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Service Dogs Can Help Veterans With PTSD and Anxiety: Study

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million Americans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD, a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening traumatic event, is a complex condition and can be hard to treat. As many as 1 in 5 of the roughly 2.7

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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only been a crisis in terms of the virus itself, but a chronic burden of physical and mental health onus on clinicians on the front-line of care, and their families. our empathy, love and appreciation go out to the heroic front-line health care workers in all generations, from 9/11 to COVID-19.

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Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care

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health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. published in 2001. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S. Kleinke noted in his book titled Oxymorons ….published

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Telehealth Law: Healthcare Translation Services for Limited English Proficient People (Case Study)

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In the 2001 repor t, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed a strategy to improve the US healthcare system. Identifying six aims, the report outlined the need for healthcare to be safe , effective , patient-centered , timely , efficient , and equitable.

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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

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Right on their heels is Gen Z, born between 2001 and 2020, the largest population segment in the U.S. High Need for Mental Healthcare. The rise in mental health conditions alongside COVID-19 is being billed a dual pandemic. Likewise, mental health among Millennials is declining steadily.

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Should Graduate Schools Teach Telehealth Competency?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A 2001 Institute of Medicine report highlighted the shortcomings of healthcare professional training and ongoing proficiency assessment to enhance patient care and safety (IOM, 2001). They recommend that the mental health field adopt telehealth competency-based education for TBH services. Institute of Medicine.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 2001 to 2014, deaths due to overdoses in the USA were noted as: 8 fold increase due to prescription drugs. We are all aware of the opioid epidemic and the human destruction in its wake. However statistics have an impact that reaches beyond qualitative descriptions.