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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And healthcare resources are not always readily available to help them.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Completely Transform Mental Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Alexey Shalimov, Founder and CEO at Eastern Peak Mental health profoundly impacts human relationships, productivity, and overall wellness. This article will focus on the use of AI for mental healthcare and its potential to revolutionize the ways we give and receive mental health services.

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Clinically Validated Vital Signs for Mental Health

Healthcare IT Today

Check out our interview with Solinsky below to learn more, but it’s great to see how Ellipsis Health is using technology and your voice to create a clinically validated vital sign for your mental health. What do behavioral health patients have? Why not layer this mental health assessment on to the check-in process?

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Tech’s Role in Mental Health – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 64

Healthcare IT Today

For the 64th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Tech’s Role in Mental Health. Even before COVID-19, mental health was a really important topic. Of course, the […].

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"This increases pre-existing strains on rural healthcare systems due to provider shortages, limited hospital beds and other resource constraints." There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " PROPOSAL.