Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Spectrum.Life , a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, employees, and students is pleased to announce the successful completion of a €5 million raise, resulting in a total of €9 million raised for the company.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). Controversial since its announcement in 2020, the requirement was codified as part of the 2023 Physician’s Fee Schedule.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2023

As most Americans confess to feeling stressed over the past six months, peoples’ food and beverage choices have been intimately connected with their mental and emotional well-being, we learn from the 2023 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Andy took a deep dive into LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights , which takes steps to provide more granular data by drawing on non-traditional data sources and evaluating data in the context of a patient’s environment. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : 2023 Health IT Recap.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2023

But seven of the remaining eight all address health somewhere in their discussions, and even the tenth non-obvious tech — #3, sustainable aviation fuel — would resonate with many researchers working on the opportunity for health care in space (notably my favorite person working on this, Dr. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. With the market downturns we’ve seen in 2022, that trend will shift.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2023

Read more… Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Read more… Hearing From Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill. Read more… RPM Can Reduce AI’s Bias Problem and Improve Health Equity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. The community ethos bolsters social cohesion and mental health.

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. With the PHE ending on May 11, 2023, some Telehealth policy changes will remain permanent, while others will end in May or later this year. Two areas that saw growth in digital health include behavioral and mental health services.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After years of federal controversy and conjecture, the White House announced Monday that the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies (PHE) will end on May 11. The official announcement is a significant signal of the end of the pandemic’s crisis phase. Approval of additional providers for behavioral telehealth.

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Mend

APRIL 4, 2023

As we head closer to the public health emergency (PHE) end date of May 11, 2023, providers must prepare for changes. After December 31, 2024, these sites can no longer offer virtual visits relating to non-behavioral/mental health care. More changes to telehealth policy may come in 2023 and 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The aspirational document sets out the mission that “every individual deserves the right to obtain health care that is comprehensive, equitable and compassionate.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Physician Burnout & Depression Report for 2023 calls out. It is safe to generalize that most physicians felt burned out by late 2022: burn out impacted physicians in public health and prevention, pathology, cardiology, nephrology and other specialties but still hit at least 37% of practicing doctors in those fields.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 21, 2021

Yvette Dzumaga, is an MD/MBA specialising in psychiatry, who focuses on behavioural health and characterising market trends. Though the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over, there’s a "second pandemic" already looming large in the form of a mental health crisis. Using the ONS and Mind’s estimate of 5.34

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services said it would temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities for the prescription of certain controlled medications granted under the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is set to expire on May 11.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. Primary care EHR vendor Elation Health acquired Lightning MD , a cloud-based billing and claims management company.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s a lot — and has made a huge difference in public health access for those enrolled in ACA plans. First comes emergency services, followed by prescription drugs, hospital inpatient care, and then preventive services and chronic disease management followed by mental health and substance use disorder services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2023

” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin. AARP is in fact a very visible stakeholder in the 2023 CES, collaborating on the AgeTech content track at the tech conference. Consider this the digital transformation of heart health, from our hands and homes to hospitals and back home again.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

After receiving more than 38,000 public comments, the Drug Enforcement Administration is extending the telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications beyond the end of the public health emergency on May 11. New York FQHC Urban Health Plan implemented eClinicalWorks EHR and healow.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 15, 2024

Mental Health and Wellbeing: Increased awareness and stigma reduction around mental health are likely, with sessions on mental health services and support systems. Global Health Challenges: Collaboration on tackling global health issues like pandemics and antibiotic resistance will be a key takeaway.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Although 90% of American believe that the country is in a mental health crisis, treatment rates across all payors are low. Workforce challenges impact access to mental health care for almost half of US citizens. One hundred fifty-eight million people, or 47%, live in a mental health shortage area.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2023

” The polycrisis is this moment of many moving parts/challenges and emotions: as Gallup’s latest poll (March 2023) on what Americans say are the most important problems facing the U.S. in March 2023, these were: The government/poor leadership (20% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Lower income earners face an “uphill battle” when it comes to their mental health, GWI found. times more likely to say they have depression, also facing an under-supply of mental health providers. Furthermore, rural Americans were 1.5 is seen as likely among a growing consensus of economists).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint. The investor General Catalyst has partnered with over 20 health systems in the past few years, learning along the way.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the food sector, “the opportunity for us and the role that we play is to connect climate and health,” Daniella Vega of Ahold Delhaize told Valerio Baselli during the Morningstar Sustainable Investing Summit 2023. Global Change Research Program. This Program convenes 13 U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The White House recently announced a two-year extension for telehealth waivers, but higher telehealth coverage for physicians and hospitals is only approved through the end of 2023. Medicare added over 100 billing codes for the duration of the public health emergency. When a service is performed in a facility (e.g.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.*

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Initially implemented at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Omaha, Nebraska, the program expanded in 2023 to provide digital solutions for care coordination at all Nebraska clinics that participate in the state’s HIE and use the PointClickCare platform.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The ultimate objective is to authorize telemedicine practices under conditions that align with public health and safety and provide adequate controls against drug diversion.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Research has been mounting in support of prescribing psychedelic medications to treat various mental health and substance use disorders, including treatment-resistant depression, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, traumatic brain injury, and opioid addiction. EHRs designed to support ketamine treatments.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 11, 2023

The ultimate objective is to authorize telemedicine practices under conditions that align with public health and safety and provide adequate controls against drug diversion.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On October 8, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule. CMS finalized many of its telehealth services proposals and immediate steps following the end of the public health emergency (PHE). Set to end in January 2023.,

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

The first bill of note is the 2023 update to the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act, which, among other telehealth expansions, will permanently remove the in-person requirement for behavioral health clients and patients receiving Medicare.*

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? Add to that scenario a growing consensus for a likely recession in 2023. How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? Health care utilization declined due to patients foregoing, rather than delaying, care.

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