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Telemental Health and Tele Therapy Lead Telehealth Expansion
During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemental health and tele therapy became the second-most popular telehealth practice in August 2020 and held that...
Using Telemedicine Services to Improve Sleep
Royal Philips, an international health technology company, released a recent report Seeking Solutions: How COVID-19 Changed Sleep Around the World,...
Information Blocking and Health Records Access Update
In the US, April marked a shift in how clients and patients will eventually access their own health records from their smartphones. The 21st Century...
Best USB Microphone for Zoom – Top 5 of 2021
As countries worldwide extend Public Health Emergencies due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, physical interaction remains restricted. As a result, most...
Best Home Office Desk – Top 5 of 2021
If you are working from home or have your own office space, having the right furniture is important. The unfortunate surge of Covid-19 cases around...
Social Media Guidelines Adopted by ASPPB
The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), the national organization for psychology regulatory/licensing boards in Canada...
Mental Health Care Providers’ Attitudes Toward Teletherapy and Telehealth Video Conferencing
Following the unprecedented uptake of telehealth approaches to behavioral health, satisfaction studies of telehealth video conferencing, telephone...
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 Program (CHIP) Managed Care Final...
Is Phone Therapy Really THAT Simple?
Video therapy conferencing has been a lifesaver to mental health clients and clinicians during the COVID public health emergency. However, it does...
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 HIPAA compliance as it provides an...
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 $249.95 million federal initiative...
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 infected with the virus....
Controversy about Eliminating Telephone Telehealth Coverage
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association focused on telehealth use among the low-income population in California. 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 cybersecurity. Their 2021 Breach...
Important Telehealth Reimbursement Updates for Clinicians
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have dramatically expanded coverage and...
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 COVID-19 in march of 2020, the AMA...
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 latest right of access violation...
Telephone Telehealth Safety Procedures for Professionals
Mental healthcare providers have utilized telehealth to provide treatment throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to make care at home more accessible and...
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 digital notes, even newer technology...
Healthcare Hack Targets Mental Health Provider
AspenPointe Inc., a mental health and substance abuse provider, was targeted by a healthcare hack. The healthcare hack, which allowed unauthorized...
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 of many professionals. In most...