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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Telemedicine racks up big cost savings and enhanced care for Nebraska hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"As large health systems became overwhelmed and unable to accept new patients, transferring patients to other facilities became increasingly difficult." " This forced Chase to retain patients longer than normal, requiring a higher level of care not typically seen in the critical access hospital.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

One challenge is extensive nomenclature differences across physician practices, hospitals, and pharmacies. In particular, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants have huge potential for providing initial mental health screening and support.

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Does DTC Digital Health have a future?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health direct-to-consumer (DTC) refers to healthcare products and services delivered directly to consumers online, bypassing traditional intermediaries like doctors or hospitals. Mental health services: Online therapy sessions, meditation apps, and mental health chatbots.

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Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News and Studies The National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program with $50 million in funding to develop tools for hospital IT teams to enhance cybersecurity measures and combat ransomware.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As things currently stand, with the caveat that things may very well change, after 2024 these flexibilities will be scaled back and will essentially only apply to mental health services.