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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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Nursing community collaboration on the European COVID-19 front-lines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Similarities in cross-border community challenges. are lower than Spain (9.7)

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How a hardware overhaul made much more telemedicine possible at a small health center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. This setup has worked well for the mental health center over the last few years. THE PROBLEM.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"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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How Telemedicine Psychiatry Addresses Mental Health Access Issues

American Well

Telemedicine psychiatry , also called telepsychiatry, is helping patients across the country gain access to mental healthcare services. Children’s Omaha is now seeking to scale up their telehealth partnership with American Well due to the success of its telemedicine psychiatry program. The Need for Telemedicine Psychiatry.

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How Telemedicine Psychiatry Addresses Mental Health Access Issues

American Well

Telemedicine psychiatry, also called telepsychiatry, is helping patients across the country gain access to mental healthcare services. Children’s Omaha is now seeking to scale up their telehealth partnership with American Well due to the success of its telemedicine psychiatry program. The Need for Telemedicine Psychiatry.

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For Oak Orchard, telehealth relieves shortage of medical, dental and mental health pros

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"When patients started to come back to the office, we used in-room telemedicine equipment from Elo and Logitech. "Patients were roomed by a nurse at one of our offices where the telemedicine equipment was already set up, and our providers would be at another one of our offices or possibly working from home," he continued.