Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Quincy has great trust in this health care system, appreciating that customization also takes into account peoples’ values, ethnicities, and clinical needs. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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JUNE 20, 2022

.” The KFF Survey wondered, “Who has health care debt?” ” Medical debt crosses age groups and race/ethnicity: while two-thirds of people who are Black and Hispanic in American had medical debt in the past five years, over one-half of White patients did, too.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

The vast majority of older people, across the age groups, use their smartphones every day: most commonly, to send or receive emails, to get directions or traffic information, or to surf the web for news, information, or social networking. Half of older people with a home assistant use them every day, across all age groups.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. We can see that health care spending varied by race and ethnicity after adjusting for age and medical conditions. Black and AI/AN people also have lower life expectancies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stacy Lindau, MD, founder of NowPow, discuss how connected care is boosting health equity efforts , and how patients and community organizations can be engaged to capitalize on its promise. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How CIOs can help shape strategy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” The researchers used spatial analysis to explore disproportionate mortality outcomes for COVID-19 experienced by different racial and ethnic groups: comparing overall death rates with those of Hispanic or Latinx, Non-Hispanic Black or African-American, and Non-Hispanic White populations. Underneath the overall statistic of 2.4

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But there are opportunities to learn from patients and advocacy groups at the meeting to inform the demand side of the health/care equation, and that’s crucial to understanding consumer experience, values and sense of value that enables people to get the care they need. That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

feel the stress compared with other age groups — with Gen Z and Gen Xers following. This group of highly-stressed people were also more likely to say they struggled to make basic daily decisions. While most people in the U.S. More Millennials, who generationally are sandwiched between older and younger people.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The conclusion: that “groups commonly targeted by voting restriction laws — those with low incomes, who are racial minorities, and who are young — are also less likely to be insured in states with more voting restrictions.”

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The report found three big shifts in global health citizens’ views on their personal health and health care delivery in the wake of the pandemic: Across all age groups, COVID-19 exacerbated peoples’ concerns about their physical and mental health in a very short time. in mid-June 2020.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Privacy and data security remain a major issue, which is a particularly challenging problem when it comes to consumer-facing health and wellness apps as discussed in this New York Times article, “When Apps Get Your Medical Data, Your Privacy May Go With It.” Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K.,

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In what has been described as a potentially-seismic shift in health policy, the American Heart Association and several other medical groups have changed the guidelines for the use of statins, a group of popular cholesterol-lowering drugs. If you have diabetes, don’t be surprised if your doctor prescribes statins in 2014.

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MAY 25, 2021

Payment arrangements and rates, from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance, shared-savings models, and other new-fangled reimbursement regimes, and, Social determinants of health of patient populations, dealing with health equity and barriers to care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a best practice, to understand state-specific policies, providers can check the Center for Connected Health Policy State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. [ii]. It is also recommended to review individual payer websites for any changes in telehealth policies for 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. The survey was conducted in December 2022 among a group of 1,001 U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. This last group, shareholders, has historically been Job #1 of the corporation in terms of most important stakeholders to serve.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

For 50 years, the group has been seeing families like Kelli Rutledge’s. The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. Autumn Road in Little Rock, Ark.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: VisitPay included this third line chart in the report, more closely looking at household income cohorts. In quintiles, 2017 median income ranged from the bottom fifth of homes with $13K, fourth group $35K, middle quintile $61K (close to the median overall), second group at $99K, and top at $221K.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

adults in February, June, and September 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health insurance, knowledge about purchasing health plans, and intent to purchase health insurance if lost during the pandemic. Civis Analytics polled 13,000 U.S. Our Zoom-based conversation is being held today at noon Eastern time.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Employment gains have been broad based across all racial and ethnic groups and levels of education. However, it remains lower than in most other advanced economies, and there are troubling labor market disparities across racial and ethnic groups and across regions of the country. The nation faces important longer-run challenges.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

Those most negatively affected by the pandemic tend to be younger, Gen Z age group and African-American, 63% of whom felt financial pressure directly due from the virus and the national economic lockdown. The analog here for the health consumer is that millions of U.S. Some 6 in 10 people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2020

What happens when you bring an amazing group of experts to talk about an important topic? That’s how I’d describe this National Patient ID virtual meetup we put together with our friends at NextGate.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The study was researched and written up by a team of COVID-19 National Preparedness Collaborators, led by Dr. Joseph Dieleman of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a group that has been long-tracking the coronavirus since its emergence.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The report dives into the stakeholder groups, offering market maps with examples of companies and innovators in each innovation space, from digital front doors like Dexcare, Phreesia and Doctor.com, scheduling access via Symplr, ZocDoc and DocASAP, and digital diagnosis and triage from Gyant and K Health, et.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The first chart illustrates data on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health across different population groups. could have a behavioral health need in 2021. Data indicate greater rates of binge drinking and insomnia, for example. Overall, 1 in 3 people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The inclusion of these codes in the proposed fee schedule – in addition to digital health reimbursement codes introduced over the past few years – is evidence that payment policies are beginning to catch up with consumer demand and advancements in technology.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Today I benefited from listening to Timothy Jost, professor emeritus of healthcare law at Washington and Lee University, and Stephanie Armour, health policy reporter at The Wall Street Journal. The session was sponsored by the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School.

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

” These findings came from a study from the Winterberry Group on “the evolving role of audience insight,” conducted in partnership with the IAB Data Center of Excellence and issued on March 5, 2019.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Currently, the Medicare program restricts telehealth payments by type of service provided, the geographic location where a service is delivered, the type of institution that delivers the service, and the type of health care provider. Fact Sheet (Center for Connected Health Policy). If the act passes the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

That sandbox includes health care providers and hospitals, physicians and ambulatory care sites, pharma and medical device companies, and indeed — patients, as well, who can improve in healthier lifestyles, self-care, and addressing risk factors under personal control when possible.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2022

. “Businesses can and should be responsible actors improving the quality of people’s lives and the environment, and as a result be forces for good in creating greater health equity,” Sir Michael writes in the forward to the report.

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