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Brightside Health Raises Strategic Series C, Welcomes Trip Hofer to Board of Directors

Healthcare IT Today

Brightside Health serves people with mild to severe clinical depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, including those with elevated suicide risk, through precision psychiatry, clinically proven therapy, and Crisis Care. With this Series C funding, the organization’s leadership continues to chart plans for additional expansions.

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Why (and When) You Should Consider a Virtual Medical Director

Iris Telehealth

Striking the right balance between prioritizing quality patient care and managing everyday leadership tasks is pivotal for healthcare organizations. During my years at Iris, I’ve seen many clinics promote staff members into leadership positions based on seniority rather than on that person having experience in leadership or administration.

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Telehealth helps one hospital reduce ER overflow hours from 1,700 to 148

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Clinical leadership turned to telemedicine technology and services vendor SOC Telemed to help ensure patients have expeditious access to appropriate psychiatric consultation. Since launching tele-psychiatry, the emergency department has reduced length of stay for psychiatric patients by approximately 70%. ” RESULTS.

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Geisinger solves behavioral health access problem with telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MEETING THE CHALLENGE Ultimately, it was the behavioral health leadership team that helped the IT team make progress – taking the leadership role in the development and management of the partnership. As a result, we're able to get people into psychiatry usually within ten days. Click here to read the special report.

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Leading the AMA Through Three Historic Challenges

Healthcare IT Today

Psychiatry. In her tenure as American Medical Association President, Dr Patrice Harris has faced a unique confluence of challenges – physician burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial inequality. Dr. Harris was the 274th President of the AMA, but was the organization’s first African-American woman to hold that position. Her specialty?

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Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

She is a member of the clinical leadership at Done, a platform that connects patients with psychiatric board-certified medical professionals for services including online video consultations , diagnosis, care team support and prescription delivery. She’s board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as adult psychiatry.

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Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.