Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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Telehealth Medicare Remote care Public Health 119

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Telehealth happens across the U.S. Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data.

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Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2022

A new documentary and educational campaign on health equity will be launched on May 1st, 2022, from Oprah’s Harpo Productions studio partnering with The Smithsonian Channel. Black maternal mortality is but one of a long list of health disparities and inequities in the U.S. ” In parallel, Rep.

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Public Health Telehealth Health Policy 296

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

Telemedicine 344

Telemedicine Health Policy Public Health Digital Health 344

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

Medicaid Telehealth has emerged as a crucial component in extending and facilitating access for individuals with behavioral health needs. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of telehealth to deliver healthcare services safely and effectively.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 96

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

In part, these health outcomes can be significantly influenced by factors both within the health care system as well as the environment, social care, and other drivers of health (those social determinants of health we cover here in Health Populi as core to our wheelhouse and advisory work). health care system?”

Nursing 156

Nursing Health Policy Public Health Digital Health 156

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare. Community and social context, enabling engagement and decreasing isolation’s impacts. Food systems, and finally.

Digital Health 374

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Primary Care 374

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Public Health Mental health Medicare Primary Care 314

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

We do this exercise to immerse ourselves in the different worlds, each of which tease out different ways the driving forces could play out for the person—and then test our strategy (ies) against the alternatives to ensure we are covering our bases, strategically, tactically – to not get caught too-off-guard by surprises in the market.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Public Health 220

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S. Trust is in short supply in the U.S.

Health Data 170

Health Data Digital Health Health Information Public Health 170

Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Public Health Digital Health Primary Care Telehealth 41

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.

Telemedicine 156

Telemedicine Public Health Life Science Remote care 156

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

Telehealth 41

Telehealth Primary Care Medicare HIPAA 41

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. The quantifiable benefits of rural telehealth are transportation cost savings, lost wages savings, hospital cost savings, and increased revenues to local labs and pharmacies, NTCA calculated.

Digital Health 154

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Health Information 154

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. We then came full circle to my initial question: why the re-branding strategy, moving from “ConsejoSano” to “SameSky Health?”. People are being held to account in a way they weren’t before,” he observes.

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Telemedicine Connected Health Health Data Public Health 283

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Among the 26% of US broadband households that purchased a connected device during the COVID-19 crisis (between February 2020 to May 2020), the leading reasons given for purchase were for entertainment, to help someone work from home, and to help someone in the home complete schoolwork remotely,” the report noted.

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Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 182