Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The defendants ordered unnecessary tests that were reimbursed by Medicare, with laboratories sharing the profit, DOJ says. Department of Justice has charged 35 people with unlawfully charging Medicare $2.1 billion in claims to the Medicare program. WHAT’S THE IMPACT. The DOJ Criminal Division, along with the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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LinkousThink

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here is the first of three pieces on where we have been in 2010 and where we are going next year for telemedicine. For telemedicine, 2010 appears to have been a watershed year - the point when many in charge of government healthcare programs finally started to seriously consider the benefits of such technology.

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Telemedicine Medical Technology Medicare 28

LinkousThink

AUGUST 7, 2011

For years we talked about reaching the point when telemedicine services became self-sustaining outside of temporary grants, going from promise to reality. We have long passed the point of telemedicine being a new application. Medical systems are integrating remote health care into the normal delivery of care.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market.

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Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology 193

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. The Trump Administration supports increased use of Medicare Advantage and expanding consumer choices.

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