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. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. These have negatively impacted older people and care for people at home in Great Britain. Here’s just one real-life scenario about baking health and social connection into public policy, across government siloes.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 29, 2018

In a healthcare system "designed to obfuscate," it's going to take collaboration and a focus on drug prices, administrative burdens and value-based care to lower costs for patients, experts said at a panel hosted by the Alliance for Health Policy last week.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power is that only one in ten Americans have ever used telehealth or virtual health to substitute for an in-person visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, ER or urgent care clinic in the past year. Three in four people said their health system or health plan did not offer telehealth services or they were unaware of it.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. The top ten were: AstraZeneca.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Everyday Health polled 6,700 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age about their perspectives on stress, anxiety, panic, and mental and behavioral health. One in three working-age people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The purpose of cross-collaboration is to improve aspects in digital healthcare, such as quality, outcomes, safety, interoperability, sustainability, and accessibility of care. But regulations, such as the Health ICT law, which was published in 2019, governed the way we access health-data using technology.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Compared with health citizens living in other wealthy countries, people living in the U.S. are still among the least likely to have a regular doctor or place to go for care. Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of emocha Health, a telehealth and remote patient monitoring company, to discuss these codes and their potential effects on healthcare. How will CMS' proposed remote therapeutic monitoring codes enhance patients' quality of care? consumers want virtual care services.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The fourth chart is a heat map that indicates high-risk states where existing rural hospitals are most vulnerable to closure based on the sixteen metrics. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The nine key high-impact factors suggest areas where rural hospitals could risk-manage for their survival. Telehealth, too, can serve rural U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. Virtual cardiology care company Heartbeat Health is working with Caption Health , which applies AI to heart ultrasounds, to make scans and follow-up appointments available via telehealth. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. Marc then presented an intriguing, if disturbing (to me), bar chart of “the future value of your data.” Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

home values, public transit use), and, Resource access (such as libraries and religious institutions, and employment rates for older people). Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S., Housing and transportation (e.g., Weaker ties to the community, and.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps.

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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. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis , a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Prioritizing patient needs topped the agenda at last month’s Value in Healthcare Initiative meeting, hosted by the Center for Total Health. Launched earlier this year, the Initiative is a collaboration between the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Azar II, U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Food — healthy, accessible, fairly-priced — is a key social determinant of individual health, wellness, and a public’s ability to pursue happiness. can learn from the food culture, policy and economy of Italy when it comes to health. Celsus composed De medicina largely based on the teachings of Hippocrates.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

We had a course called Health, Care & Society wherein students were challenged to learn and think about ethical issues, health policy principles and engaged in conversations on the role of medical providers in our communities. Rather – they were designed to optimize care (and the revenue that care creates).

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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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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Imagine that you are a tightly knit health system executive team. As with any team, you're constantly working to balance — in this case: care delivery, quality, financial sustainability, staffing and stature in your market, among other items. for a health system, it’s even more challenging. Put yourself in the CFO’s position.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Expect insurers to accelerate programs and policies that cut costs and to push for value-based contracting as consumers demand more transparency in healthcare pricing. The past year has been an eventful one for payers, from the tumultuous Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange markets to potential mega-mergers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. billion by the end of 2021.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. Value based payment models. Certainly this remains to be seen.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We will try a similar approach and move through 6 challenges present across the healthcare value chain. We can find academic research recommending that major health policies should emphasize reducing unhealthy lifestyles, dating three decades ago 3.

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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. This manifests a 9-in-10 household penetration for smartphones with an installed user base of 240 million U.S. 24% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future. adults 50 and over in February and March 2022, to gauge older peoples’ views on virtual care now and in the future. The study polled U.S. By ethnicity/race.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

The philosophy underneath Foogal is that “Our health is in our hands,” and the best medicine we have is food. These are to prevent disease, to reduce health care costs, to manage autoimmune conditions, and to promote well-being. There is a four-fold mission behind Foogal, set out in the second graphic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

[link] ; The US health care system relies heavily on private markets. While venture capital -backed startups in digital health offer opportunities to affect the cost and quality of care, often by challenging prevailing modes of care delivery, they pose potential risks to patient care and raise important questions for policy makers.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. The organization’s tagline: “Now prices are a patient’s right.”

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