Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the great use cases for telemedicine has proven to be mental health. She’s board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as adult psychiatry. When telepsychiatry was first in higher demand due to COVID, it is estimated in February 2019, 4% of survey respondents indicated using telehealth services.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Many members may not know what telehealth is, which means the first thing health plans should do is build awareness.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Many members may not know what telehealth is, which means the first thing health plans should do is build awareness.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? ED telehealth services improve patient satisfaction and access. Telehealth services increase hospital discharge and follow-up rates. If so, you’re not alone.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2022

Telemedicine. Telemedicine ranks as the go to answer, especially during the height of COVID-19. The flexibilities in telehealth make care feasible for patients that live in areas with no access to psychiatrists. While asynchronous telemedicine is used in other specialties, it is rarely employed in psychiatry.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

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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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Early in the pandemic, telehealth utilization skyrocketed, as virtual care was a safe way to access necessary care. shows that telehealth use has stabilized at levels 38 times higher than before the pandemic. Telehealth Will Enhance Value-Based Care. Fortunately, telehealth has stepped in to fill this gap, too.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients have increasingly welcomed telemedicine into their healthcare journey as they seek more convenience and partnership with their healthcare providers.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many hospitals and health systems have never implemented a psychiatry or telepsychiatry program. Other hospitals have dabbled in telemedicine by providing telestroke or teleradiology services. You’ll also contract and panel with health plans including Medicaid and Medicare as well as local, regional, and relevant private health plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.

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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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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As we do each year, the Amwell team has selected from a highly competitive field of clients those who stand out for their innovation and achievement in telehealth. By 2020, IU Health had launched on-demand virtual psychiatry assessments in the ED and a virtual peer recovery program, going live in 14 hospitals in less than 100 days.

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