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Wearable Device Being Tested to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths Using Harm Reduction

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Dramatic advances in life-saving technology often meet decades of delay before word of its availability makes it to behavioral professionals. Accessibility to naloxone as a harm reduction intervention for people at risk for opioid overdose is a focus of public health interventions to combat the rising number of opioid-related deaths.

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Telehealth Licensure Compliance Changes in Response to COVID-19 in Each U.S. State – Master Reference

Continue Education Journal

Many states chose to loosen licensure regulations, and they made changes such as permitting temporary licenses to out-of-state physicians, waiving meeting and relationship requirements that are usually necessary to provide services, allowing interstate virtual appointments, and more.

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The 2020 Amwell Client Awards

American Well

The health system also saw a 10-15x increase in on-demand virtual visits during the pandemic. To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?

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2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. Five new permanent telehealth codes have been approved for prolonged E/M services and chronic pain management. The 12/22/22 Senate passage of the 1.7

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). The Indiana Public Health Association recognized Eskenazi Health for its workplace culture in the Public Health is Good Business category, which complements the American Heart Association’s platinum-level fit-friendly worksite honor also bestowed on the health system.