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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency?

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

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Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

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Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012. Add in the lengthening pandemic, growing variants of the virus, and supply constraints of inpatient settings in many health care markets, and this already-shaky pillar of the Quadruple Aim is weakened by the public health crisis.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

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At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health. The Affordable Care Act and health insurance exchanges were in chaos, and who to turn to?

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

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When discussing healthcare waiting lists and clinicians’ shortages the public often focuses mainly on a need to increase the supply of clinicians, nurses and other allied healthcare practitioners. 2021 [6] Regina M.