Telehealth

A strong therapeutic alliance can be created virtually – most critically, telepsychiatry helps patients feeling the serious effects of a mental health issue get better quickly, notes the CMO of the company behind the peer-reviewed research.

Also, the NSW government has expanded statewide the implementation of its virtual urgent care service for children.

The health system's medical director will offer more perspective on how remote patient monitoring is helping, including enabling an adherence rate of 80% to daily vitals, at HIMSS24.

And this year there will be a focus on continuing access to medications for mental health because mental health is a critical part of overall health, predicts a psychiatrist who practices telehealth.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is working with Bicycle Health to give individuals released from prison continued access to monthly injections of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. Bicycle Health CEO Ankit Gupta offers a deep dive.  

The nursing-oriented remote patient monitoring approach also prevents more than 500 falls each month at the Minnesota health system. And it's improved staffing ratios – sometimes dramatically, depending on patient acuity.

Amazon Web Services has increased the total funding of the AWS Health Equity Initiative to $60 million and added a new funding area that seeks to address social determinants of health and climate change factors.

The FDA-cleared tool can help at-risk provider organizations reduce costs while improving patient outcomes through earlier lifestyle and treatment interventions, its inventors say.