Kaiser Family Foundation: Rise in Use of Mental Health Apps Raises New Policy Issues During the PHE, many federal and state health care requirements were waived in an attempt to expand access to digital behavioral health services such as mental health apps. This Issue Brief looks at how federal PHE waivers may have expanded [...]
JAMA Network: Expansion of Telehealth Availability for Mental Health Care After State-Level Policy Changes From 2019 to 2022 A JAMA Network Open study by researchers from Harvard and the Rand Corporation found that the number of sites offering telehealth for mental health went from 39.4 percent in the second quarter of 2019 to 88.1 percent [...]
University of Alabama at Birmingham: Telehealth's Growth During the Pandemic Expanded Mental Health Accessibility A study published in the Journal of Counseling & Development found that overall mental health care accessibility took a step forward during the pandemic due to telehealth. The study aimed to understand whether or not patients seeking mental health care services, like therapy or [...]
JAMA Health Forum: Overall and Telehealth Addiction Treatment Utilization by Age, Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status in California After COVID-19 Policy Changes This cohort study found that disparities in addiction treatment utilization were not exacerbated following expansion of telehealth during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers examined whether there were differences [...]
BMC Psychiatry: Mental Health-Related Telemedicine Interventions for Pregnant Women and New Mothers A study published in BMC Psychiatry indicated that telehealth interventions evaluated in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can help treat common maternal mental health challenges. Researchers conducted a systematic literature review that focused on a primary and secondary objective: the first is whether telehealth [...]
Journal of Medical Regulation: Increasing Access to a Diverse Mental Health Workforce Through Emergency Reciprocity Licensure New Jersey's COVID-19 Temporary Emergency Reciprocity Licensure Program provided temporary licenses to more than 31,000 out-of-state health care practitioners, over a quarter of whom were mental health providers. As the need for mental health care accelerated during [...]
The Commonwealth Fund: How Primary Care Physicians Experience Telehealth According to a Commonwealth Fund survey of primary care physicians in 10 countries, telehealth platforms have been relatively easy to implement, and most clinicians are satisfied with the technology. In at least half the countries surveyed, including the U.S., most physicians said telehealth improved timeliness [...]
Alma: Expanding Care with Teletherapy Alma, a digital health company, surveyed over 200 therapists and found that nearly 9 in 10 of its therapists want to be able to provide care across the country if their license enabled them to provide care nationwide. The survey also found 67 percent of therapists have already pursued or [...]
American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC): Provision of Telemental Health Before and After COVID-19 Onset This study aimed to examine the organizational characteristics associated with telemedicine services provided by mental health care organizations before and after onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This study found that telemedicine availability in mental [...]
Medical Care: Health Care–Related Practices in Virtual Behavioral Health Treatment for Major Depression Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic This study found that the shift to virtual health care resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic led to positive outcomes related to engagement for patients with depression and those in need of behavioral health care. Researchers [...]