Advanced Medical Reviews

APRIL 17, 2019

Sworn in on May 11, 2017, Gottlieb was known for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and e-cigarette industries, lower drug prices and address the growing opioid crisis. CMS Publishes New National Health Expenditures Data. In addition, higher fee-for-service payment updates are expected to result in faster Medicare spending growth.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The American Psychiatric Association has historically petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax certain requirements around e-prescribing due to various challenges around its use. The president declared the opioid addiction epidemic a “National Public Health Emergency” in 2017.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 22, 2018

As far back as 2011, Congressman Pete Olson (R-TX) and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have championed legislation to create an office within the federal public health apparatus to focus exclusively on fostering diabetes research and improving access to quality care.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 19, 2020

William Kassler, MD, MPH, Deputy Health Officer and Lead Population Health Officer at IBM Watson Health. Dr. Kassler has held a variety of roles at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

With a PhD background in AI and machine learning, he has helped grow its electronic health record into an integrated platform. This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health. Isaiah Nathaniel. Philadelphia.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

1/11/18: Introduced and referred to Public Health and Human Services Committee. 1/22/18: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare. Carry Over from 2017. in s/c Health Subcommittee. Mississippi. Mississippi. 1/25/18: To Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor. 4/5/17: Taken off notice of cal.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Marrero , director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Border Health Disparities in Tucson, says, “Diabetes may be the most serious public health crisis of our time.” hit $327 billion in 2017, with reduced productivity costing another $90 billion. Dr. David G. Recently 19 U.S.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It also examines the lack of digital readiness in hospitals, research facilities, public health agencies and payers. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers can pay the same service differently. Finally, it proposes ways to cross reimbursement and regulatory hurdles that are currently slowing telemedicine adoption.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Marrero , director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Border Health Disparities in Tucson, says, “Diabetes may be the most serious public health crisis of our time.” hit $327 billion in 2017, with reduced productivity costing another $90 billion. Dr. David G. Recently 19 U.S.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Medicare and other payers are rapidly moving toward a healthcare system that rewards high quality care while spending more wisely. CMS releases its Measures Under Consideration List for 2018 pre-rulemaking. keya.joy-bush@…. Kate Goodrich, M.D., Initiatives. Leadership. End-Stage Renal Disease. Physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The virtual trial, to be sure, is not a new concept: One team of researchers counted more than 1,100 trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov employing connected digital products for remote data collection in both 2017 and 2018, the organization observed. " “Some private insurers stepped in to help, too,” they added.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Atul Gawande, MD taps former Comcast digital health GM Jack Stoddard to be COO of the still unnamed joint healthcare venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan. Verity Health (CA) files for Chapter 11 in an effort to survive the health IT missteps of Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD who acquired the health system in July 2017.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 5, 2020

county using 2017 Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data. They also used aggregated data from the CDC and local public health agencies to plot the rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases in each county as of May 12. Researchers determined the density of infectious disease physicians in every U.S. Four study findings: 1.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Adventist Health System (Altamonte Springs, Fla.). As the employer of more than 80,000 people, Adventist Health System aims to promote personal, professional and spiritual growth with its workplace culture. In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 17, 2020

One of those facilities is Miami Medical Center, which was shuttered in October 2017 but now transformed to care for 150 such patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that it would send point-of-care COVID tests to “every single” nursing home in the U.S. starting next week.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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). Without them, the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

health consumers believe that Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies to fetch lower prices for prescription drugs, and that more drugs should switch to generic when possible. In 2017, 69% of commercially insured patients did not fill a new Rx if there was a $250 out-of-pocket cost. The vast majority of U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2018

A new poll jointly conducted by Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health bolsters my read on the latter issue – prescription drug pricing, which has become a mass popular culture union. There’s growing evidence that a majority of U.S. This is how it’s done in other nations.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 2006, Medicare Part D launched, which may have boosted consumers’ faith in Federal healthcare programs. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system. Most say, “no,” a proportion falling from the high of 47% “yes” in 2017 to 40% this year. Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. Paul Ryan said, on the floor of the U.S.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 31, 2019

Seven support Medicare for All. The others – Biden, Bennett and Inslee have come out in favor of a public option. Unlike many of his Democratic rivals, Biden does not support full Medicare for All. As in Medicare, costs would be reduced through negotiating for lower prices from hospitals and other providers.

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