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Tele-psychiatry helps small provider expand services, treat during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As is the case nationally, psychiatry is in limited supply in the area of River Valley Health and Dental Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 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.

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Talkiatry Finds Features and Flexibility in eClinicalWorks

Healthcare IT Today

Talkiatry is a telemedicine service connecting psychiatrists with patients suffering from depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and other common mental health and behavioral problems. This market is an especially complex area of health care for many reasons. In a remote rural are, they may be few or none.

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Geisinger solves behavioral health access problem with telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. As a result, we're able to get people into psychiatry usually within ten days. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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UpLift Raises $8M in Funding to Integrate Psychiatry Into the Mental Healthcare Delivery Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Behavioral health startup applies new funding to accelerate growth and expand patient offerings to successfully manage a full spectrum of needs Today, UpLift, the first vertically integrated mental healthcare delivery system, announced their expansion into psychiatry as well as the closing of $8M in secondary funding.

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From Zoom to full EHR-integrated telemedicine on $245,000

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“Zoom also provided our health center with an easy-to-implement telehealth option while we researched an integrated telemedicine option for our electronic health record, which would be more permanent.” There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

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What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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With telehealth, one practice is now seeing more patients than before the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Regulations had been passed in New Jersey requiring reimbursement for telemedicine services. But the major payer sources, while aware of the new regs, had not made any changes in their reimbursement process to pay for services provided through telemedicine. There also were limits on how the telemedicine service could be provided.