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Better Behavioral Health Care Through Collaboration and Virtual Care
In the U.S. health care system, the demand for behavioral health care has long outpaced availability, with many patients forced to turn to their primary care providers for help. To find a solution, Henry Ford Health System decided to get creative with a new collaborative care program that for the first time integrated primary care with behavioral health.
Atrium Health Extends Reach with Virtual Care to Improve Health and Elevate Hope
In a recent report, “Transforming Health Care Delivery Through Virtual Care,” Atrium Health leaders detail how they’ve developed more than 30 virtual programs that streamline access to care, reduce wait times and improve the patient experience.
AHA Associate Podcast Series: Special Episode | Iris Telehealth
Hospitals and health systems are often the first-line responders and conduits to care for behavioral health conditions — which affect one in five Americans — but facilities across the country are struggling to keep up with demand and provide timely access to quality care. Patients and providers are at risk. In this podcast episode, Dan Ferris, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer of Iris Telehealth, will discuss these challenges and how Iris Telehealth is helping advance health system behavioral health service lines across the continuum to drive scalable and sustainable financial and clinical outcomes.
3 Steps to Take When Assessing Virtual Mental Health
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to evaluated a virtual adolescent treatment known as SparkRx. The CHLA study is the latest of many efforts to assess the value and limitations among the rapidly rising number of apps and telehealth offerings designed to serve the needs of patients accessing mental health services, particularly the young.
4 Ways to Become a More Teledriven Health System
Robert Pearl, M.D., CEO of Kaiser Permanente Medical Group from 1999 to 2017, and Brian Wayling, executive director of telehealth services at Intermountain Healthcare, another pioneering telehealth organization, argue in a recent Harvard Business Review report that the telehealth era is just beginning.
Global Digital Health Startup Activity Near All-time High
It may be a brief snapshot in time, but second-quarter global venture capital investments in digital health startups provided another illustration of where many financiers believe the field is headed. Global investor support for artificial intelligence in health care set a record in both deals and dollars while digital health startups targeting behavioral and women’s health continue to receive strong backing, according to a recent CB Insights report.
Investor Appetite Remains Strong for Digital Health Startups
Much was riding on the late July initial public offering by California-based Livongo Health — both for the company, which helps patients manage chronic diseases, as well as other digital health startups trying to assess investor appetite for the sector. By market close on the first day of public trading for Livongo, it was hard to escape the positive reaction.
4 Ways to Frame Your Future in the Metaverse
The metaverse has two primary functions, according to Accenture leaders in the report “Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2022.” The first is internet of place, which enables users to move beyond browsing to inhabiting and/or participating in a shared experience that spans from the real world to fully virtual and in between. The second is Web3 or internet of ownership.
4 Keys to Delivering Superior Virtual Care
Four leaders of clinical transformation, innovation and marketing from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School recently shared a blueprint in the Harvard Business Review.
Leveraging Virtual Care to Increase Access and Triage Patients
Virtual care has the potential to increase access, reduce costs and help patients make better decisions about their care as symptoms arise. Fulfilling these lofty goals may be a work in progress, but evolving telemedicine platforms are attempting to solve some of health care’s perplexing problems — how to increase access to primary care while delivering it in the most-appropriate cost setting.