Telemental Health

Telemental Healthcare Use Varies Across Sociodemographic Lines

February 12, 2024 - Patterns in the use of audio-only or video-based telehealth to receive mental healthcare are mixed, differing based on age, sex, education, income, and location, according to new research by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study...


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Female mental health specialists and those working in highly populated counties with higher real estate prices were more likely to shift their practice fully to telehealth in 2022 than their peers,...

Senators Reintroduce Bill to Ease Telemental Healthcare Access

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A group of bipartisan senators have reintroduced a bill to expand access to virtual mental healthcare services for Medicare beneficiaries. The Telemental Health Care Access Act aims to remove the...

Palliative Care via Audio-Only Telehealth Boosts Quality of Life  

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A team providing palliative care via audio-only telehealth helped improve the quality of life for adults with chronic conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure, and...

Counties with Urgent Mental Healthcare Needs Face Telehealth Barriers

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Though telehealth can help expand mental healthcare access, United States counties where mental health resources are low tend to also lack broadband internet access, hampering telehealth use, according...

New York AG Orders Cerebral to Pay for Cumbersome Cancelation Process

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Following an investigation by New York’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG), telemental healthcare provider Cerebral must pay $740,000 in penalties and restitution for continuing to charge...

Psychiatrists’ Telehealth Use ‘Well Above’ Other Specialists

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Psychiatrists were the top users of telehealth in 2022, with 83 percent saying they had conducted a video visit the week prior in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey. The AMA released a...

NIH-Funded Study to Assess Telehealth Use in Predicting Autism

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has granted California-based researchers a five-year, $3.2 million grant to study whether the likelihood...

How a Provider-Police Collab is Expanding Virtual Mental Health Access

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Law enforcement officers play an increasingly pivotal role in connecting people with mental health conditions to healthcare services. However, amid strained resources and hospital capacity problems, law enforcement often lacks efficient...

With Digital Access, Telemental Health Benefits Youth on Medicaid

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A bipartisan group of four senators reintroduced legislation that would eliminate barriers to the virtual prescription of medication for opioid use disorder (OUD). Called the Telehealth Response for...

High Telehealth Use Linked to More Visits for Serious Mental Illness

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