Insider Intelligence February 23, 2022
The news: The American Medical Association (AMA) released a new report detailing how providers can boost adoption of telehealth and digital health tools and better integrate them into behavioral healthcare.
The roles different stakeholders can play: The report specifically details how different healthcare stakeholders can implement digitally enabled behavioral health solutions.
- Employers can reevaluate their cost-sharing policies to lower out-of-pocket costs for employees seeking behavioral healthcare. In addition, they can expand the primary care networks they contract with and adopt tech that enables smoother coordination among providers.
- Providers (physician practices, health systems, hospitals) can implement digital health solutions to boost communication between primary care specialists and behavioral health clinicians to improve behavioral health diagnoses and treatment rates. ...