Remote mental health treatment

With mental health issues on the rise, Kaiser Health News published a piece on the use of technology to help facilitate mental health treatment through telemedicine visits. Not surprisingly, reimbursement for telemedicine visits increased during the pandemic. Additionally, the article profiled some individual cases in which technology solved a real problem, whether that be access to a rural area or overcoming an individual's hurdles to getting ready and going out for treatment.

While much of medical treatment cannot yet be conducted remotely, telemedicine does seem like one promising way of streamlining health care, which will be an increasingly important issue in light of the projected upcoming shortage of qualified providers. Mental health care seems to particularly suited for remote visits.