Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

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. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2023

"Patients were roomed by a nurse at one of our offices where the telemedicine equipment was already set up, and our providers would be at another one of our offices or possibly working from home," he continued. "When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

Horizon Health Services. When launching its telehealth program in October 2019, Horizon Health Services , one of the largest providers of mental health and substance use disorder treatment in Western New York, only planned to have a few dozen of its providers use the platform to see existing patients. Northwell Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The pharmacy is all these things, and increasingly digital-first, we learn in The Rx Report: A new day in retail pharmacy , a consumer survey from CVS Health. CVS Health, one of the two largest pharmacies operating in the U.S. in 2021 along with Walgreens, worked with Morning Consult to poll 2,210 U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Inpatient admissions for mental health increased 60% from 2016 to 2021, while ED admissions increased 20%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. The program will deploy nurses trained in the field of social determinants of health from the AllianceRx Walgreens Prime network, who will reach out to Highmark members that opt-in to the pilot. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. economy, not just in the health care economy.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. I’ve returned to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. As the letter outlines, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the DEA waived the prior in-person evaluation requirement for patients being prescribed controlled substances via telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's, like many other healthcare organizations, saw an uptick in mental health patients during the pandemic, it knew it needed to act fast to meet their needs – and be able to ensure continuity of care for patients, even for those who contracted COVID-19, while keeping the organization's providers and employees safe.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 28, 2023

The document describes five expert proposals and a possible clinical-organizational process for the integration of Digital Therapeutics across depression care pathways in the Italian national health service, formulated by a multistakeholder panel coordinated by Alberta M.C.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

A 2021 Healthy Minds Network study of college student mental health found that 34 percent of respondents had anxiety disorder and 41 percent reported depression. Wade, there were barriers and persistent inequities in women’s+ health and a need to ensure greater availability of care to college women+.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It has infused A$114 million ($88 million) more funding for this purpose under the 2021-22 Budget. million ($42 million) to extend the provision of subsidised mental health support to December 2022; A$41.2 The latest telehealth budget is part of a A$308.6 It includes the following: A$58.8

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 23, 2023

There have been a number of early successes using ChatGPT in healthcare such as Stanford Byers Center for BioDesign's HealthGPT application, Woebot a mental health chatbot and a chatbot designed to assist doctors in prescribing antibiotics. In 2021, researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital developed a chatbot called "Dr.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?” I welcomed the opportunity to speak (via Zoom, of course) with Ron Emerson, Zoom’s Global Healthcare Lead, just a days before HIMSS 2021 kicked off.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. Community and inpatient resources for mental health care are dwindling. This mental health crisis can have big implications for your health system, including: Increased length of stay.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists. right now have no mental healthcare providers at all.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

The application window starts this week at noon ET, Thursday, April 29, 2021, and closes a week later, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. GlobalMed Provides Support to Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations for $250M FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Funding was first posted on April 26, 2021 at 2:17 pm.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. population health burden.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 13, 2023

Exec Summary: The five funding trends for Telehealth in 2023 are 1) Gastrointestinal care 2) Mental health 3) Weight management 4) Women's health 5) Wound care. billion in 2021. In May 2023, Ginger, a US-based mental health telehealth company, raised $100 million in Series D funding. billion by 2027.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I retired from my position in Wisconsin with community mental health in 2020 amid the pandemic. The process started at the beginning of 2021, and by September 2021, I started with the clinic in Missouri. We do PHQ-9s and AIMs, and then the nurse scans it so that I can see everything. She knows my routine.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s expected to worsen in the coming months. Community and inpatient resources for mental healthcare are dwindling. This mental health crisis can have big implications for your health system, including: Increased length of stay.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 12, 2021

Providing a quick high-level overview of the recent updates, all payors have extended their telehealth flexibilities to at least the end of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is currently set to end on January 20 th , 2021. Extended current telehealth flexibilities until further notice. Medicare: No Changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2023

” In a press briefing, the HIMSS CEO said attendance for this year’s event is 35,000 – less than 2019 but a significant increase from 2021 and 2022. Wolf also briefly discussed how HIMSS would continue to invest in emerging markets and build its ongoing relationship with the World Health Organization.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? alone is predicted to hit more than $40 billion by 2021.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. Community and inpatient resources for mental health care are dwindling. This mental health crisis can have big implications for your health system, including: Increased length of stay.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

It invites users to select a mental health plan of services from its homepage for $5.83 In 2021, the company merged with Ginger, an online mental health platform, in a deal that led to the valuation of the combined company at $3 billion. Headspace offers services directly to consumers as well as to employers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

The report also cited a 50% increase in breaches from 2022 as compared to 2021. Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. Behavioral health program provider United We Care launched its mental health and wellness coaching program in the United States.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 29, 2023

billion in 2021. In the future, AI is expected to play an even greater role in healthcare, helping to improve diagnosis and treatment, and freeing up doctors and nurses to focus on more complex tasks. According to Dealroom, the total investment in the Scandinavian healthtech sector in 2022 was $10.6 billion, down from $14.4

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JANUARY 20, 2021

Nurse triage and telemedicine. While people have not completely moved away from concerns about face-to-face interactions, nurse triage hotlines and other telemedicine services can relieve the burden and remediate the impending effects of deferred care. Thu, 01/21/2021 - 01:16. page.inman. LEAVE A COMMENT.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 8, 2023

Northwell Holdings, the for-profit venture investment arm of Northwell Health, works with doctors, scientists, staff, and entrepreneurs both in and out of the health system to advance the commercial potential for internal innovation and development of commercial joint ventures.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Kroger Health (part of the Kroger food chain) has several partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans, including Select Health (part of Intermountain Health) and Priority Health in Michigan , and began to work with Anthem (now Elevance) in 2021. How Instacart and Mom’s Meals are addressing food-as-medicine.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2021

healthcare system — overused, over-stressed, under-paid, detailed n How Health Systems Can Care for Caregivers , published in the NEJM Catalyst July 2021 issue. Remote monitoring is utilized by 1 in 5 health care leaders. Staffing is the top barrier to addressing caregiver needs.

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