Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow police officers to use telehealth to help assess someone having a mental health crisis, rather than immediately taking that person into...
A California legislator has introduced a bill that aims to create a pediatric telehealth network to give children across the state better access to mental and behavioral healthcare.
AB 2464,...
Researchers at Texas A&M University are piloting an mHealth wearable platform designed to alert the user to symptoms of stress and anxiety and provide links to resources.
Led by Farzan Sasangohar,...
Faced with a nationwide opioid abuse crisis and a surge of people needing mental health services, states are moving to embrace telehealth as a means of expanding access to treatment. But the path to...
The Providence Health System is using telehealth to help its own care providers dealing with stress and burnout.
The Washington-based health system, comprising 51 hospitals in seven states, has...
Government leaders and health systems are finding that a comprehensive disaster relief strategy includes telemental health services.
Over the weekend New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a new...
Telehealth may be improving clinical outcomes, reducing costs and easing provider stress, but it’s also giving South Dakota state officials something else to smile about: the growing success rate...
South Dakota lawmakers have introduced a bill that would enable healthcare providers to use telehealth to evaluate patient under involuntary commitment for mental health issues.
SB 1, submitted this...
Researchers in North Carolina, Chicago and Toronto are collaborating on a large-scale study aimed at determining whether behavioral healthcare services delivered by telemedicine can help new mothers...
California lawmakers are pushing a bill to develop a statewide policy for telehealth and telemedicine that will give students remote access to mental health services.
AB 2315, which is now headed to...
In 2008, Colorado State University saw eight suicides over two semesters. Now the school is looking to mHealth to keep that from happening again.
The Fort Collins-based university, with an enrollment...
