BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 22, 2019

Physician burnout is a public health issue that “urgently demands action” from the rest of the healthcare industry, according to a report from Harvard University and Massachusetts trade groups. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

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. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. One of the most compelling telehealth access scenarios in the first months of pandemic will be told by consumers accessing virtual care for teletherapy and counseling.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

PwC included this table documenting that care went mostly virtual in March 2020, as providers quickly scaled up. ” Another COVID-19 impact that both bolstered demand and revealed unmet patient needs has been mental health – which I’ve characterized as the pandemic after the pandemic here in Health Populi. .”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In October 2020, The American Cancer Society explained that patients were postponing care, which also drove up peoples’ anxiety in dealing with their health and daily lives. Across all categories — note the mental health appointments avoided — a majority or large plurality of patients felt they needed to get that care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Public health, prevention and personalized medicine = $375 billion. Mental wellness = $131 billion. “Imagine if product designers worked with psychologists to prioritize mental health” from the ideation stage of consumer-facing technology development, they imagined. .” Spas = $68 billion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

Although research supported the efficacy of video telepsychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health-funded study notes, only 5% of psychiatrists in the Medicare program had ever provided a telemedicine visit. About a third of the interviewed psychiatrists were mostly using the telephone for sessions, Uscher-Pines said.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Neighborhood Health CIO Anthony Villanueva about enabling a grassroots approach to care by giving care teams NextGen mobile technology to document encounters well beyond the clinical setting. Read more… Taking Social Determinants of Health to New Heights.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

In response, CMS has approved an unprecedented COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expansion of Medicare payment for telehealth services. The new indicator has been developed to assist Medicare beneficiaries in finding appropriate providers due to the high demand for providers offering telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

That said, as a large primary care office offering integrated behavioral health, it was important to expand mental health services to include specialty care for patients. Further, as a federally qualified health center, River Valley is charged with providing comprehensive, whole-person care. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. 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.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 1, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the second leading cause of preventable death among 15 to 29-year-olds globally. However, regardless of age, gender, occupation, race, or ethnicity, suicide can affect anyone; and is recognized as both a mental health and public health issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

News and Research With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances , with only buprenorphine and Schedule III-V non-narcotic controlled medications available via telemedicine, and available only in 30-day supplies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Some specialties, such as mental health, may find stronger footing via virtual visits. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. ” The report read. " “Some private insurers stepped in to help, too,” they added.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. The shift to digital solutions has also been marked in mental health services. Mobile phone apps for mental health management have seen a global surge in popularity under lockdown.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Reeya Patel, Vice President of Healthcare Insights at Azalea Health, points out that a televisit can document that a follow-up appointment has been scheduled, a request for a medication took place, or a referral to a specialist has occurred, all for billing purposes. Improved workflows. In the opinion of many experts, the reason U.S.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

APRIL 23, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the second leading cause of preventable death among 15 to 29-year-olds globally. However, regardless of age, gender, occupation, race, or ethnicity, suicide can affect anyone; and is recognized as both a mental health and public health issue.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 10, 2023

One solution to this deadly problem , according to public health advocates, combines modern information technology with an effective form of addiction treatment. Thanks to the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration, telehealth use skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

With my public health hat on, I assert that smoking cessation is good for everyone (except perhaps for tobacco companies’ bottom lines). These vibrations help calm the nervous system, the science of which is documented in this research article demonstrating a reduction in 70% of stress in as few as 30 seconds of use.

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Continue Education Journal

MAY 28, 2021

Listed below are the current waiver statuses of each state (as of May 28, 2021): State Status Changes (if applicable) Alabama Active – end date TBD – A physician can provide an Alabama resident TeleHealth services as long as the physician holds either a full license or a license to practice across state lines Alaska Active – end date (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. With the appropriate safeguards in place, and clinicians at the helm driving decisions that require reasoning, judgment and empathy, AI is going to have a very big place in mental healthcare. How can telebehavioral health help?

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Iris Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It’s a combination of calling and doing doc-to-doc reports, seeing the patients, documenting, and some collateral phone calls. I came from a background in community mental health. It wasn’t a for-profit, private practice environment that I came from – it was from public health.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 12, 2018

Psych Central is the terrific mental health community mentioned by “Doc Tom” Ferguson in the e-Patient White Paper, the founding document of our Society. (At Others come from cultures in which seeking professional help for mental health problems is considered a sign or weakness or instability.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. 2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S. Nebraska (certain mental health and substance use disorder services only).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 29, 2023

It is beneficial for conditions that can be effectively managed remotely, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and mental health issues. Telehealth is beneficial for managing chronic conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and mental health issues, as well as follow-up appointments and medication management.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We expect a majority of health systems will be engaged with AI (NLP, Gen AI) use in clinical documentation and conversational AI either in pilot or some level of scale form. New data and tools will spark conversations and innovations, but companies will over promise and under deliver for the next 6-18 months. Carolyn Ward, M.D.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2020

The book Bowling Alone brilliantly documented the decline in social capital toward the end of the 20th century, and Case and Deaton build on Robert Putnam’s seminal work in Deaths of Despair. Making their evidence-based argument documenting the growing phenomenon of Deaths of Despair , Case and Deaton move to the topic of how the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

It’s been well-documented that Americans’ trust in institutions, and especially government and media, has eroded over the past decade. Oh, and legislation that once and for all realizes that guns are a public health threat at least as much as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and opioid addiction.

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