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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness.

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Together, these three factors erode workers’ confidence in jobs and their personal household economies and financial health. The second chart comes from the study, quantifying global citizens’ trust levels by industry sector since 2012. Technology was the only industry whose trust-equity fell in the year.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

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. Politics is not about money.

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Call It Deferring Services or Self-Rationing, U.S. Consumers Are Still Avoiding Medical Care

Health Populi

have been self-rationing medical care for many years, well before any of us knew what “PPE” meant or how to spell “coronavirus.” ” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. Patients in the U.S.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

Healthtech can play a fundamental role in the enhancement of preventative care, as discussed previously. As the proportion of the population affected by chronic conditions grows, lack of adherence will soon be seen as the serious public health issue it already is. 2021 [6] Regina M.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). But unfortunately for us, ubiquity is only part of the story, as this particular function (like many public health apparatus) has withered away in recent years. Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2012, and made immunization reporting mandatory unless a state had no registry.