InTouch Health

APRIL 2, 2020

Advancing the Reaches of Telehealth. Several major health crises forced the industry to reconsider the status quo, leading to sweeping changes throughout the United States’ health system. After the 2008 Recession, many middle-aged and older Americans struggled with addiction and overdose. The Opioid Crisis.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced its long-awaited proposal for permanent rules regarding telehealth prescriptions for controlled medications. They explained their focus on expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the May 11 end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health. Can you see yourself?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With the COVID public health emergency (PHE) scheduled to end on May 11, 2023, the issue of prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine and telehealth has taken center stage. 1 Quoted in a press release published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Lauren Tanz, Sc.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS In aiming to prevent drug diversion by telehealth, DEA misses the point of the gains made by telehealth during the pandemic , says ATA. ATA is also concerned that the "telehealth stamp" on legitimate prescriptions has already resulted in a rise of denials at the pharmacy counter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Since the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared in 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed the legislation every 90 days. She says that a reversal would limit digital health access, which an overly burdened and understaffed industry has come to rely on. What's at stake.

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