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Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI to Deny Care

Digital Health Wire

It’s a tough week to be working PR at Medicare Advantage plans after STAT put out an in-depth investigation revealing that payors are using “unregulated predictive algorithms under the guise of scientific rigor” to cut off care for seniors. Elevance, Cigna, and CVS Health have all made acquisitions in the space.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. While Apple product purchases in 2015 were.

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare. About Canvas Medical.

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Cigna and Humana Eye Blockbuster Merger

Digital Health Wire

The glaring white space in that portfolio happens to be one of the biggest growth engines for insurers, the Medicare segment. While Cigna’s been trying to build momentum in Medicare Advantage since picking up HealthSpring in 2011, just this month it announced that it’s “ evaluating options ” to offload its underperforming MA unit.

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The Key is Value-Based Care

Connected Health Initiative

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

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The Value-Based Care Revolution Will Stall Without Health Tech

Connected Health Initiative

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum. Congress and the U.S.