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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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The Legacy of COVID-19 Is Shaping Consumers’ Purchases for Health-At-Home

Health Populi

GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK.

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An Innovative Solution To Support Expanded Telehealth Capability

Electronic Health Reporter

An established leader in telehealth technology, VA has been using real-time virtual video medical appointments since 2002 to connect veterans with VA clinicians […]. The article An Innovative Solution To Support Expanded Telehealth Capability appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Paul died in a plane crash in 2002. Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity.

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[Free Webinar] How One Virtual Care Platform Can Optimize Multiple Clinical Workflows

eVisit

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

Along with this category addressing mental wellness, HealthXL includes telepsychiatry (telehealth focused on psych-therapy), digital biomarkers, chatbots, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and VR/AR based therapy, which has been found especially useful for PTSD and other anxiety-related conditions. .” ” Dr. C.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.