Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults Through an environmental scan and key informant interviews with clinical experts and people with lived experience of being diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, this report explored the process by which ADHD is diagnosed in adults, barriers and facilitators to diagnosis, [...]

2025-05-05T15:23:53-04:00January 13th, 2025|

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivered via Video Telehealth in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivered via Video Telehealth in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, veterans began to initiate general mental health services delivered via video telehealth at high rates. [...]

2025-05-05T15:32:53-04:00January 9th, 2025|

Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC): Maximizing the Value of Remote Patient Monitoring

Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC): Maximizing the Value of Remote Patient Monitoring The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) released a health explainer, which offered evidence-based strategies to maximize the value of remote patient monitoring, a digital service that transmits patients’ at-home data to health care providers. The explainer recommends policymakers to focus on four key areas: [...]

2025-05-05T15:31:05-04:00January 9th, 2025|

JAMA Network: Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom – Response and Reply

JAMA Network: Interstate Telemedicine in the Courtroom – Response and Reply Barak Richman, a professor at the Duke Law School, published a viewpoint analysis in August urging for state medical boards to permanently adopt the pandemic flexibilities that supported interstate telemedicine. Charles Kels, senior attorney at the Department of Homeland Security, published a response, [...]

2025-05-05T15:44:50-04:00January 8th, 2025|

JAMA Network Open: National Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program and Primary Care Quality in the VHA

JAMA Network Open: National Telehealth Contingency Staffing Program and Primary Care Quality in the VHA The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched the Clinical Resource Hub (CRH), a national telehealth contingency staffing program, to address primary care staffing shortages and improve veteran access to primary care. The study found veterans receiving primary care services through [...]

2025-05-05T15:50:01-04:00January 7th, 2025|

Frontiers: Addressing Barriers to Equitable Telehealth for Older Adults

Frontiers: Addressing Barriers to Equitable Telehealth for Older Adults Aging is associated with the development of chronic conditions and multimorbidity, which led older adults to incur, on average, $5,277 in medical expenses in 2022. Telehealth is a particularly useful tool in helping manage many chronic conditions, particularly when it can be delivered at lower [...]

2025-05-05T15:51:56-04:00January 6th, 2025|

ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth

ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth ASPE released a study, which examined the extent to which Medicaid providers who deliver behavioral health services shifted their practices to mostly tele-behavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that the proportion of providers who delivered more than 80% [...]

2025-05-05T15:25:46-04:00January 3rd, 2025|
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