Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The bill as currently drafted also offers expanded eligible practitioners; telehealth coverage and reimbursement for FQHCs and RHCs; a delay of the in-person telemental health requirement; provisions for audio-only telehealth; and use of telehealth to satisfy Medicare face-to-face telehealth requirements for hospice care.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Also, all telehealth services must meet the Medicare established set of criteria for reimbursement. Medicare defines a distant site as, “the site where the physician or practitioner, providing the professional service, is located at the time the service is provided via a telecommunications system.”. 8 AM – 4:30 PM CST).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S. This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Health Populi’s Hot Points: So, can the U.S. Joseph Health (literally “Ground Zero” for Patient 1 of COVID-19 in the U.S.) Clearly, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. On a daily basis, health care professionals are finding new ways to use telehealth technology to achieve positive outcomes for consumers. convenient.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another study I cite in the book from Market Strategies found that of people already purchasing products on Amazon, over one-half would trust Amazon for health care related products or services, and 39% would be willing to use the Amazon platform for prescription drugs instead of a retail pharmacy or online PBM channel.

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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. Meet our Premier Partners. Are you enjoying our podcasts?

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

pre-care cost estimates that are accurate (personalized based on their own health insurance plans), payment plans for paying medical bills over time, digital payment options (think: Venmo meets medical bills), a multi-purpose portal, and mobile access for both administrative tasks and care — that is, virtual care/telehealth.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Life expectancy in the U.S. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. Check with your payers.

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Xealth

MARCH 7, 2024

While fee for service still dominates, there were many more conversations about population health and reaching underserved groups. These collaborations are appearing stronger, especially among Medicare Advantage and direct to employer risk-sharing relationships.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

“ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny.

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care innovations

APRIL 25, 2018

million in telehealth claims per year “did not meet Medicare requirements,” the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has thrust new light upon America’s byzantine telemedicine reimbursement policies and the limitations they place on the expansion of value-based care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 14, 2023 News Epic-linked voice AI improves provider experience at Franciscan Missionaries The Louisiana health system is using the technology to help meet other Quadruple Aim goals of.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 8, 2018

. – April 24, 2018 – Smart Meter , an innovative diabetes management data, technology and solutions company, today announced that its iGlucose® Diabetes Care Solution meets the requirements for the newly created Remote Monitoring CPT Code, as defined by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Health data is patient generated.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reaches into the community and meets specific needs. Developing programs that meet specific needs will help ensure successful outcomes.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 15, 2020

Other Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) have created similar sites in response to the coronavirus outbreak in order to meet the needs of their clients as well. Here, you can also sign up for our weekly webinars ( Telehealth 101 and Telehealth Roundup ). Southeastern TRC (AL, GA, SC, FL). Mid-Atlantic TRC (KY, WV, PA, VA, NC, DE, MD, NJ).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Doctors aren’t alone in stretching these new muscles in learning to communicate and show empathy via Skype, Zoom, Microsoft Meetings, and telemedicine platforms. Communicating via video conference technology is not the same as in-person encounters, and older patients have identified this deficiency in the virtual visit in the U-M study.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. From simple DTC apps to all-in-one platforms, there are many telehealth options on the market – and not all of them will meet your program requirements. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. Evaluate telemedicine solutions.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

I discussed Costco’s approach to the pharmacy last month in Health Populi, asking the question, “What if Costco designed the prescription drug sales model?” government would have saved $2.6 billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

The theme of this year’s meeting says everything the Association should be focused on at this expansive-and-uncertain moment in virtual care: “Enabling Flexible, Inclusive and Contemporary Care Delivery.”

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Medicare restricts what telehealth services can be billed and limits telehealth access geographically.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. From simple DTC apps to all-in-one platforms, there are many telehealth options on the market – and not all of them will meet your program requirements. Understand reimbursement and licensing basics.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. And these changes are here to stay.”.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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