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Why Having Pets is Good for Your Mental Health? Top 5 Reasons

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

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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How COVID-19 Is Driving More Deaths of Despair

Health Populi

due to suicide, accidents and drug overdoses first observed by Case and Deaton in a seminal 2015 paper, “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century.” Integrate mental health with health care. “H”ispanics.

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Team members looked back at the total number of in-person and telehealth visits from 2015 through 2020. Researchers calculated that greenhouse gas emissions from patient travel due to transportation for primary care, specialty care and mental health visits fell from 19,659 tons CO2-eq in 2019 to 10,537 tons CO2-eq in 2020.

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Teladoc Shares Plunge as Competition Mounts

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Teladoc went public in 2015, launching primary, urgent, and mental health care through BetterHelp, its mental health services. . These companies include: Amazon Care – negotiating a $4 billion acquisition deal with One Medical, a primary care provider in the telehealth space.

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How to Treat Geriatric Populations in Health Systems

Iris Telehealth

According to the World Health Organization , approximately 15% of adults aged 60 and over have a mental health condition. However, less than 3% of older adults receive treatment from mental health professionals. The state of mental health and aging.

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Carbon Health Secures Series D Investment to Drive Primary and Urgent Care Expansion

Healthcare IT Today

Carbon Health , a hybrid healthcare company that combines expert care with proprietary technology for easy everyday health, announced today that it has received $100 million from CVS Health Ventures, CVS Health’s corporate venture capital platform, as part of an initial close of its Series D round.

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare. ” “Canvas has enabled us to get our care delivery operations up and running much faster and with far less resourcing than we possibly could have done with any other EMR,” said Chris Hogg, founder and CEO of Marley Medical , a virtual primary care clinic. “As

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