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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff would offer Zoom telehealth capabilities for medical and mental health patients. Regarding mental health, Zoom was the easier platform to implement, since there were multiple licensure capabilities. "Implementation with Zoom started with our mental health department," he said. MARKETPLACE.

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Bonus Features – May 28, 2023 – 20+ health systems pledge to use Epic to share info under TEFCA, 84x increase in telehealth for mental health from 2019 to 2022, and more

Healthcare IT Today

News and Studies Nearly two dozen health systems have pledged to use Epic to share health information through the TEFCA framework , the EHR vendor announced, adding, “Our plan is to deliver software this year that will help our customers to be among the initial participants in TEFCA.”

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How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harbor is a nonprofit mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider based in Toledo, Ohio, that has been addressing community needs for more than 100 years. We designated each of these rooms as a ‘resource’ in the EHR that was directly linked to the scheduled service.

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Bonus Features – May 19, 2024 – Nearly 70% of hospitals plan to deploy RFID and RTLS technology in the next 5 years, mental health claims up 83% since before the pandemic, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Overall mental health claims are up 83% since 2019 , according to a recent LexisNexis Risk Solutions report. Care navigation company Quantum Health expanded its specialty pharmacy services. In addition, Florida-based Atlantis Orthopedics selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow. for dermatology.

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" RESULTS Telehealth visits helped Oak Orchard Health keep patient visits up in 2020. Following is the number of patients seen via telemedicine per year: 2018, 0 2019, 55 2020, 17,975 2021, 7,688 2022, 5,690 ADVICE FOR OTHERS "Telehealth is the norm for us now," Kinter said.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.