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Weekly Roundup – May 20, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Improving Youth Mental Health at Scale in Texas. One in six Americans aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Auditing data, physical security, and disaster recovery strategies is an important start. Laurel Williams, M.D., Houske at OTAVA.

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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. The temporary waivers issued by the U.S.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health. Expanding efficiency of mental healthcare delivery.

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UCSF's Comprehensive Co-Design Approach for Pediatric Patients growing up with Chronic Illness

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Two of the groups work fairly independently and are focused on two important facets of wellness, mental health and transition to adult care. We have a core team including myself, three providers and a program manager and then three formal workgroups.

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Voice Health Summit Spotlight 2018

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Sonde Health is interested in capturing and using a patient’s voice samples as health measures for different physical (e.g. sinus congestion) and mental health conditions (e.g. Lessons from Voice Health Innovators. Vocal Biomarker Lab. depression, suicide risk). newly diagnosed) and what (e.g.

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Voting for Health in 2020

Health Populi

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

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