Hospitals, local officials and academics united to create a novel system to monitor hospital capacity in Austin, Texas, that helped the capital city keep COVID-19 deaths lower than in other Texas cities.
A key part of teletherapy companies’ value proposition is their ability to increase access. But some experts wonder if these startups will eventually make it harder for individuals to see mental health providers in person.
According to a 2021 RAND Corp. study, drug prices on average in the U.S. are 2.5 times those paid by 32 other nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
As the healthcare delivery system continues its slow march toward value-based care, improving health equity is quickly becoming a business imperative for governing boards.
Since Jan. 1 to deadline, 21,624 people have died from gun injuries in the U.S. More than 1,100 of those deaths were suicides. Gunshot wounds have killed 143 children under the age of 11 and 596 teens between the ages of 12 and 17.
Payers face some critical considerations as they work to scale up access to mental health services.
Physicians, who typically see cost-of-living pay increases each year, generally experienced much more modest salary gains last year.
As more mental health and digital therapeutics startups enter the market, experts say payers must demand that these businesses compete to be in their networks based on patient outcomes and return on investment.
"During the opening and closing of our COVID hospital (we were open for 12 months), we learned a new level of agility. We took the lessons we had been learning from Lean around continuous improvement and letting the people who do the work design the work. We put that into action at a higher level."
Well before the pandemic, many of America’s 4 million nurses had physical and mental health burdens tied to their jobs while the institutions that employ and train them overlooked or failed to prioritize these problems.
