Iris Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In 2020, it was reported that over 19% of this population experienced a mental health condition. Although many individuals in these populations require treatment, the majority of Native Americans reside in rural areas where access to mental health services is severely limited.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is no secret that the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis due to aggravated conditions from the pandemic exacerbated by of a shortage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists. As many as 80% of individuals seeking mental health treatment in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns. Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.)

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Lloyd Price

MAY 18, 2024

Exec Summary: TeleHealth 1.0 is Generalist TeleHealth , TeleHealth 2.0 is Specialist TeleHealth. The focus is shifting towards TeleHealth that offers a more specialised and tailored approach to patient care. There's been a lot of talk about the decline of TeleHealth recently. Telehealth 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. Youth Mental Health Crisis Mental health has long been a neglected area of healthcare, particularly when it comes to children and teenagers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. " Sandy Hall, Lighthouse Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients. Staff would offer Zoom telehealth capabilities for medical and mental health patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

A new report from PwC looks at peoples’ changes in health behaviors in the first two months of the pandemic, asking whether these changes will stick “after” the pandemic fades. But feeling isolated was surely the most impacted health risk, as the dotted line in the first chart graphs. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Castlight published the full research findings in April in the company’s 2022 Workforce Health Index. The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Baker enacted an emergency order requiring insurers to cover telehealth in order to help ensure provider and patient safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth out of necessity. The risk of infection from face-to-face clinical interactions forced health providers to give their patients alternative channels to receive care, making virtual visits commonplace.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“This surge of people experiencing acute behavioral health problems…has the potential to further impact the healthcare system for years to come,” a report from McKinsey expects looking at the hidden costs of COVID-19’s impact on U.S. health care. could have a behavioral health need in 2021.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2023

Ensuring patients with a mental health diagnosis get the best short-term care possible after their hospital visit is essential. In fact, clinical best practices and various guidelines recommend that 100% of patients leaving the ED with a behavioral health diagnosis should receive follow-up within the first seven days.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

adults had a telehealth visit, down from 45% the year before. Telehealth visits were most common for follow-ups from prior medical appointments, primary or preventive care, and behavioral health or counseling — with this category of visits growing by 6 percentage points from 2022 to 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. ” "We were delivering roughly 1,800 telehealth visits per day.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997. As such, the team has been involved in digital health financing and innovation for 24 years, well before the kind of platforms, APIs, and cloud computing now enabling telehealth and care, everywhere.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. Health equity is a burning issue in healthcare today. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 15, 2023

Despite the proven efficacy of behavioral health interventions such as behavioral activation (BA) for treating depression (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice, 2006), these services still tend to be underutilized by SSLs). What is LatinX?

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 9, 2022

Science supports that owning a pet can be good for your mental health. According to some studies [1] dogs can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, encourage exercise, and improve human health. But what do pets do to contribute to some good impact on our mental health? Let’s check out these top five reasons.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation. Achieving health equity, bringing mental health services to all who need them, ideally at parity with physical health services.

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Iris Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

While many hospitals and health systems aim to provide value-based care for their community, it’s not always possible given the large spectrum of patients that come through their doors. So, how can hospitals and health systems jumpstart their journey towards providing value-based care?

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Pertinent to CTA’s larger stakeholder community, areas of the home such as connected kitchens and cooking at home, smart bathrooms, the growing sleep category, and even connected cars are all taking on health and wellness features to meet the evolving home as peoples’ personal health hubs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Over the last few years, Medicare Advantage plans have dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth systems for seniors. While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

Finding behavioral health providers can be challenging for hospitals and health systems across the country. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 47% of people live in a mental health provider shortage area. He says, “For Allina, virtual care is here to stay.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Barriers of every type fell and, for once, providers and patients were equalized in their need and desire for virtual care. Routine visits, orthopedics, follow-up visits, mental health and other health services partook in the proverbial virtual care banquet. That thinking is dangerous, almost lazy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Virtual care, for example, has become an essential part of healthcare delivery. Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. Today, virtual care has taken its place as a mainstay of the U.S. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

"Prior to the pandemic, telehealth wasn't really taking off all that much; it was kind of a very long, slow growth without a high level of adoption," said Fisne of Geisinger. "But when we were able to move our technology to the point of advancing home health initiatives, we've actually seen it take off.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especially for mental health. In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication.

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