Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. Youth Mental Health Crisis Mental health has long been a neglected area of healthcare, particularly when it comes to children and teenagers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Healthcare IT News interviewed Griffin to take a closer look at what he will be presenting at the HIMSS22 conference. Please describe some of the emerging technology models in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and how they can help improve access to care for underserved populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

There is growth in the number of plans offering virtual care services and expansion in the varieties of services offered. Some of the most rapid adoption of virtual care for Medicare Advantage plans has been driven by a focus on improving star ratings as more care has shifted into the home. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

healthcare system, taking a toll on their physical and mental health, creating redundancy, and driving exorbitant costs. How can virtual specialty care help overcome these challenges? Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. Drug Enforcement Administration to collaborate with the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

"Despite the 180-day grace period after the end of the PHE, new and existing patients will be seeking in-person appointments simultaneously in a health care system that is already burdened by a shortage of health care providers. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. "According to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

right now have no mental healthcare providers at all. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. "The most-organized efforts now are the primary care access programs and collaborative care models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Like many rural healthcare organizations, CCRLC has faced the challenge of recruiting mental health providers, due in part to the shortage of professionals in the specialty. This is where telemedicine comes in: It provides CCRLC a gateway for mental health providers to offer these services at the rural campus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. First we launched primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. for mental health conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

Healthcare IT News interviewed Sweeney-Platt on the subjects of telemedicine adoption, utilization, scheduling and permanence, seeking her expertise and lessons learned from athenahealth's treasure trove of telehealth data. Q: So, we've seen remarkable adoption of telemedicine in the past 12 months, but will it hold?

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 31, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Soon, telemedicine may be, literally, just around the corner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2021

"The telemedicine technology offers easy accessibility to healthcare, primary care or specialists for the surrounding communities that they would not have otherwise," she continued. " LCHD to date has three telemedicine units. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2021

The survey found that 62% of respondents had a virtual care visit of some kind from March 2019 through March 2020 – and for 71% of them, it was their first time doing so. Half of respondents said their primary care provider had offered virtual care visits during the pandemic. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2022

Telemedicine is on an all-time high. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that. Travel to virtually any U.S. Where were providers excelling?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. Therapists are supported by a psychiatrist and a specialized behavioral health pharmacist.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

healthcare consumers, which also found stress and social isolation are still fueling demand for remote behavioral and mental health services. "We also expect to see telehealth use grow for primary care, urgent care and chronic care management," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. It turned to a robust telemedicine solution as the answer.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

For Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, CEO of telemedicine company Coviu, the permanent changes to telehealth is "long overdue," although it demonstrates the government’s commitment to the future of the country's digital healthcare system. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"The telehealth cliff is looming, casting much uncertainty and concern for the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries, and the sustainability of our already overburdened healthcare system," said Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.).

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. So let’s take a moment to pause and evaluate healthcare at home to see where we are and where we need to go.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

United Physicians, based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, is always on the hunt for programs that empower its primary care providers to serve as the medical home for patients. The mission at United Physicians is to advance physician performance to improve patient health outcomes. THE PROBLEM. In fact, they'll worsen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, the agency had laid the groundwork for virtual care expansion through established telehealth programs in more than 50 clinical specialties. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Residents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are embracing telemedicine, with virtual-consultations appearing to be increasing in popularity. August 2020 saw 23% of its enquiries also relating to mental health. This is according to new data released by the UAE division of the international telehealth provider, vHealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

In this interview with Healthcare IT News , she spells out these three ways to help provider organization CIOs and telemedicine executives to boost virtual care. Healthcare providers should leverage telehealth to increase capacity. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

In the UK “remote care and telemedicine had to rapidly jumpstart, and many nurses with little experience of telehealth have had to adapt and learn quickly in the last month,” Gregory said and added that the long-term digital agenda had suddenly been implemented due to investment and urgent need.

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