TBHI Telehealth Blog
Mental Health Care Providers’ Attitudes Toward Teletherapy and Telehealth Video Conferencing
Following the unprecedented uptake of telehealth approaches to behavioral health, satisfaction studies of...
CMS Final Rule Expands States’ Flexibilities for Network Adequacy and Telehealth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2020 Medicaid & Children’s Health Insurance...
Is Phone Therapy Really THAT Simple?
Video therapy conferencing has been a lifesaver to mental health clients and clinicians during the COVID public...
HIPAA Compliance: Why HIPAA Training is Not Enough
Many organizations looking to become HIPAA compliant start with training. HIPAA training is a good basis for...
New COVID-19 FCC Telehealth Grant
This week saw the return of the Federal Communications Commission Round 2 of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, a...
Transgender Telemedicine: Inequities and Barriers in Health Care Access
With the COVID-19 pandemic evolving rapidly across the world, most medical resources were focused on those people...
Controversy about Eliminating Telephone Telehealth Coverage
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association focused on telehealth use among the...
Healthcare Breaches: 40.7 Million Patients Affected
Each year Protenus, along with databreaches.net, conducts a breach report to assess the state of healthcare...
Important Telehealth Reimbursement Updates for Clinicians
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have...
Telehealth Legislation: Update for Telebehavioral and Substance Abuse Treatment
It is noteworthy that just one week prior to the official announcement of the Public Health Emergency caused by...
Behavioral Health Provider Fined for Right of Access Violation
On March 24, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its...
Telephone Telehealth Safety Procedures for Professionals
Mental healthcare providers have utilized telehealth to provide treatment throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to...
Telehealth Drones and Why They can Make a Difference
Just when clinicians are starting to get used to scheduling their video calls ahead of time and perhaps keeping...
Healthcare Hack Targets Mental Health Provider
AspenPointe Inc., a mental health and substance abuse provider, was targeted by a healthcare hack. The healthcare...
HIPAA and Social Media: The HIPAA-Compliant Social Media Guide
While social media has become common practice, HIPAA and social media are not necessarily associated in the eyes...
Texting and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA): What Providers Need to Know
As more and more patients/clients are using smartphones, telehealth providers and remote patient monitoring (RPM)...
Hybrid Counseling: Telehealth and In-Person Healthcare
Hybrid counseling refers to the combination of telehealth and in-person healthcare. Increasingly, both aspects of...
Often Undiscussed 2021 Telehealth Barriers
Prior to the pandemic, only 2.4% of employer health plans used telehealth in 2018. A few months into the...
Amazon to Expand Telehealth Services Nationwide
After many rumors, Amazon finally confirmed on Wednesday that the free telehealth services currently provided for...
UPDATE: Telemedicine Across State Lines Post-Pandemic
A silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the permission given to health care providers to render medical...
Health Breach of Email Affects Behavioral Health Organization
On February 26, 2021, Summit Behavioral Healthcare, LLC announced that they had suffered an email healthcare...