Health Populi

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

While there are barriers preventing health systems and care providers from adopting consumer-focused measures for patient experience, those who have deployed these metrics can provide solid role models for advancing consumer-centered care. So why don’t more health systems track the consumer-centric metrics?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Let’s set the current context for these findings — set out in a summary here on the state of U.S. Importantly, see the orange bars in the graph illustrating that spending on health and personal care grew the most year-on-year versus 2022. Health Consumers in 2024 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge. McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act (i.e., California v.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. adults struggling to pay for health care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. visits per 100 member-years. visits per 100 member-years.

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Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy 359

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 8, 2024

Healthcare professionals have increasingly been exploring the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to revolutionize aspects of patient care, from streamlining administrative tasks to enhancing clinical decision-making. Despite their potential, language models can encode biases, impacting historically marginalized groups.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. Philips’ business, plans and projects had already been reshaping and redeploying due to the pandemic in Asia and Europe by then, Roy explained to me when we were finally able to recently convene by phone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

CPT 99453 covers the time it takes to enroll patients in RPM and get them set up on their devices. CPT 99457 is for spending a minimum of 20 minutes of clinical staff time providing care management services related to patient readings and their treatment plan. It can only be billed once per patient enrollment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jiang Li, CEO at Vivalink Healthcare is at a turning point, reshaping our view of what defines hospital care. The home has emerged as a fundamental care setting within the broader healthcare continuum, challenging the notion that care concludes at the hospital exit.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Alaina Victoria, PT, DPT, Marketing and Sales Enablement Manager at OneStep With more patients looking for novel care options, technology has stepped in to bridge the gap between in-person care and everyday life.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 24, 2024

A Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts policy that was set to begin Jan. | The health plan said its delaying implementation of its new monitored anesthesia care policy, just one month after we reported on patient advocacy groups' concerns over the policy.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. The highest charges came from patients age 51 to 60 years of age.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Telehealth Medicare Patient Experience Mental health 398

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2024

Together, these products reflect a shift in health care empowerment toward patients as consumers with greater autonomy over their health care when the products and services are accessible, affordable, and designed with the end-user central to the value proposition and care flows. consumers without a prescription.

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Telehealth Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Digital Health 193

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Kevin Riley , CEO and President at Zyter|TruCare In an era dominated by the complex challenges of chronic diseases, which account for approximately 90% of healthcare costs , a strategic approach to chronic care management (CCM) is essential.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care."

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Primary Care Mobile Health Mental health Healthcare IT 126

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today, artificial intelligence-powered telemedicine tools that remotely diagnose patients and route them to the proper care setting have begun popping up; they are designed to increase access to healthcare services and assist providers in making informed decisions, ensuring timely and appropriate care.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This paradigm shift is bringing with it a new era of technological synergy, in which AI systems collaborate, leading to exponential growth in capabilities Below are some topics with respect to the ‘AI to AI’ concept, examining its implications, potential applications and how it is set to redefine the landscape of technology and industry.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Over the last few years, Medicare Advantage plans have dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth systems for seniors. While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“The significant growth Cohere has experienced in the last four years demonstrates the high demand we are seeing from health plans and risk-bearing providers to combat antiquated prior authorization processes and to improve patient access and experience,” said Siva Namasivayam, Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Members can choose virtual care, allowing for high-quality care at a lower cost INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.

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Interoperability Connected Care Digital Health Health Information 88

Clear Arch Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

80-90% of health outcomes are determined by non-medical, social factors. Providing value-based, member-centric care t o address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) - via remote health monitoring services - can mitigate adverse impact to patients, and may help to ensure Medicare Advantage plan success.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Kidney disease affects 37 million adults in the United States but 90% are unaware 1 they even have it which makes it a silent killer,” said Dr. Liz Kwo, MD, MPH, MBA, Everly Health Solutions Chief Commercial Officer. “We The collection methods used for the Everly Health Kidney Health Test have a correlation of over 98.6%

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Remote care Medicare Digital Health Patient Experience 88

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the U.S. Clinician shortage, particularly acute in behavioral health, is a major factor in accomplishing the task of a new national drug registration program.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 28, 2023

Members can choose virtual care, allowing for high-quality care at a lower cost RICHMOND, Va.–(BUSINESS –(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia today announced its Anthem Link Virtual First health plans to eligible members in select commercial health plans.

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Interoperability Connected Care Digital Health Health Information 88

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2023

While facing rising costs and workforce shortages, healthcare systems across Asia-Pacific have been exploring ways to make healthcare services more accessible by shifting to a data and digital-enabled distributed model of care delivery, a new Philips report found.

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Digital Health Health Technology Public Health Telehealth 101

Digital Health Global

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a recent publication in The Lancet Digital Health , researchers Agustina Saenz, Emma Chen, Henrik Marklund, and Pranav Rajpurkar introduce the Medical AI Data for All ( MAIDA ) initiative, aiming to revolutionize the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging.

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Digital Health 88

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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Primary Care Digital Health Telemedicine Mental health 112

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Telemedicine in these areas provides chronic patients, for example, with access to medical specialists without traveling an extended distance, and can allow providers to identify particular social determinants of health such as lack of access to food. What is the state of remote patient monitoring in rural settings?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Pair that with a longstanding physician shortage and it could be a recipe for disaster in ERs and urgent care centers this winter. How can advances in remote patient monitoring have significant benefits for patients and providers with improved medical care and patient outcomes? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Karin Schifter-Maor is CEO of Essence SmartCare, a senior and chronic care technology and services company.

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