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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020.

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Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telepsychiatry plays a critical role in improving access to mental health care, with over one in three outpatient visits being delivered by telehealth, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (for example, 35% and 38% of outpatient visits were over telehealth for depression or anxiety, respectively). ” he said.

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Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telepsychiatry plays a critical role in improving access to mental health care, with over one in three outpatient visits being delivered by telehealth, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (for example, 35% and 38% of outpatient visits were over telehealth for depression or anxiety, respectively). ” he said.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

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While safety outcomes and health care organizations’ “safety cultures” are improving, there is evidence in the U.S. that people — both patients and the health care workforce — feel less safe, discussed in Safety in Healthcare 2024 from Press Ganey. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. In 2018, consumers’ tracking of at least one health metric crossed over from an analog method to digital tracking, illustrated in the line chart.

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

Walgreens launched Find Care Now in 2018. Jasper’s data ecosystem complements the patient’s clinical data on the psycho-social side of the person – that is, “real life.” Patients can track nutrition and food intake, mood and mental health, financial issues, transportation, and activity (such as steps).

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Patients have ambitious health goals, and look to doctors for help

Health Populi

Sleep, too, or lack thereof, is top-of-mind for so many consumers: there was a growing category of sleep-assisting digital health tools featured at the 2018 CES, which I covered here in the Huffington Post. One-third of people cite mental health as a goal, closely followed by improving finances.