Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to a new AMA Policy Research Perspectives report videoconferencing is a favored means of patient consults for significant numbers of dermatology practices (87.3%), urologists (87.2%), pediatricians (82.9%) and cardiologists (82%). Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters). NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was also noted that the department did not manage implementation risks associated with temporary or permanent telehealth changes in accordance with its risk management policy. Still, both temporary and permanent expansion of MBS telehealth items were largely informed by "robust" policy advice and planning, the audit emphasised.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Shawn Valenta is vice president for healthcare cloud in clinical services at Wellpath. The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. What are a couple of the challenges of developing a national telehealth service?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The key difference between RPM and the new RTM codes is that RTM codes can specifically be used to monitor medication adherence, and can include instances when the patient self-reports clinically relevant health information, such as symptoms or side effects. According to the recent 2020 Digital Health Care Survey , U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

With that health privacy milestone in mind, now consider #HIMSS23, expected to attract around 40,000 attendees convening at the McCormick Place convention center. The meeting’s tagline this year is “Health That Connects + Tech That Cares.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Fewer consumers without access to DHRs rated their health care experience and quality as excellent, very good or good. 42% of consumers who track their health via digital tech do so because it’s convenient, 35% do so to learn more about themselves, and 34% say they feel more in control of their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Her main interest is developing programs and tools that address gaps in health services and healthcare quality.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

MIT alumnae launch inaugural venture capital fund focused on the collision of healthcare and technology NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Black Opal Ventures (BOV), founded by managing directors Dr. Tara Bishop and venture capitalist Eileen Tanghal, today announced their inaugural health-tech fund which has raised $58M to date.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 25, 2024

Carmona’s extensive experience in public health, clinical care, and health policy makes him an invaluable addition to our Advisory Board,” said Dr. Kelly Nguyen, CEO of DrKumo. I look forward to working with the team to enhance healthcare delivery for patients across the globe.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. 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.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

million span four regions – Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana and Texas – and four Health Equity Innovation Fund projects combatting loneliness and depression LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS and is focused on health equity, working to eliminate unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare. Grants totaling $12.9

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. In the U.S., Why has this been the case? Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Texas A&M Health’s Institute of Biosciences and Technology has long been a trailblazer in drug discovery, and now, in the heart of this resource-rich ecosystem of the Texas Medical Center, we’re taking it up a notch. president, MD Anderson. Contacts MEDIA Marcela Dwork TMCMedia@TMC.EDU

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. WHY IT MATTERS. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. ON THE RECORD.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2023

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Informatics Healthcare informatics, also known as health informatics or medical informatics, is the intersection of healthcare, computer science, and information technology. Health informatics research contributes to advancements in healthcare practices, treatment modalities, and public health policies.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. We have understood inequities and disproportionate enrollment in clinical trials existed, but nowhere could we find if patients of color had been directly asked: ‘why? Key findings in this year’s 2021 study were that: Inequities within the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The first chart comes out of the health care report, which was published in September 2020. Clinical, operational and core business technologies are also top-of-mind for capital spending in the wake of the pandemic. As we entered 2020 with an already-burned out and anxious clinical workforce, the pandemic has exacerbated that.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The idea of health care consumerism isn’t just an American discussion, Deloitte points out in its 2019 global survey of healthcare consumers report, A consumer-centered future of health. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Lord knows that through the bedlam of the past year-plus, there have been countless lessons to be learned in healthcare and health IT. They are: Andrew Buscemi, director of information technology at Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. ( @HolyokeHealth ). But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions.

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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. That’s a big if: in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The initial Series D funding round was announced in April and was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS), Trevor Fetter and existing investors. Jain, MD, MBA, president and CEO at SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. Fetter led one of nation’s largest for-profit health systems.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

More white patients prioritized the doctor’s ability to listen to my questions and thoughts and clinical experience. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Emotional support is just as important as medical support, Accenture observed in the Health and Life Science Experiences study conducted in 2021.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 5, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Remote consultations for outpatient care likely improve access and a number of clinical outcomes.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

” Furthermore, the study largely focused on patient travel: and this is only “one part of the picture,” the team advises, recommending that more research be done enlarging the impact of virtual care across the health delivery value chain of the clinical pathway beyond the scenario of patient travel.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last year, it was the employer who was the most-trusted touch-point in citizens’ lives the world over, I discussed in Health Populi one year ago. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Since CVS/pharmacy morphed into CVS/health when it quit tobacco five years ago in 2014 , I began to intuit a shift in the U.S.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Finally, is it scalable so it can grow with your needs and work with multiple clinical disciplines ? Practice sessions can test the functionality of different clinical situations and help staff feel comfortable using the solution. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. Talk to your IT team. Do test runs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Cosgrove recently left his CEO post at Cleveland Clinic, where he pioneered telemedicine and virtual health in and beyond the Cleveland target market to the larger healthcare ecosystem. Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 29, 2021

Health policy professional by training, clinical researcher by trade, and patient advisor by necessity, Richie Kahn is intensely passionate about incorporating the patient and caregiver perspective to accelerate clinical development and bring promising therapeutics and diagnostics to the patients who need them most.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In light of inflation and increasing health care costs among the OECD nations, of which the U.S. is one, “policy options remain limited” the Organization calls out, warning that the health care cost “spending spree” must now be tempered with greater efficiencies and wringing out wasteful spending.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care costs consume nearly one in every five dollars of the American economy. Fifty+ years ago, we conjured up bridges and roads for cars and trucks, telephone lines and dams. Enter the digital era, forcing a re-definition of what we mean by “infrastructure.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

My new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , launched this week. consumers, our homes, the healthcare system, and what we’ve learned in the first six months of the pandemic about all aspects of our health: physical, mental and emotional, financial, and societal.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

COVID-19 exacted a toll on health citizens’ mental health, worsening a public health challenge that was already acute before the pandemic. It’s World Mental Health Day , an event marked by global and local stakeholders across the mental health ecosystem.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

And for people earning low incomes, it’s no surprise that they are far less likely to report good health: here, health equity and disparities play out with respect to a key social determinant of health, income and job security. In 2023, it’s much harder to take care of my health, consumers say. In the U.S.,

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