What You Should Know: Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the “Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications” – a temporary rule that extends telemedicine flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).· The temporary rule will take effect on May 11, 2023, and extends the full set of telemedicine flexibilities
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Mental Health
Apple Watch, Wearables Can Monitor & Access Psychological States
What You Should Know: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that applying machine learning models to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a patient's degree of resilience and well-being. The study, published in JAMIA Open, supports the use of wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, to monitor and assess psychological states remotely.The researchers note that mental health disorders account for 13 percent of the burden of global disease and
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Patient Violence is the Top Safety Concern For Healthcare Workers
What You Should Know: Patient violence is a top safety concern for healthcare workers, according to recent Motorola Healthcare Worker Safety report.Overall, the data shows that healthcare workers feel safe in their respective medical environments, but are grappling with safety issues that have dominated headlines in recent years. Those that have healthcare professionals most concerned include: patients becoming violent (72%), the impacts of burnout/mental health (61%) and active
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Oshi Health Raises $30M for Virtual Multidisciplinary Digestive Care
What You Should Know: - Oshi Health, the virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics raises $30M in Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Flare Capital Partners, Frist Cressey Ventures, CVS Health Ventures and Takeda Digital Ventures. - Oshi Health is currently available to over 20 million people as a preferred in-network virtual gastroenterology clinic for
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Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Clinics, Study Finds
What You Should Know: Audio-only telehealth visits for both primary care and mental health services remained common at safety net clinics in California since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The RAND study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that in August 2022 audio-only visits still accounted for 1 in 5 primary care visits and 2 in 5 behavioral health visits among people who received care at Federally
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FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety
What You Should Know: - Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, and FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center are teaming up to develop AI tools to extract and assess clinical notes to better understand drug safety. - Teaming with John Snow Labs, Cerner Enviza will use AI and NLP to develop tools to extract information from clinical notes within the EHR to better aid in better understanding the effects of medicines on large populations. The project known as the Multi-source Observational
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Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit
Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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How The Healthcare Industry Can & Should Be Supporting Unpaid Caregivers
Unpaid caregivers are the backbone of society, providing an essential service, yet often feel invisible and without support. In recent years, that backbone is starting to break with research showing that 70% of caregivers, including parents and caregivers of adults, have at least one significant mental health impact. Even more worrisome, the same study indicated that more than half (52%) of those considered part of the sandwich generation - caring for an aging parent and a child at the same time
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Rethinking Behavioral Health Support in the ED: 3 Keys for Innovation
About one out of five Americans with serious illness struggled to access care during the pandemic, and rates were significantly higher among disadvantaged populations, a 2022 study found. Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise, healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?” It's a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost. The High Cost of
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Exploring The Value of Metaverse Use Cases in Life Sciences
What once seemed like science fiction, interacting with people across the world has become the new normal. While we have become increasingly accustomed to video calls and instant communication in recent years, forays into virtual worlds and extended realities are still relatively novel. In a post-Covid world, it seems strange to think that video conferences and calls were not the norm only three years ago. But the value created by virtual interactions during the last several years has
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