Minded, a psychiatry-focused telehealth company specializing in managing mental health medication for consumers, has raised $25 million in seed funding. Launched in 2021 in New York, Minded provides consumers with access to online psychiatry.
Nationally, telehealth utilization has stabilized at 38 times the rate of pre-pandemic levels, with up to 50% of all psychology and 30% of substance use disorder service claims now being rendered by telehealth.
A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last year.
Telemedicine appears to be a key to reducing racial inequities in follow-up care after hospitalization, according to numbers collected amid the pandemic by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Building a national network of physicians and clinicians into an on-demand hybrid telehealth/in-home model is a colossal undertaking, requiring a great deal of training and monitoring.
Two years after health systems went virtual almost overnight, industry watchers are still disputing a key aspect that could determine telehealth's fate: whether the option for virtual visits means patients will see doctors more often than they would in-person.