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How Essen Health Care used an AI virtual care assistant to make thousands of patient calls in just days

Healthcare It News

"Members who recently were discharged from the hospital or who are part of a special program could participate in our Transition of Care program with more frequent calls to identify acute needs for care coordinators and prevent rehospitalization." The campaign is still under a pilot model led by one of Essen's RN supervisors.

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State Policy Considerations to Support Equitable Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs 

NASHP

32, 33 Primary and specialty providers across the state engage through the Statewide Quality Improvement Network to learn about innovations and strategies to expand the use of telehealth and telemedicine for improving access to specialty care.

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Reimagining our Approach to the Mental Health Crisis with Dr. Helen Egger | E. 85

Vie Healthcare

50% of adult mental health disorders start before the age of 14, but we put most of our effort and our dollars into older children and into adults, and we’re not focusing on where we can make a difference with early intervention and prevention. I think it’s a big question, can you do telemedicine in early childhood mental health?

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What an eventual end to the PHE would mean for telehealth

Healthcare It News

During a recent American Telemedicine Association policy update, the ATA's federal and state-level telehealth policy experts described efforts to develop a consistent regulatory framework so telehealth can be deployed across states and fully leveraged and address the patchwork of 50 different state requirements.