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7 Mistakes You’re Making with Mental Health Telehealth

TheraNest

In our digital age, telehealth has become an invaluable tool for mental and behavioral health providers to reach and support a larger population of individuals in need. Telehealth is a great way to reach clients beyond your physical borders and can even help you find people in mental health deserts.

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How one health system moved 85% of its services via telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Preferred Behavioral Health Group, based in Lakewood, New Jersey, is a multi-site outpatient behavioral health organization providing adult mental health services, youth and family services, and substance use services. New Jersey at that time did not allow telehealth services for healthcare.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The health system faced patient, staff education, infrastructure and reimbursement challenges. Within that training, staff members found that they needed to give their patients peace of mind as well as comfort. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Mastering Mental Health Intake Forms in 2023

Mend

Discover the best practices for collecting mental health intake forms in 2023. Mental health intake forms furnish essential information for providers and care teams. Care teams use mental health intake forms to obtain a patient’s medical history, current symptoms, and other pertinent data in order to deliver patient care.

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Another problem we had was with the number of solutions we were using," noted Jody McCloud Missmer, behavioral health network administrator, St. Luke's University Health Network. Luke's decided on telehealth vendor Amwell and the digital health subsidiary of Amwell, SilverCloud Health.

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Achieving the Vision of Healthcare’s Future

Healthcare IT Today

AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions. ” Certainly, it’s no good stored in a spreadsheet somewhere, or even a field in an EHR.

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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.” services, using free, individual accounts.