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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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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. DTC appeals to this desire with features like telehealth appointments and at-home services.

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How Dr. Sophie Feller Builds Relationships with Colleagues Virtually

Iris Telehealth

I was looking at different telehealth companies and Iris was one of the top companies that popped up. How does telehealth compare to in-person care? I’ve found that I am just as able to connect with patients via telehealth as I am in person. Why do you think telehealth is important to the future of mental healthcare?

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Joe Ganley, Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at athenahealth There is no shortage of potential regulations that could impact health IT and more importantly our customers, from how we regulate artificial intelligence, to privacy, to telehealth to TEFCA, to information blocking (HTI-1 Rule from ONC).

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?