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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health

Health Populi

employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. But a telehealth encounter was seen as more convenient than an office visit by 56% of older people.

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A Year Into COVID19, Mental Health Impacts Heavier on Moms Than Dads in America

Health Populi

felt worry or stress related to the coronavirus that had a negative impact on their mental health. But the mental health impacts of COVID in America aren’t felt evenly or homogeneously across all U.S. health citizens. In the summer of 2020, four months into the pandemic, one-half of people living in the U.S.

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Telehealth helps stop suicidal ideation for many patients, study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Recently, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published some significant data highlighting the efficacy of psychiatric care delivered through telehealth: Those in the treatment group were 4.3 We spoke with Winsberg to get an in-depth look at this study and what the results mean for the future of telehealth and mental healthcare.

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The Growing Pet Economy – What It Means for Human Health, Well-Being, and Healthcare Costs

Health Populi

The report reviews the literature which has already recognized the link between pet ownership and improved health conditions and outcomes for pet owners, documenting the growth of pet ownership int he U.S. through the pandemic during which one-sixth of pet owners obtained a new pet. bn savings attributable to obesity reduction, s1.8

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Grow Your Practice Through Telehealth

Continue Education Journal

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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The Future of Telemedicine Transformed by Large Language Models

Healthcare IT Today

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.