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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

A news report recently revealed that one in four psychiatry positions in public health institutions are vacant in some states. The government seems to be also keen on utilising telehealth in addressing accessibility issues in mental healthcare. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Baptist Health uses telemedicine to enable 24/7 vital care for suicidal patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2022

Raichura, director of the center for telehealth at Geisinger. This telehealth expansion would feature in-home care, when feasible, and broadband access to help ensure care is delivered in a timely and safe manner. "Fewer rural residents than their urban counterparts get the recommended exercise. " Tejal A. " RESULTS.

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Telehealth helps one hospital reduce ER overflow hours from 1,700 to 148

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 3, 2019

"By having a psychiatric nurse assessor interact with the patient to address immediate concerns and gather information first, the telemedicine psychiatrist receives a more thorough background and review of the patient’s unique needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Both physicians then work together to develop a plan of care.”

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

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. As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr. Tom Milam manages a team of clinicians and guides them in telemedicine and industry best practices.

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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more. Williams, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, and medical director, Council on School Health (COSH) for the TCMHCC.

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Hackensack Meridian Health shows the benefits of telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. FCC funds for telehealth. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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How telepsychiatry is helping chip away at the mental health crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In an interview with Healthcare IT News , Varrell talks about how healthcare organizations are coping via telepsychiatry with the mental health crisis, how tele-psychiatry has changed over the last two decades and the requisite bedside manner for tele-psychiatry. I connected to a hospital screen via phone lines.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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HopeHealth turns around blood pressure and blood glucose problems with RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. For this problem, we adopted a remote patient monitoring solution from FORA Telehealth," Whitfield continued. Second, HopeHealth's supply of telehealth hardware was out of date and lacked clinical peripherals.

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Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

"We had to deploy not only new beds, nurse call systems, oxygen lines and infection control solutions, we also had to prepare for staffing the new departments," said Dr. Kevin Dawson, CIO at Howard University Hospital. "With the help of Amwell, we developed training programs for physicians and nurses," he added.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

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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? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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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? Only 20% are listed here. Sign Up to see them all.

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University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For the session, Building Empathy with Telebehavioral Health: Crossing the Urban-Rural Divide , I spoke with with Dr. Jennifer Richman, associate professor of psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center, and Michael Hasselberg, NP, senior director of digital Health at U of Rochester. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Brightline Closes $10 Million Extended Series C Financing from Northwell Health as Demand for Family Behavioral Health Care Soars

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2022

. “Pediatric behavioral health has been declared a national crisis and the demand for services is experienced across the healthcare landscape,” said Dr. Victor Fornari, Vice Chair & Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Northwell Health.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. Healthcare provider executives surveyed by HRI most frequently cited mental health and psychiatry (58%), family medicine (56%), obstetrics and gynecology (46%), and pediatrics (44%) as the specialties in which their organizations will offer virtual visits in 2021.”

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight. The benefits of telehealth are striking, offering hospitals the chance to brand themselves as innovative and using cutting-edge technologically. Here, we summarize 8 reasons why you should consider telehealth to be part of the holistic health practice of your hospital.

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Women's telehealth program diminishes stigma via technology

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Constance Guille, director of the Women's Reproductive Behavioral Health Division at the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as a professor in the departments of psychiatry and OB/GYN. "With minimal training, nurses began successfully enrolling pregnant and postpartum women in LTWP."

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Telemedicine saves the day for Avera Health in the COVID-19 era

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. "Endocrinology, psychiatry, dermatology and cardiology are a few specialties where virtual care has been critical."

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How telehealth can help solve the physician specialist shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2022

We interviewed him to talk about the landscape of specialty care in telehealth, which medical specialties lend themselves well to telemedicine, and what CIOs and CMOs at healthcare provider organizations today should know about delivering specialty care via telehealth. I'm bullish on the specialty telemedicine landscape.

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Baptist Health uses telemedicine to enable 24/7 vital care for suicidal patients

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How telepsychiatry is helping chip away at the mental health crisis

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HopeHealth turns around blood pressure and blood glucose problems with RPM

Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

March 2019 Telemedicine News

University of Rochester serves rural patients, reduces ED burden with telebehavioral health

Brightline Closes $10 Million Extended Series C Financing from Northwell Health as Demand for Family Behavioral Health Care Soars

Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

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Women's telehealth program diminishes stigma via technology

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