virtual reality-based treatments for mental and behavioral health. Clinically-validated, immersive, digital treatments will span the full spectrum of mental and behavioral health needs.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. They can receive care from their homes rather than traveling to a health care facility. Other changes are expected but have not yet been announced.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you think about technology as simply being able to do more with less, healthcare is a great place to apply those skills” Steve Krupa , CEO, Psilos Group On March 11 th , 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

Dramatic advances in life-saving technology often meet decades of delay before word of its availability makes it to behavioral professionals. Device manufacturers typically showcase their new wares in technical or medical rather than behavioral circles.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On the other hand, some telemedicine modalities, such as videoconferencing, entail using digital tools and technologies that may not be equally accessible to all patients," they continued. Providing organizations with necessary financial assistance for implementing telehealth technology. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a hiatus I am returning to my beloved Digital Health Corner. In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. Among them is drug addiction. Digital technology use in the addiction space is not a new concept. Drug addiction affects all age groups.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Addiction is a disease of isolation. Will members have sufficient technology or broadband access? ? "Beyond the technology solution, we had to revamp many of our operational processes – such as the script for our call center, our clinical intake flow, our protocol for toxicology screens and onboarding paperwork for members.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), opioid misuse started in the late 1990s when pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers. from 2016 through 2017, which led to HHS declaring a public health emergency in 2017. History of opioid crisis.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 20, 2022

Synchronous telehealth occurs when real-time technology allows the patient or client to interact with a practitioner using a telephone or video connection — or a combination of both. Reading Time: 3 minutes Synchronous Telehealth. Interactive educational computer programs. Chat rooms. Asynchronous Telehealth.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Opioid crisis: Concerns about opioid addiction are driving the search for non-opioid pain management solutions. Technological advancements: New technologies offer more personalised, data-driven, and effective pain management strategies. Affordability and access to new technologies remain a barrier for some patients.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

In many ways, this new model act has similarities to other model acts proposed by various behavioral health regulatory associations. It would need to be adopted by individual boards by states or territories before affording additional rights to professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

The awards, determined by public voting, are bestowed on "inspiring senior healthcare executives who rigorously challenge the status quo in their journeys to build a brighter health future," according to HIMSS (the parent company of Healthcare IT News). Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. New York City.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Two years later, the IOM identified objectives for educational reform for physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurses, and other allied health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and addiction specialists (IOM HPES 2003). Couples, Marriage & Family Therapy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. "CHC/SEK serves a rural, underserved area in Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma," said Leah Gagnon, director of patient engagement at Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A recently published study of clinicians’ mass exposure to telehealth during the COVID pandemic was published in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. ” They then asked, “Are you avoiding technology based on your evaluation of the empirical research or your own worries about using it?

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Anyone who’s faced addiction personally or professionally knows that it’s different from treating appendicitis or a sprained ankle. Their addiction may have impacted their employment, finances and healthcare coverage; when they do have insurance, it may not cover costly treatment options. Bringing Virtual Care to Isolated Addicts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 27, 2020

UPIC Health, which provides administrative revenue cycle and patient engagement support to healthcare clients, now is offering telehealth services for free to women who live in New York and New Jersey. In the future, she hopes to partner with community health centers who could connect their patients with UPIC's services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and Colin’s 2024 Healthcare IT Predictions And now, check out our community’s Health Equity predictions.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 16, 2019

ABSTRACT The application of behavioral economics principles in healthcare has been transformed through the use of technology and recently the advent of video gaming concepts, or gamification, to modify patient behaviors. Principles of behavioral economics transcend many industries, including healthcare.(1)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Patients are embracing the notion of monitoring their health every day, but health systems aren’t , John Lynn discovered in a chat with Rich Steinle and Scott Pradels at Carium. Read more… Understanding Social Determinants of Health.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2022

HIMSS has released its 2022 Future of Healthcare Report , and survey results suggest that payers and providers look at big technology companies differently. According to the survey of 35 health systems, while 36% of appointment slots are available via online scheduling, only 6% of appointments were booked online. News and Studies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

While many articles describe how patient gateways and portals can better serve the medical community, this article will also discuss behavioral health, substance use, and mental health applications. Personalized Health Education and Resources An informed patient is an empowered patient.

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