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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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. The study polled U.S. By gender, more older women are interested in using telehealth compared with men.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It’s time for us to get the annual update on health consumers from the multi-faceted team who curated the Global Wellness Summit’s annual report on The Future of Wellness 2023 Trends. Certainly mental health and financial wellness are two pillars of overall wellbeing for which employees seek support from employers.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 26, 2019

employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health challenges have indeed adversely impacted more younger people than people 25 and older.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2021

felt worry or stress related to the coronavirus that had a negative impact on their mental health. Note the line in the bar chart from the study has flat-lined and settled at just about 50% of U.S. Note the line in the bar chart from the study has flat-lined and settled at just about 50% of U.S. health citizens.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 12, 2023

While payers should cover telehealth, where these services are the most valuable still requires investigation, according to a stu | Telehealth can reduce utilization when used for mental health, skin problems, metabolic conditions, and musculoskeletal diseases, but doesn’t help cut costs for circulatory, respiratory, and infectious diseases, according (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 17, 2022

Immersive 360-degree videos represent a recent development in virtual reality mental health, whereby users can utilize digitally simulated realities similar to the real world (Slater & Sanchez, 2016 ). These viable technologies hold much promise but, to date, have not been widely adopted in mental health settings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2021

A recently published study found a marked increase in the number of Australians and New Zealanders turning to digital services for mental health support during the pandemic. The study looked at the uptake of two online cognitive behavioural therapy services – This Way UP in Australia and Just a Thought in New Zealand.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In 2020, it was reported that over 19% of this population experienced a mental health condition. Although many individuals in these populations require treatment, the majority of Native Americans reside in rural areas where access to mental health services is severely limited.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When thinking about mental health in the Black community, it’s important to put into perspective how their experiences are impacted by culture and history. Organizations can work to address these inequalities by helping create better access to mental health support and providing more culturally competent care.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

More people are in need of mental health treatment today than ever before, but there just aren't enough therapists to meet the growing demand. received mental health treatment or counseling. Telehealth certainly has made mental healthcare available to many more people. million adults in the U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2023

Telemental health services solve common challenges. How telemental health works for organizations. How telehealth works for certain conditions and populations. If you’re looking to implement telehealth services into your organization, you might wonder, “how does telehealth work?” How Iris can help.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The following case study will address the application of healthcare translation services to the communication and language assistance needs of people who are limited English proficient (LEP). The article is written to illustrate the practical identification and utilization of LEP services in telehealth.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

Surgeon General, the fact is that a growing number of Americans are feeling negative mental health impacts…and it’s only early April in what will be a many-month new-normal of physical distancing. The post The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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GlobalMed

MAY 5, 2020

While many of us are sheltering in place to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a massive mental health pandemic is also brewing. Fears about COVID-19, the economic meltdown, and prolonged social-isolation are all taking a toll on mental health. Telehealth Expands Access to Behavioral Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The launch delivers on a key commitment from Mayor Adams’ “Working People’s Agenda” and “Care, Community, Action,” his mental health plan for New York City released in March. Earlier this year, we pledged to make mental health support available to all New York City teens, and today we are delivering on that promise.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

The full report speaks to medical spending and utilization trends for preventive care, telehealth, and behavioral health. You can access state-by-state specifics on the Castlight Health supplemental dataset portal ]. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study. compared with 941.9

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Mental health is an essential component of a person’s overall well-being and can be improved through proper nutrition and regular exercise. In fact, a study published in BMC Medicine revealed that diets centered around fresh and whole foods that are rich in nutrients, have the potential to improve depressive symptoms.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mental health stigma is a serious problem that can cause people to opt-out of treatment for their behavioral health conditions. In fact, a study by the Cohen Veterans Network found that nearly one-third of Americans have worried about others judging them for seeking mental health services.

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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. million telehealth visits during the study period, nearly 3.7 WHY IT MATTERS. Of the more than 4.3 THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

A large-scale study recently published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health found that an increase in telehealth use in the Pacific Northwest corresponded to a dramatic decrease in transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. WHY IT MATTERS. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

With that objective, it’s always instructive to explore the annual study from the Business Group on Health, the 2022 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, large employees have many concerns about worker and dependents’ health.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2023

Our pets can be personal and family drivers of health and health care cost savings, according to a new study from according to a new report from researchers at George Mason University published in their paper, Health Care Cost Savings of Pet Ownership. bn savings attributable to obesity reduction, s1.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2023

A new telehealth study by the University of Texas McCombs School of Business found that virtual care did not significantly lower costs, or reduce the number of future visits to emergency rooms or specialists for circulatory, respiratory and infectious diseases.

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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. Let’s consider if a mental health visit averages $74 in revenue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule for telehealth items in Australia – including the termination of 128 items, amendment of 17 items, and the addition of two more items – have taken effect this week. Some healthcare leaders in the country have pointed out potential consequences of the MBS telehealth changes.

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