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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. In particular, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants have huge potential for providing initial mental health screening and support.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

Mend

Organizations like the American Telemedicine Association, Alliance for Connected Care and Connected Health Initiative, healthcare providers and dozens of lawmakers had lobbied to make at least some of those emergency provisions permanent. Years of telehealth advocacy have been devoted to removing these restrictions.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As things currently stand, with the caveat that things may very well change, after 2024 these flexibilities will be scaled back and will essentially only apply to mental health services.

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“It’s 2018, and We Still Have No Idea If Mobile Healthcare Apps Work”

mHealth Insight

These apps are mostly targeting obesity, mental health, and diabetes. Meanwhile, the mHealth Economics 2017 study states that major app stores feature around 325,000 unique health apps. “Another research, also touching upon the currently available apps for mental health, concluded that there is a significant gap.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

This act would result in more precise reimbursements and reduce overall Medicare costs by ensuring the continuous delivery of high-quality senior care, which can help reduce hospital admissions. Currently, the FDA does not regulate most digital mental health products, nor does it oversee psychotherapy, whether conducted online or in person.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No. Hospital leadership recently refreshed the Employee Assistance Program, which looks to improve work-life balance for employees by addressing behavioral and mental health needs. Cleveland Clinic. million visits each year. Pinehurst (N.C.)