Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Emergency departments (EDs) nationwide face numerous challenges, including the demand issue of many mental health patients and few mental health professionals to serve them. Emergency telehealth services have been tested and conducted for decades, often in Medicaid telehealth and safety-net settings.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. The researchers also found that genetics and nutrition are the specialties that made the most efficient use of telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2021

Deploying telehealth to improve access. In an effort to provide more accessible healthcare to Lynn County and the surrounding counties, LCHD applied for and received grants to establish telehealth hubs in Lynn County and the surrounding counties. " LCHD to date has three telemedicine units. " Avoiding ER visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various industries, and telehealth/telemedicine is no exception. Telemedicine has gained traction in recent years providing healthcare services remotely, allowing patients to receive quality care without being physically present at a healthcare facility.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently issued a policy paper on telemedicine performance measures for physicians providing clinical care. The ACP recommendations stress the importance of maintaining the quality of performance measures using more precisely defined key performance indicators (KPIS) used to evaluate telehealth care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 9, 2023

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recently issued a policy paper on telemedicine performance measures for physicians providing clinical care. The ACP recommendations stress the importance of maintaining the quality of performance measures using more precisely defined key performance indicators (KPIS) used to evaluate telehealth care.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Expanding its report-card role in the health ecosystem. Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. Those who had a telehealth encounter more likely lived in the Western U.S., State level. For this research, J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2020

This past week, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said she "can't imagine going back" to making beneficiaries return to in-person visits after the agency's relaxation of telehealth regulations in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healee

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There are many conditions that pediatricians manage, like asthma, diabetes, genetic disorders, mental health problems and more, that can be effectively handled via telemedicine. With COVID-19 still present, parents shy... The post Pediatric telehealth appeared first on Healee.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Growing telehealth capabilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth. Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. Basically anyone involved or interested in digital health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

Julian Flannery is founder and CEO of telehealth technology and services company Summus Global, which focuses on specialty care. For patients, having unanswered questions, receiving a new diagnosis or managing an existing chronic condition presents real challenges that induce stress, confusion and real risk to health and financial wellbeing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Several healthcare organizations and elected officials came together on Thursday in support of legislation safeguarding access to telehealth after the pandemic. "We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. The temporary waivers issued by the U.S.

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American Well

MAY 30, 2017

Mental Health Awareness Month has a nearly 70-year history of informing the public about one of the biggest medical issues affecting the country. As of March 2012, nearly 91 million people live in a Mental Health Professional Shortage Area. This is a problem that telehealth can help address.

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American Well

MAY 30, 2017

Mental Health Awareness Month has a nearly 70-year history of informing the public about one of the biggest medical issues affecting the country. As of March 2012, nearly 91 million people live in a Mental Health Professional Shortage Area. This is a problem that telehealth can help address.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, the agency had laid the groundwork for virtual care expansion through established telehealth programs in more than 50 clinical specialties. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3 million veterans with more than 11.2

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Join Telebehavioral Health Institute Faculty (TBHI Faculty) and Coding Leader as they present a telehealth reimbursement webinar entitled, “Telemedicine Mental Health Services: Finally Get Paid.” Dr. Marlene … Read more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2020

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Telehealth’s reach in behavioral health has advanced over the last decade as demand for digital services and the elimination of barriers to care have been prioritized by clients/patients, communities, and providers. Telehealth refers to delivering and distributing services and information through telecommunication technology.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 27, 2018

The School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program is collecting data that supports the feasibility and success of offering real-time telehealth services in rural School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs). Kaiser Family Foundation, Arkansas is designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) for mental health care providers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. CTA unveiled the 2021 key trends we’ll see presented this week through the online exhibition hall and in educational sessions on the CES.Tech platform. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Cindy Gaines, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeon Telehealth, digital communication, and remote patient monitoring rose to the forefront during the pandemic and are now well-established care delivery options. When thinking about home care, it’s also worth mentioning how technology really empowers at-home care providers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

AI can make healthcare more human and smarter based on data it feeds on from a variety of sources generated from many “things” in the IoT for health. As IoT morphs into the Intelligence of Things in a world of 5G communications, it splits between “Critical IoT” and “Massive IoT” shown in the chart from CTA’s presentation.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Among the brands that directly play into health and wellness are Dr. Fauci (yes, he’s a brand and the most-trusted voice on coronavirus science in the U.S.; At first reticent to contradict political leaders, Fauci has been recently breaking ranks to correct misinformation and present a potential road map to combating the coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2019

In the early 2000s, the state of Texas was in the midst of a widely recognized, multi-decade crisis from lack of mental health services for people in need. Psychiatric facilities were above capacity, leaving patients in mental health emergencies with either jail or emergency rooms as their only options. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One universal experience health systems around the globe have witnessed in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic has been the dramatic pivot to telehealth and virtual care platforms. In the first six months of the pandemic, the tale of telehealth as told via media coverage and virtual conference content has been quite bullish.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leslie Morland continued to push the event pass the starting line with her plenary talk, Virtual Mental Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: An Immediate Response to COVID-19 , which was all the more pertinent since it was Veteran’s Day. Since March of this year, out of 180 women, only 2 were born pre-term.

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