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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Meanwhile, Medicare Advantage plans telemarket home nurse visits which provide an opportunity to assess risk scores , enabling them to boost insurer reimbursements from Medicare based on that assessment, independent of whether the insured has already been assessed at the doctor’s office. With persuasion? That’s 5 percent! Just saying.

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April 2019 Telemedicine News

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mHealth App for Juvenile Arthritis Patients Shows Promise for Youth Patient-Doctor Relationships. A new Swedish-developed mHealth app called Genia is showing promise at the University of Minnesota for fostering communication between juvenile arthritis patients and their care providers.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. Telehealth in 2019.

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CMS Proposes Major Expansion of Reimbursement for Telehealth Services

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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). Senators: Medicare Reimbursement Restrictions Are ‘Outdated’.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

Health Populi

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section).