mHealth Intelligence (10/31, Vaidya) reports, “Receiving care from medical practices with higher telehealth use is associated with an increase in mental health visits among Medicare patients with serious mental illness, according to a” study published in JAMA Health Forum. In the study, researchers found that “compared to the number of mental health visits observed among practices with the lowest telehealth use, patients who received care at middle telehealth use practices had 1.11 more mental health visits per year, and patients who received care at the highest telehealth use practices had 1.94 more visits per year.”
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— “High Telehealth Use Linked to More Visits for Serious Mental Illness,” Anuja Vaidya, mHealth Intelligence, October 31, 2023