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More hybrid virtual care and asynchronous telemedicine on the way for 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. Telemedicine is too important now to take for granted. What is one of the most important telemedicine predictions you have for 2024?

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

House Committee on Ways and Means passed six pieces of legislation that would bolster telehealth in the U.S. One of our top priorities on this Committee is helping every American access health care in the community where they live, work, and raise a family,” Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) Yesterday, the U.S.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Most Americans See Rise of Mental Health Issues, And Poorly Treated by the Health System (with a postscript on Walmart Health)

Health Populi

Gallup and West Health conducted the study in early February 2024 among 2,266 U.S. And it’s important to call out that older people typically deal with more chronic (physical) health conditions than younger people do, so the lack of integrating mental with physical health services (especially in primary care) is concerning.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. Permanently allow health centers and rural health clinics to provide telehealth services.

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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By 2024, analysts expect the United States to be at a deficit of as many as 31,000 psychiatrists. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists.