School-Based Telehealth

Washington Lawmaker Will Try Again for Telehealth Payment Parity

by Eric Wicklund

A Washington lawmaker is preparing to resubmit bills aimed at mandating payment parity for telehealth and expand school-based telehealth programs. The two bills were part of a four-bill package...

Avera, Tyto Care Team Up to Make Telehealth Visits More Comfortable

by Eric Wicklund

One of the challenges in developing telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs outside the hospital is finding a platform that almost anyone can use comfortably. The programs will only work if...

School Telehealth Program Reduces ED Visits for Students With Asthma

by Eric Wicklund

School districts are increasingly turning to telehealth to help students with chronic conditions, such as diabetes and asthma. The latest example comes from South Carolina, where an analysis of three...

Nevada FQHC Using DHS Grant to Launch School Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

A community health center network in Nevada is using a $1 million state grant to create a telehealth platform that will eventually reach almost 40 schools. Nevada Health Centers, a federally qualified...

Spectrum Health Launches School-Based Telehealth Pilot Program

by Eric Wicklund

Michigan’s Spectrum Health is piloting a school-based telehealth program that aims to give rural high school students better access to telemental health services. Greenville Public Schools is...

Oklahoma Modifies ‘Parental Bill of Rights’ to OK Telehealth in Schools

by Eric Wicklund

Students returning to school in Oklahoma this upcoming year will have an opportunity to use telehealth, thanks to legislation passed this summer. SB 575, passed almost unanimously in the state Senate...

mHealth Unit Helps Dayton Schools Improve Asthma Care, Save $250K

by Eric Wicklund

Dayton Public Schools saw roughly $250,000 in reduced healthcare costs in one year through an mHealth program aimed at helping students living with asthma improve their care management. The Ohio...

Ohio Governor Pitches $15 Million to Improve Telehealth in Schools

by Eric Wicklund

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is directing the state’s Medicaid program to spend $15 million on improving telehealth access for school children in need of mental health services. While the proposal...

Georgia Schools to Use Telemedicine for Concussion Testing, Treatment

by Eric Wicklund

Roughly 6,000 high school students in Georgia will have access to a telehealth platform for concussion testing and treatment this fall, part of a national trend toward using connected health platforms...

Florida School Year Opens With Telehealth Stations at 60+ Schools

by Eric Wicklund

More than 60 schools in Florida’s panhandle region have new telehealth services in place for students as they begin the new school year today. The connected health portals, offering students an...

Cleveland Hospital Extends DTC Telehealth Services to College Students

by Eric Wicklund

A Cleveland-based health system is partnering with two health plans to extend its direct-to-consumer telehealth service to college students in four states. MetroHealth announced this week that its...

Can The BIG Act Give School-Based Telehealth a National Platform?

by Eric Wicklund

An innovative telehealth program developed in Texas that extends telemental health services into schools could be headed for the national stage, thanks to a bill now before Congress. Introduced last...

Florida OKs New Telehealth Law, Eyes New Services For School Children

by Eric Wicklund

Just one day after signing off on new telehealth legislation, Florida’s First Family is putting connected health to work to help thousands of public school students dealing with behavioral health...

Healthy Minds Creators Unveil mHealth Resource for College Students

by Eric Wicklund

The creators of an annual national survey assessing mental health among college students are rolling out an mHealth tool aimed at giving them on-demand resources. The digital health platform, called...

Texas School Telehealth Plan Survives a Hectic Night in Austin

by Eric Wicklund

A Texas bill to create a statewide telehealth network for school-based mental health services may soon become law despite a last-minute attempt to scuttle the plan. SB 10, sponsored by State Sen. Jane...

A Rural School District Uses Telehealth to Access Mental Health Care

by Eric Wicklund

A rural North Dakota school district located hundreds of miles from the nearest psychiatrist will be using telehealth to improve student access to behavioral health services and support its on-site...

Texas Mulls Telehealth Pilot for Early Childhood Intervention Services

by Eric Wicklund

Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would create a statewide telehealth pilot program for early childhood intervention services, with providers reimbursed through Medicaid. HB 12 would, if...

Michigan School District Uses Grants to Launch a Telehealth Program

by Eric Wicklund

A southeast Michigan school district is using two $100,000 grants to launch a telehealth program that put telemedicine kiosks in each elementary school. Monroe Public Schools used the first grant,...

Federal Grants to Boost Telehealth in School-Based Health Centers

by Eric Wicklund

More than 100 school-based health centers across the country are getting federal funding to develop telehealth and mHealth platforms for mental health, substance abuse, and childhood obesity-related...

Telehealth Gives College Students a Discreet Path to Counseling

by Eric Wicklund

Healthcare providers are discovering that a telehealth platform is an effective forum for connecting with college students dealing with stress and other mental health issues. “It can introduce a...

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