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Addressing behavioral health resources and costs in Ohio

Healthcare It News

But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental health care. Since then, efforts to improve care for those diagnosed with primary or secondary behavioral health conditions as well as grow a larger behavioral health workforce ensued.

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The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Bill of Health

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. By Doron Dorfman and Scott Landes. Without such data, our laws and policies will be fundamentally incomplete. are woefully inadequate.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Use of mobile apps to track personal health activity fell from nearly 1 in 2 consumers to 1 in 3. Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020.

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The Evolution of the EHR Service Desk and Leveraging an Outside Provider

Healthcare IT Today

Dan O’Connor, Vice President, Service Desk Delivery at HCTec , says that resolving a customer service call involves a lot more than fixing the problem that the customer bought. Furthermore, every call is about patient care, even if it’s helping a staff person use their computer.

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HHS OIG: 2 in 5 Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during first pandemic year

Healthcare It News

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released a study examining how Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. What compelled the team to look into beneficiaries' use of telehealth? This past month, the U.S.

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Who doesn’t text in 2022? Most state Medicaid programs

Healthcare It News

West Virginia will use the U.S. Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. West Virginia has more than 600,000 Medicaid enrollees.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed.