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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Those born before 1985 are generally considered as digital immigrants, so people aging into Medicare today are certainly in that cohort.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. What is the point of sneering at older people? This is laudable. With persuasion?

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The ATA hosts an annual telehealth conference each year and provides educational resources on its website.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

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How the Latest Pandemic Relief Bill Effects Telehealth

Mend

Telehealth advocates aren’t impressed with the lack of support for connected health services in the latest pandemic relief package. And it eliminates geographic restrictions for the mental health treatment delivered via telehealth , while also allowing patients to be treated in their homes. To be fair, the news wasn’t all bad.