By J.C. Adams and Tim Caver, MBA
For five years our startup team has been dedicated to expanding mental health care access for underserved communities, where Blacks often experience the greatest healthcare disparities. COVID-19 has shown us how those disparities translate to a disproportionate number of lives lost. The mental health impact of all these losses is incalculable.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a response to the COVID-19 outbreak and limited access to face-to-face care, the Cares Act5 has been a tremendous success in that loosened restrictions and increased reimbursement for telemedicine has allowed for a widespread growth of telehealth. However, higher rates of mental health and the need for preventive care will require telehealth solutions that are integrated with public and private institutions via electronic health records in order to support a continuum of care rather than acute-only. That will also require higher levels of personal data security such as is required in current provider-driven health records systems. Simply having video-conference and/or text/chat capability will likely not survive re-instituted patient-data regulations on telemedicine.
We all must do more. Cloud 9 will work diligently with communities to overcome barriers to care by making telehealth secure and accessible to every individual in need.
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Citations / Publications:
1 - Inequities Amplified by COVID-19: Opportunities for Medicaid to Address Health Disparities
3 - Scientific American: Mental Health after COVID-19
5 - American Medical Association: CARES Act: AMA COVID-19 pandemic telehealth fact sheet
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