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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2025

Queensland launches rural women's telehealth service The Queensland government has introduced a new virtual counselling line for women in regional and rural communities. million ($7 million) over four years in this telehealth service. Face-to-face video conferencing is coming soon. The state government has invested A$11.35

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Australian government is restoring its subsidy for bulk-billed video telehealth psychiatry consultations through a A$47.7 Starting this November, people living in rural and regional areas and other eligible patients can once again access free video consultations for mental health. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 26, 2021

The program consists of seven learning modules that range from introductory topics in telehealth to clinical applications and regulatory considerations.

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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. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

Through a partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, HunterCare is deploying telehealth technology to all Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Oklahoma.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The rise of telehealth offers a promising solution to these issues. This blog post explores the benefits of telehealth in correctional facilities, presenting a compelling case for its broader adoption. Telehealth can bridge this gap by providing remote consultations with healthcare professionals.

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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

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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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. But the mental health impacts of COVID in America aren’t felt evenly or homogeneously across all U.S. health citizens. In the summer of 2020, four months into the pandemic, one-half of people living in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2022

Telehealth company Antidote Health is extending its virtual care offerings to include a service focused on mental health issues. Antidote Health and its clinicians will use an approach called enhanced, evidence-based care.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

perceive a dramatic rise in mental health conditions among fellow health citizens growing over the past five years, people note barriers of cost, insufficient supply of providers, and stigma as barriers to getting care in the latest Gallup and West Health poll on the subject. grading mental health a “B.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2022

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden announced a strategy to address the country's mental health crisis, which has reached staggering levels amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth also plays a major role in the path forward, with the president noting the safety and efficacy of virtual care in behavioral services.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Telehealth could help lower those barriers to care. Baby boomers are less likely to see therapists or psychiatrists, despite the growing need during the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of India has formally launched this week its national tele-mental health programme. Called Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS), it will provide free, round-the-clock teleconsultation service for mental health concerns.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The partnership will allow DotCom’s teletherapy services to build on Goodside’s in-school telehealth offerings, which mostly focus on physical health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s another riff on principles “by-design,” such as equity-by-design, privacy-by-design, and other mindsets that people who envision, design, commercialize, and implement things for people focused on health and care should consider as a first principle.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

There are numerous facets on employer-sponsored health care to explore in the KFF report’s 220 pages, but I’m going to focus in on a few issues with which I’m working these days: on prescription drugs, telehealth, and mental health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center has identified mental health concerns and addiction as the first and second most important priorities for rural health stakeholders, according to a May 2023 policy brief. What is the problem with rural and partially rural areas and so few mental healthcare providers?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It is no secret that the United States is experiencing a mental health crisis due to aggravated conditions from the pandemic exacerbated by of a shortage of mental health professionals, especially psychiatrists. As many as 80% of individuals seeking mental health treatment in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Why it’s telehealth, of course, which has experienced hockey-stick growth in the U.S. Some one in 4 survey respondents used telehealth in the past 3 months (about the first 90 days of the pandemic), with a vast majority of people satisfied with their virtual healthcare visit. and around the globe) over the past three months.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 3, 2020

The new service will let patients communicate with general practitioners, mental health clinicians and specialists.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Joe’s deploys telehealth in eight states. First, connected care: one in five U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

The pandemic accelerated many Very Big Deals in digital health venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, and the re-emergence of SPACs in health care. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

The survey covered peoples’ perspectives on mental health care, anxiety, COVID-19, children’s mental health, and the workplace. “The pandemic and its mental health effects are very much still with us.” The time is now to make mental health more accessible. 1 in 2 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Avihai Sodri is CEO of Antidote Health, a telehealth services provider. How does a virtual-first approach to healthcare help hospitals and health systems enable greater accessibility to care? How exactly can a virtual-first approach improve health outcomes? He has extensive experience in the virtual-first approach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 28, 2021

In this very special episode of HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock welcomes his mother Carol Hornbeck, a marriage and family therapist in Minneapolis, and her colleague Edwin Shurig, a mental health counselor in Indianapolis. Edwin and Carol’s telehealth experiences prior to the pandemic. Advice for telehealth tech vendors.

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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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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2023

The solution Oak Orchard found was telehealth, which it continues to use today. Patients can stay at home while providers work at the health center or other safe location to provide care. Telehealth has helped the health system with medical, dental and behavioral health services. A huge plus."

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Mobi Health News

MAY 12, 2022

Also: Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its mental health chatbot, and Pear Therapeutics expands its telehealth partnership program.

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