Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

"This legislation continues to advance our shared goal of transforming mental health care access and delivery in Massachusetts," said Sen. "This legislation will do so much good, but particularly it will expand mental health care access for rural residents, people of color, working families, and young people."

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Though crisis standards of care are meant to provide an ethics-based approach to the complex process of allocating scarce health care resources, in reality, they fall short. Even the best laid plans cannot guarantee an equitable division of health care resources.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Currently, overburdened county and local jails provide inadequate care for incarcerated individuals with high rates of comorbidities, mental health issues, and COVID-19. Repealing the MIEP can significantly improve health care access for incarcerated individuals.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Climate disasters create barriers to reproductive health care access by causing damage to facilities and overwhelming infrastructure and health personnel.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Access live, human support whenever needed. The partnership between Rula Health and Amino Health aims to simplify mental health care access and help patients find providers aligned with their preferences and expertise. Attend telehealth sessions and track progress on a single, user-friendly platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Congress must act to expand patient choice in every American community, meet patients where they are, and bring health care into the 21st century.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Leonard’s research in health equity, disparities, and global health care access has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the European Medicines Agency.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 26, 2023

Each June, Pride is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and honor the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ+ rights—including in health care access. Happy Pride Month from CHIR!

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Growing up with dyslexia and witnessing my mother struggle with anxiety, I saw firsthand how a lack of access to appropriate care can impact lives, Mohammed said. This inspired me to create a service that combines technology and goal-oriented therapy to make affordable, effective behavioral health care accessible to everyone.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As the first of its kind in the industry, the Upheal free plan offersunparalleled valueto mental health practices, giving providers access to essential tools that support a sustainable, efficient practice without any cost barrier. At Upheal, were building a secure platform thats intuitive and accessible to every mental health provider.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Fello: Revolutionizing Peer Support for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Amid rising challenges of loneliness, anxiety, and addiction, Fello is transforming how individuals access support by offering a peer-driven, virtual marketplace that pairs lived experiences with evidence-based practices.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The debate centers on whether eliminating CON regulations would enhance health care access and competition or lead to overutilization and increased costs. A bill to eliminate CON requirements for all health services except hospice failed in 2024.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The doxo study bolsters the fact that in 2020, most Americans faced with growing health care costs in a public health crisis understand what they could gain by voting and claiming their status as full health citizens with rights to health care access…in and beyond the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2024

The legal opportunities highlighted above address federal and state harm reduction policy misalignments by seeking to establish a true harm reduction system through more consistent health care access for people who use drugs , better coordina tion of federal and state funds dedicated to harm reduction, and re ductions in barriers to the operation of (..)

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The ACA and temporary pandemic-era policies such as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 , which allowed continuous Medicaid enrollment during the public health emergency (PHE), has helped to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care coverage – and proved to be important during COVID-19 to increase health care access.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: HL7 Integrations Engineer – TEKsystems Director, Health Information Services Operations – Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Billing Analyst – Harlingen Medical Center Manager, IT EPIC Application Clinical and Revenue Cycle – North Memorial Health Denials Coder (..)

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The tendency to exclude older adults in the design process of technology is accelerating gaps in health care access and quality of life. The support systems that are available online are more difficult and frustrating to use for older adults.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another key lens to keep front-and-center is employers’ embrace of determinants of health to bolster equity, inclusion, and population health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What You Should Know: – Headway , a tech-enabled network of mental health providers, has achieved a major milestone: it is now serving patients in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

to paint the movement on outdoor walls to promote health citizenship and the importance of health care access and affordability for all people in America. Shepard Fairey is well-known as a muralist painting popular and politically-inspired images. Power to the Patients is motivating muralists around the U.S.

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C&M Health Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

On July 21, 2023, the Department of Health Care Access and Information of the California Health and Human Services Agency released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) with regulations that would implement new financial and ownership transparency requirements for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) in California.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

.” Here we see that among people who have health insurance in the U.S., 55% of those with medical debt have had at least one limiting behavior due to cost — such as not going to the doctor for necessary care, skipping a test or treatment recommended by a doctor, or not filling a drug prescribed by a clinicians.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It’s time to embrace the full potential of telemedicine and remove the barriers that prevent patients from accessing life-changing clinical trials. Let’s make cutting-edge health care access as borderless as the technology that supports it, for the benefit of patients, researchers, and the future of medicine itself.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Climate disasters create barriers to reproductive health care access by causing damage to facilities and overwhelming infrastructure and health personnel.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Insurers should also work to decrease the shortage of mental health care providers in their networks. Ghost entries would be less problematic for mental health care access if there were a sufficient group of actual providers who could accept patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2022

Factor in a near 20% increase in adults reporting symptoms of anxiety and/or depression due to the pandemic, the stress of everyone schooling and working from home, and therapy deserts, and the need for affordable mental health care access seemed more urgent than ever.

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Health Populi

JULY 17, 2023

Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people said their health got worse as a result of that care-barrier.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2019

And pharma, already not-trusted for engaging with patients online, are in the sights of hospitals, health plans, and physicians in the current healthcare cost blame-game on Main Street in mass media and in Congressional Capitol Hill hearings.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP’s ten-article “Bill” incorporates a broad range of rights the speak to today’s health care environment — with States’ rights eroding health care access for certain populations, cybersecurity threats reducing patient trust in health systems and technology ubiquity, and health disparities compromising health (..)

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

.” Tomorrow will be my fifth and final post in this week’s series outlining HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , focusing on the last two words in the title.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

.” Growing out-of-pocket payments for copays and coinsurance for services and prescription drugs have also reshaped patients into consumers, increasingly facing a retail health environment that inspires many people to shop around for care and products when they are shoppable.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Among all of the challenges health care providers will face in 2023, digital health tools could have the greatest potential to improve patient access, according to the issues most Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2023 from UPMC. the Center for Connected Medicine, Nokia and KLAS Research.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

The fourth chart details five core SDoH factors covered in the survey: financial and economic, housing, education, food quality and access (nutrition), and health care access and health literacy. The overwhelming majority of employers are already attending to financial wellness and health care access and literacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. Our field deals disproportionately with the elderly and with people who suffer a range of disabilities, physical and mental.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

we haven’t come to terms with embracing our Health Citizenship — that is, our rights and responsibilities for claiming our health and health care in America. In the U.S., That social contract is love: in the case of COVID-19, to stop the spread, love means that I wear the mask for you, and you do so for me.

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