Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. The practice was forced to quickly pivot to telemedicine. " Dr. Joshua Merok, Michigan Avenue Primary Care. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

The survey covered peoples’ perspectives on mental health care, anxiety, COVID-19, children’s mental health, and the workplace. “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.” The time is now to make mental health more accessible. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The most visible threat was seen from UnitedHealth Group, with 3 in 4 hospitals noting UHG as a formidable threat to their health system business. CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

State and local governments, along with non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations are teaming up in Texas to tackle youth mental health. Youth Mental Health Crisis Mental health has long been a neglected area of healthcare, particularly when it comes to children and teenagers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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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GlobalMed

MAY 18, 2023

However, fewer than half receive mental health services. The ability to connect with mental health professionals from home has changed the way we approach mental health treatment. Virtual care helps patients feel safer and less guarded, allowing them to connect more deeply with their providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Please describe some of the emerging technology models in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and how they can help improve access to care for underserved populations. Advances in telehealth technology allow specialists and primary care providers to work together to treat patients even when the specialist is several hours away.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2020

employers worry about workers’ mental health and substance use as employees begin returning to work in the summer of 2020. Larger employers are more likely to deal head-on with behavioral health benefits. Larger employers are more likely to deal head-on with behavioral health benefits. About 4 in 5 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

There is growth in the number of plans offering virtual care services and expansion in the varieties of services offered. Some of the most rapid adoption of virtual care for Medicare Advantage plans has been driven by a focus on improving star ratings as more care has shifted into the home. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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MeMD

JUNE 13, 2022

While telehealth is traditionally known for convenient, at-home access to urgent care, widespread adoption fueled by the pandemic has paved the way for additional healthcare services via a virtual platform. Virtual primary care, on the other hand, eliminates these barriers for consumers and businesses alike ?

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Mend

AUGUST 3, 2023

Learn 10 proven methods for mental health practices to reduce patient no-shows. Reducing no-show rates in mental health practices is a critical objective in 2023. As many as 50% of mental health appointments aren’t completed. This significantly impacts patient care and provider revenue.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The Next Step Forward in Cardiac Care. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 17, 2023

Executive Summary: The future of telemedicine is poised to be promising and transformative, driven by advancements in technology, changing patient preferences, and evolving healthcare needs. Telemedicine is likely to become an integral part of healthcare delivery, expanding across various medical specialties and regions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

healthcare system, taking a toll on their physical and mental health, creating redundancy, and driving exorbitant costs. How can virtual specialty care help overcome these challenges? Today, too many patients are lost in the labyrinth of the U.S. Accelerate access to leading physicians.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

That decline in face-to-face physician visits was supplanted, in part, by hockey-stick growth for telemedicine visits. In the week of April 3, telemedicine visits with physicians comprised 1 in 4 interactions. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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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

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telemedicine technology can connect rural patients to psychiatrists in big urban hubs. Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Like many rural healthcare organizations, CCRLC has faced the challenge of recruiting mental health providers, due in part to the shortage of professionals in the specialty. This is where telemedicine comes in: It provides CCRLC a gateway for mental health providers to offer these services at the rural campus.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

More than 50% of people would take and monitor their temperature, measure their weight/BMI, monitor blood pressure, submit exercise and diet logs, monitor heart rate, submit a urine sample, and submit a mental health log. 45% of folks would do blood glucose tests at home, 39% a cholesterol test, and 35% screen for diabetes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. Drug Enforcement Administration to collaborate with the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. It also outlines how you can help to ensure the passage of these crucial bills.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But on the upside, note that a growing percentage of health consumers were very satisfied with the virtual health encounter, up from 39% in 2021 to 56% very satisfied in 2023.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

right now have no mental healthcare providers at all. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. "The most-organized efforts now are the primary care access programs and collaborative care models.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A report gathered by the American Heart Association, “Mental Health: A Workforce in Crisis,” found that 8,000 employees around the world die every year from medical conditions like strokes and heart attacks caused by job stress. Employees can use their PTO for recreation, instead of using it up on mental health appointments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. First we launched primary care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%). Counterbalancing the lack of in-person visits, thousands of physicians have pivoted to virtual care and telemedicine platforms.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 13, 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? The telemedicine industry in the U.S. Only 20% are listed here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

The second table from the PwC report details patients delaying care by consumer segment, health, and insurance status. In the first months of the pandemic, patients postponed many forms of care, including prevention, primary care, and even cancer care. This bar chart from the PwC study shows that U.S.

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