Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a 17 percent jump in telehealth visits compared with the previous fiscal year, and says the VA delivered more than 2.6 million episodes of telehealth care in FY 2019. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Department of Veterans Affairs and retail giant Walmart have opened the latest location as part of a joint effort help Vets in rural areas get better access to medical services, the first location for a new telehealth pilot program. million video telehealth encounters with more than 490,000 Veterans last year. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

and post-pandemic job growth in 2021, the cost of health insurance premiums rose faster than either the price of goods or wages. That family health plan premium reached $22,221, an increase of 22% since 2016, we learn in the annual report from Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

During a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, Dr. Rachel Levine expressed her support for telemedicine, emphasized the importance of addressing young people's mental health needs and described her strategy for combating the ongoing opioid crisis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). healthcare system.

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American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Telemedicine Today: September 2016. Welcome to the (delayed) September 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! Arkansas Children’s Hospital expects to expand the telehealth program to more than 40 schools by next school year. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Telehealth Program Slashes ER Wait Times. HealthcareITNews.

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2021

For some working Americans, the stress has led to diagnoses of mental health disorders — especially acute among essential workers, shown in the second graphic from the report. parents’ level of anxiety and stress and subsequent impacts on physical and mental health. The APA also looked closely at U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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American Well

JANUARY 24, 2016

Welcome to the the first edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today for 2016! For those new to this feature, we share the telehealth industry’s hottest news, events, legislation, insight and more. 2016 is already shaping up to be another BIG year in the world of Telehealth and Telemedicine. Partnerships Can Mitigate Costs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Isolation has produced an increase in mental health issues, loneliness and depression – and that would be for those who have a good grasp of what is going on – for those in long-term care , for those with dementia, unable to be hugged by family, it is far worse. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. Read more. .

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Two years later, the IOM identified objectives for educational reform for physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurses, and other allied health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and addiction specialists (IOM HPES 2003). Couples, Marriage & Family Therapy.

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The VA Recently Launched a New Telehealth Tablet Program to Increase Veterans’ Access to Care. Suicide, mental health, PTSD, and numerous chronic conditions are common among United States veterans. The VA’s Telehealth Tablet Program. million veterans, serving more than 9 million veterans every year.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For more than a decade, a body of literature has been evolving around the idea of well-being as being more than the absence of a mental health disorder (Dey et al., The presence of psychological well-being is defined by the World Health Organization as the presence of both social and psychological health.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

The Complete Telehealth Guide for Therapists. Have you thought about offering telehealth sessions at your private practice? Given the rising popularity of telehealth in all areas of medicine, the answer is likely yes. What is Telehealth? The Benefits of Telehealth. According to the ONC.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Benefits of Telemedicine to Patients.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Telehealth expands access to care. We know that rural and underserved communities can benefit from strong virtual care programs, but those same communities may have digital connectivity barriers and social determinants of health (SDOH) that stop patients from accessing telemedicine. But expanding broadband access isn’t always enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Jennifer Richman, associate professor of psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center, and Michael Hasselberg, NP, senior director of digital Health at U of Rochester. Moreover, when behavioral or mental health would present at the emergency department, "there were no onsite psychiatric resources," said Hasselberg.

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Mend

MAY 18, 2023

Mend announced today that it has supported its 10 millionth virtual care appointment on its leading patient engagement and telehealth platform. Launched in 2016, the Mend platform has provided healthcare organizations with technology that enables the delivery of patient-centric care across many specialties including mental health.

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SteadyMD

APRIL 7, 2022

Hinds continues, “So instead of taking a class or going to a conference, a physician can now take that time and invest in their own mental health and physical well-being. As healthcare professionals look for ways to care for themselves and their patients, many are turning to telehealth providers to continue to see patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Financial stress is a factor ranking high for people dealing with both mental health challenges and chronic health conditions. Our relationship with our self — “self-worth and purpose” — ranks high, too, for people dealing with a mental health condition. Looking under the 52% of U.S.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 20, 2018

The Complete Telehealth Guide for Therapists. Have you thought about offering telehealth sessions at your private practice? Given the rising popularity of telehealth in all areas of medicine, the answer is likely yes. What is Telehealth? The Benefits of Telehealth. According to the ONC.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The cost of therapy or limitations in the ability of this population to attend face-to-face mental health treatment can often be difficult. Pediatric depression treatment can involve incorporating digitized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) interventions ( Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, n.d. 2016 ; Watts et al.,

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over the past few years, the number of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) has been steadily increasing — passing the 12,000 mark in 2016. Like psychiatrists, all PMHNPs receive training around assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with mental health needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2023

Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. Read more… Lessons Learned from Health IT in the Golden State. Attacks on healthcare have more than double since 2016.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 27, 2018

The School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program is collecting data that supports the feasibility and success of offering real-time telehealth services in rural School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs). Programs began rolling out in 2016-17 school year in accordance with the following plan: Year 1 – Behavioral Health.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

A: I worked in a community mental health center for about a dozen years, and in 2016 I decided to move to the West coast with my family. A: I’m working at a community mental health center in Mississippi, and before, I worked at a community mental health center in person. It just simply happens.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A recently published study of clinicians’ mass exposure to telehealth during the COVID pandemic was published in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. For example, one might expect that telehealth will result in diminished rapport. Design exposures that can test each of these expectancies. screen sharing).

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Enzyme Health

MAY 8, 2019

Numerous studies have been conducted on telehealth programs attempting to identify the value to the healthcare system at large, value to patients, and most importantly, effect on patient outcomes. Rafid Fadul, to help identify recent critical research and empirical evidence supporting telehealth program implementation and outcomes.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 25, 2020

More companies are also expanding their telehealth services, in part a direct result of the pandemic. While this may not save them money in the short-term — most insurers are currently reimbursing the same for telehealth visits as in-office visits — in the long term, it is expected to reduce costs.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 6, 2021

Over the past few years, the number of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) has been steadily increasing — passing the 12,000 mark in 2016. Like psychiatrists, all PMHNPs receive training around assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with mental health needs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%. The second graphic, labeled Figure 3, compares national health spending as a share of U.S. Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 28, 2023

Interestingly, the telehealth literature has not generally reported the phenomenon as a widespread issue until COVID-19. This blog post also introduces a new series of articles focused on how to make your telehealth experience easier, more enjoyable, and more productive. Do you know where you can go to get more specific directions?

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system saw an unprecedented surge in virtual care. Indiana University Health. Gundersen Health System.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016 at CES, I spoke with Ranndy about the company’s project #GoingforZero, a public health education campaign aiming for “zero” incidence of stroke. Cardiac health has a growing evidence base for digital health tech, IQVIA pointed out in their recent study on The Growing Value of Digital Health.

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