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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. Healthcare IT News sat down with Virginia Telehealth Network's Mara Servaites, executive director, and Robin Cummings, special projects director, to dig into the results and find out the status of telemedicine in the state. Why do you think this is?

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S. Care coordination and continuity.

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Grow Your Practice Through Telehealth

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For example, 56% of counties in the US do not have a psychiatrist, 64% of counties have a shortage of mental health providers, and 70% of counties are without a child psychiatrist according to McKinsey & Company. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders. In addition, only a few states have evaluated the effects of telehealth, said the agency; these states found increased access and reduced costs.

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As 'telehealth cliff' looms, hundreds of healthcare orgs urge Congress to act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Survey results we released in May show that nearly 6 in 10 of active college students first accessed mental health services during their K-12 years and 42% experienced their first formal care in high school. Regardless of their health coverage status, Gen Z values the convenience of care access from any location.