South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – November 2017 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.

Telemedicine 49

Telemedicine Telehealth Nursing Health Policy 49

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

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. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. This is laudable. Just saying.

mHealth 100

mHealth Connected Health Medicare Nursing 100

Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

When health systems work to implement a new platform, not only do they need to ensure new platforms integrate into their current technologies, but they also must get team buy-in and ensure it makes their workflows and systems easier — not more complicated. Additionally, what is the usability like?

EMR 52

EMR Telehealth Interoperability Psychiatry 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As workers bear a greater financial risk for covering their and their families’ healthcare costs, how to bend that cost curve downward? This coverage line item is fast-growing, from the 27% low mark in 2015 of large companies covering telemedicine to 63% in 2017 and 74% in 2018.

Telehealth 157

Telehealth Telemedicine Medical Billing Health Data 157

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Rock Health has gauged consumes’ digital health adoption fo a few years, showing year-on-year growth for “Googling” health information, seeking peer patients’ physician and hospital reviews, tracking activity, donning wearable tech, and engaging in live telehealth consultations with providers, as the first chart shows.

HIPAA 196

HIPAA Telehealth Digital Health Health Data 196

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 30, 2018

It’s not a bad thing and there are lots of very useful, educational and productive telehealth meetings to choose from and attend. If you have been looking for a meeting that has its complete focus on education and research in telehealth, there is a new society with an annual meeting that just might fit the bill.

Telemedicine 67

Telemedicine Connected Health Telehealth 67

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. To supplement information provided in the webinar, the South Central Telehealth Resource Center would like to share information and resources regarding national and regional changes that may be helpful to you. Go to the Medicare Telehealth Services section.

Telehealth 54

Telehealth Medicare Nursing Telemedicine 54

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

Telehealth 57

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Primary Care 57

care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

Telehealth 45

Telehealth Nursing Primary Care Medicare 45

Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 million units with revenues of $4.5 billion.

Life Science 436

Life Science Digital Health Public Health EHR 436

care innovations

OCTOBER 24, 2018

At the recently concluded Connected Health Conference in Boston, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a keynote speech expressing his agency’s dedication to expanding federal funding for key telehealth initiatives, along with a few new proposals for accomplishing them.

Telehealth 40

Telehealth Connected Health Health Policy Connected Care 40

care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

2017 and 2018 have been eventful years for advocates of digitally delivered healthcare, as government officials have moved more quickly and decisively than ever before to expand reimbursement for telehealth services (which in turn expands the availability of these services). Reimbursement for Telehealth Services Rapidly Expanding.

Telehealth 40

Telehealth Medicare Connected Health mHealth 40

Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

Patient Experience 170

Patient Experience Public Health Mental health Connected Health 170

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A massive nationwide scale-up of telehealth and remote patient monitoring unlike anything yet seen. It comes as little surprise that the top story on this list explores the dimensions of a theretofore much-discussed but underused modality of care: Telehealth. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration.

Healthcare IT 187

Healthcare IT Public Health Interoperability Telehealth 187

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leslie Morland continued to push the event pass the starting line with her plenary talk, Virtual Mental Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: An Immediate Response to COVID-19 , which was all the more pertinent since it was Veteran’s Day. Since March of this year, out of 180 women, only 2 were born pre-term.

Telehealth 85

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Public Health 85

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

That hasn’t yet been available to those of us who quantify our steps, weight, sleep, food intake, and other health metrics. In 2017, Hugh Langley wrote in Wareable that, “blood pressure is wearable tech’s next challenge.” Knowing your blood pressure is an important step for managing the risks of heart disease.

Digital Health 204

Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. adults; the poll was fielded in 2017.

Digital Health 128

Digital Health Health Information Health Data Telemedicine 128

Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2018

Will people connect dots between their Facebook lives – and their identities on social networks, generally – with their personal health information, privacy and security? Health information breaches are more highly valued by cyber-attackers as they are worth more than, say, consumers’ bank account or credit card identities.

HIPAA 180

HIPAA Health Information Connected Health Digital Health 180

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM.

Nursing 152

Nursing Medicare Connected Health Leadership 152

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Let’s call out the two keywords in this phrase: Concern + Embrace. .

Digital Health 348

Digital Health Health Data HIPAA Mental health 348

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

Digital Health 403

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Life Science 403

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As cars grow more connected via Bluetooth like our TVs, autos morph into a third space for health, which I’ve considered here in Health Populi and in some of my futures work with clients.

Digital Health 353

Digital Health Pharmaceuticals Mobile Health Health Technology 353

Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the spring of 2018, the Center for Connected Health Policy published its update of the State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. telehealth reimbursement of all types, the … Read more. One of the most comprehensive reports available on the issues involved with U.S.

Health Policy 40

Health Policy Connected Health Telehealth 40

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Among consumers willing to share health information, the most trusted touch point is “my physician,” with whom 86% of people said they’d share in 2017 but dropping to 73% in 2019.

Digital Health 191

Digital Health Health Information Health Data EHR 191

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.”

HIPAA 136

HIPAA Interoperability Digital Health Patient Experience 136

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The growing supply of teletherapy serving more people at scale who need and want to access services has been encouraging to see, with investments in digital mental health hitting $3.1 billion and $793mm for substance use disorder for the first three quarters of 2021 based on Rock Health’s numbers. That is indeed the case.

Mental health 310

Mental health Telemedicine Digital Health Public Health 310

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION.

Telemedicine 48

Telemedicine Telehealth Public Health Nursing 48

Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2019

” The OECD broadly defined the phrase in their 2017 paper on the topic as follows: Mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics are among the most important technologies in the digital economy today. The digital divide in the U.S.

eHealth 156

eHealth Patient Experience Telehealth Digital Health 156

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.

Meaningful Use 140

Meaningful Use Public Health Connected Health Patient Experience 140

Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The Airband Initiative is working from Northwest Georgia to South Africa to bolster partnerships to connect agriculture, education, health, and other sectors in areas under-served by broadband. In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019.

Telemedicine 247

Telemedicine Connected Health Digital Health Telehealth 247

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Adds trained and licensed education personnel to those persons who may staff telehealth services at a school site. LEGISLATION.

Telemedicine 49

Telemedicine Telehealth Nursing Health Policy 49

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. The phrase “concerned embrace” was coined in a 2017 Deloitte consumer study on mobile technology trends.

Digital Health 193

Digital Health Mental health Public Health Health Information 193

Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

On the first pillar of access, some tactics are better utilized than others to expand accessible touchpoints: urgent care centers and freestanding imaging sites are more widely available to consumers compared with video and e-visits (telehealth) services. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services.

Nursing 195

Nursing Patient Experience Telehealth Connected Health 195

Health Populi

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There were over 400 major healthcare breaches reported between 2017 and 2018, accessing sensitive medical data, targeting patient medical equipment, and seeking to extort financial gain. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (who knew?) and this Center demonstrates DHHS’s commitment to keeping U.S.

Medical Technology 214

Medical Technology Life Science Healthcare IT Health IT 214

Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For more on the connected car as a third-space for health care, see my post from CES 2017, Your car as a mobile health platform.

HIPAA 174

HIPAA Mobile Health Digital Health Health Information 174

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 30, 2019

Enthusiasm for home health technologies continues to mount, fueled by the aging population, demands for personalized healthcare and convenience, population health efforts and the shift to value-based care. billion in 2017, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Retailers are eyeing the market, too.

Pharmaceuticals 67

Pharmaceuticals Health Technology Health Data Primary Care 67

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There’s the 2017 AARP report that surveys caregivers about what they want from technology -- they are interested in but not currently using. Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Voice First/AI technology , Family caregivers.

Nursing 81

Nursing mHealth Connected Health Health IT 81