Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Pregnancy-related maternal mortality Mental health conditions are the leading cause of pregnancy-related maternal mortality due to suicide and drug overdose. "Care is further fragmented across health systems where past screening and treatment information is not available to current providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2021

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. " Margo Brooks, Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” “Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits.

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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

JUNE 3, 2021

HIMSS this week has unveiled the list of the first recipients of its 2021 HIMSS Changemaker Awards. President, Emirates Nursing Association. In the United Arab Emirates, she established the Nursing Informatics Society at the nationwide level. Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. They are: Aysha Al Mahri.

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

state made changes to their telehealth licensure rules for physicians and other healthcare clinicians. Although some of these changes were only temporary and have been dropped since the beginning of the pandemic, other changes have been made permanent or are still active given the increased utilization and popularity of Telehealth.

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. Cook County Health.

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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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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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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. The telehealth industry has seen a significant increase in funding in recent years, with the global market size expected to reach $634.7 billion in 2021.

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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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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

GWI identified nine major wellness trends for 2021: Hollywood and the entertainment industries jumping into wellness. The future of immune health. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. 2021 as the year of the travel-reset. But back to mental health, because it is indeed the epidemic within the pandemic.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 12, 2021

As we enter the new year we are seeing numerous payor telehealth policy changes, and therefore we have made several updates to the Virtual Visit Billing Guides for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. The federal PHE can only be extended 90 days at a time, and therefore may very well extend past January 20 th , 2021. National Payors.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 26, 2021

GlobalMed, a telehealth industry leader, announced today their support of a $250M COVID-19 telehealth funding program offered by the FCC to eligible nonprofit and public health care providers. The application window starts this week at noon ET, Thursday, April 29, 2021, and closes a week later, on Thursday, May 6, 2021.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

in this moment, here’s a huge consensus for Americans on a single issue in 2021. The survey was fielded in June 2021 among 1,071 U.S. Integrating with the telehealth service Care on the Optum Store. during the pandemic’s growing roster of contact-less health care companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"When the temporary order from the government to allow telehealth was announced, that gave agency providers hope that they could still provide services to the families they serve, while not financially draining them," said Sheila Hunt, the chief managed care officer at OLV Human Services. "The telehealth platform doxy.me

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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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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Routine visits, orthopedics, follow-up visits, mental health and other health services partook in the proverbial virtual care banquet. We need to re-evaluate our mindset and thinking about telehealth. In the data, we see some positive signs of how the market is still adapting to telehealth.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. population health burden.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

As examples of this, Steve pointed to three CES attendees’ products that speak to self-care empowerment: For telehealth and remote patient management (RPM), Essence’s VitalOn. As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Withings’ FDA-cleared smartwatch as a health/care wearable technology.

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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. I thought maybe I should check into telehealth. The process started at the beginning of 2021, and by September 2021, I started with the clinic in Missouri. How does telehealth compare to in-person care?

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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. NextGen announced that clients using NextGen Population Health achieved an average of $9 million in savings in 2021 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program MSSP.

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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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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. Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health.

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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. Telehealth: Telehealth is the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical care remotely.

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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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