Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age. AARP sponsored the poll.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). cartons of cigarettes costs in the U.S. Reducing stress.

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Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 169

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

consumers age 18 and over in August and September 2019. One-third of these patients had a health care bill go to collections in the past year, according to Cedar’s 2019 U.S. Do not assume that older people, and especially “younger older” Medicare members between 65 and 74 don’t increasingly feel this way.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Virtual Check-Ins and Remote Evaluation of Patient-Generated Images.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’d been trying to schedule meeting up to do a live podcast since February, and we finally got our mutual acts together on 6th August 2019. Marc Iskowitz, Executive Editor of MM&M, warmly welcomed me to the Haymarket Media soundproof studio in New York City yesterday.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 130

GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Nate Lacktman, partner at the Foley & Lardner law firm and Chair of its national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team, has a positive outlook. states and District of Columbia as of October 2019. Two months ago, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2020 Physicians Fee Schedule.

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Expanded fee-for-service reimbursement, such as the addition of CPT 99091 in 2018 and several additional codes that are currently in the proposed physician fee schedule for 2019 (specifically 990X0, 990X1 and 994X9), help bridge that gap. This has already started with CPT 99091, and will accelerate into 2019. Asia and Europe.

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Remote care Health Policy Connected Care Connected Health 40

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19. Take George and Audrey.

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Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Telehealth 356

Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Within healthcare, innovation driven organizations are exploring how to empower patients with virtual health agents to access relevant care information (e.g. All panelists expressed the need in the future to capture and place pertinent information from the digital health interaction into the patient’s electronic medical record.

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Patient Experience Digital Health Nursing Healthcare Innovation 28

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Government Accountability Office (GAO) just looked at behavioral health and COVID-19 , identifying higher-risk populations and how Federal relief funding is trying to address these health citizens. affected by behavioral health conditions: mental health and substance use disorders,” GAO highlighted.

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Mental health Public Health Digital Health Medicare 182

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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