Behavioral Health Business September 30, 2022
Chris Larson

Telehealth in behavioral health is here to stay.

The behavioral health industry must now double down on efforts to ensure post-COVID era telehealth regulations don’t inadvertently make telehealth a second-class care modality, according to a panel at the Behavioral Health & Well-Being Congress.

“We are in a chicken and an egg situation where if we’re concerned about telehealth and we put a bunch of restrictions on telehealth … we will create the [situation] that we were worried about because then we create telehealth that is substandard care and then it can’t be equal to in-person care,” Chris Adamec, vice president at the advocacy group Alliance for Connected Care and the health care-focused lobbying firm Sirona Strategies, said.

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Topics: Digital Health, Health IT, Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth
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