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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 those mental health statistics are quite important because of the mental health professional shortage in the United States.

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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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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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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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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the telemedicine work of the University of Montana College of Health in Missoula, services would be provided through a centralized hub at the university with synchronous and asynchronous telehealth services provided to rural and tribal communities in partnership with clinics, hospitals and pharmacies across the state. MARKETPLACE.

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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies

Healthcare IT Today

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.