Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy. versus beyond."

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

billion has been invested in mental health digital health cumulatively from 2017 to H1 2021. The leader of the ATA (American Telemedicine Association), Ann Mond Johnson, has a mantra that #TelehealthIsHealth. Now, on to scaling this for all who need access to quality, truly accessible mental and behavioral health services.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. The goal of identifying human factors is to optimize improved outcomes in telemedicine. Track A: Emergency Care and Management.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) has also published its annual State. Legislation Roundup.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In this post, I’m considering the home as health platform, room-by-room and in the context of continuity of health care and wellness.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. healthcare system.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

." Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi, Honorable Minister of State, Public Health and Primary Health Care, Rwanda Digital Health Innovation in Rwanda Let's explore 5 examples of Digital Health innovation in Rwanda ranging from artificial intelligence and machine learning to blood delivery by drones and telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

And they could exacerbate a public health crisis that is already threatening to spiral out of control. Test samples will be sent to whichever private laboratories have capacity, patients will be transferred from overloaded hospitals to less-crowded locations and physicians and nurses will make greater use of telemedicine.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I I worry about how well these practices will be able to shoulder the financial burden to be able to meet the health care needs people have,” he said. “If

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Henry Kotula

MAY 23, 2020

Worksite health, telemedicine, and direct primary care arrangements are all on the table. Timing is critical, and it may be smaller businesses that have the ability to change more quickly. Large companies have mostly locked in their benefits for 2021, whereas many mid-market businesses are looking for alternative options now.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Those in complete isolation actually came to look forward to Zoom meetings and telemedicine appointments. And tech-slow people like my grandmother probably wouldn’t have made it through without the good folks at the local public library loading her loans into the trunk through a touch-free lending system.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Payment parity —where telehealth is reimbursed at the same level as an in-person visit— is a crucial issue that must be addressed and instituted beyond the current public health emergency. Permanent All-Payer Parity For Telehealth Reimbursement.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

Bill and I are doing all of our meetings via video teleconference. Unless you get further disease, you then get telemedicine. You figure out if you need to go to the health system. And you have different tiers of the health system, places people can go for oxygen versus people who go to the ICU.

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