Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

There’s an important backstory to this initiative that has important health and public policy implications. The company’s findings have l ed Smith to write in his company blog on 3rd December that, “we’ve learned that an effective solution to this problem requires targeted but limited public sector help.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Here is Omron’s blog written for #CES2018 on Going for Zero. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This blog appears today as part of a #HIMSS18 primer series for attendees, and the industry at large, to discuss major health IT issues that will help move health and healthcare delivery forward in 2018 – and beyond. Dealing with healthcare provider burnout due to bureaucratic tasks and high-expectation patient demands.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Today was Day 1 and I want to recap my learnings and share with you.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: When PatientsLikeMe was acquired by UnitedHealthcare earlier this year, my friends-in-health-tech Susannah Fox, Lisa Suennen and I wrote a response to the acquisition and situation on each of our blogs, and on Medium. Here’s the link to our post here on Health Populi, from July 1, 2019.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

adults conducted in December 2017 into January 2018. “If Congress ever repeals the Affordable Care Act, insurers could use the fitness data they’re collecting today to deny you coverage based on a medical condition that your tracker picks up,” Boyd warns in NPR’s Shots blog.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 15, 2019

Improving access to broadband services was the main topic of discussion at the 2018 Connected Health Conference, where Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai spoke about the benefits of broadband internet and telehealth. That’s why he’s trying to get Americans connected to the internet in greater numbers.

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Expanded fee-for-service reimbursement, such as the addition of CPT 99091 in 2018 and several additional codes that are currently in the proposed physician fee schedule for 2019 (specifically 990X0, 990X1 and 994X9), help bridge that gap. In essence, they help tie the canoes closer together (think bungee cords).

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Kentucky is in the process of crafting a new bill that would not only strengthen the state’s existing telehealth legislation, it would also create a cabinet-level department committee that would be responsible for overseeing and supporting all connected health programs, namely telehealth. Kentucky Doubles Down on Telehealth.

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American Well

MAY 16, 2017

To learn more about licensing, credentialing, and the ever-changing telemedicine landscape, visit the Center for Connected Health Policy. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. Together we provide a comprehensive acute care offering—a full end-to-end telemedicine solution for health systems and their providers.

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American Well

MAY 16, 2017

To learn more about licensing, credentialing, and the ever-changing telemedicine landscape, visit the Center for Connected Health Policy. Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. These questions are just a starting point.

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Digital Health Today

AUGUST 17, 2020

Tony’s work is part of a larger initiative, FutureProofing Healthcare, which began in 2018 as a way to benchmark various European countries’ healthcare systems, both in the present and in an uncertain future. Will APAC lead the way in reinventing tomorrow’s healthcare? The paper is available free of charge and can be downloaded here.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Get a cup of coffee and sit back, because this is a long one – not the usual short and sweet entry that each of us endeavors to craft on our respective blogs. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. Jane writes the Health Populi blog. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Bio and her Blog, Health Populi.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2019

The chaps were tongue-tied, and Stacey and I bonded at that moment and continue to be collegial friends and part of growing group of women-in-health-tech. Update on Stacey: she’s now Chief of Google’s Wear OS, part of Google’s ever-morphing health team). The Ava Fertility Tracker 2.0

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Digital Health Today

MARCH 13, 2020

However, most sessions focused on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). In 2018, the NHS had an 8.5% Alex Merwin is a technologist who publishes the LearnDigital.Health blog, helping healthcare professionals become digital experts. Here are the three most important themes that I took away from the day. Alex Merwin.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. JSK: You moved into the Amedisys organization in 2018 as Chief Information Security Officer. This thought has been on my mind well before the Change Healthcare hacks (that’s plural) with which U.S.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Lastly, we recently established the ECRI Guidelines Trust, a free repository of clinical practice guidelines as a replacement for the National Guidelines Clearinghouse which closed in 2018. Our Guidelines Trust assesses the evidence and processes used to develop guidelines by developers around the globe.

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care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

2017 and 2018 have been eventful years for advocates of digitally delivered healthcare, as government officials have moved more quickly and decisively than ever before to expand reimbursement for telehealth services (which in turn expands the availability of these services).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

OMRON’s HeartGuide earned FDA clearance for its blood pressure monitor worn on the consumer’s wrist, featured here in Health Populi in 2018. At CES 2023, OMRON will announce the company’s expanding efforts for remote heart-health monitoring (RHM) and clinical evidence generated through its launch of RHM.

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This blog post by Dr Joe Kvedar reflecting on Apple’s Health Record announcement makes for interesting reading ( I’m very optimistic about what this means for Patients and Carers ). mHealth Insight. “To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Or so it seems.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This blog, Health Populi, covers the intersection of health, people, technology, and economics. The issue of net neutrality and Everyday Peoples’ access to connectivity and broadband lies at the heart of this intersection.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Members can submit guest posts to our blog ( guidelines ). I was very fortunate to have attended the Society for Participatory Medicine’s (SPM) Second Annual Conference , in partnership with the Connected Health Alliance Conference, at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center on October 17, 2018. Join SPM here.

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