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 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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. In this webinar, he shares from his long experience delivering virtual care to remote patients, and discusses ways to optimize IT systems and connected health tools to enable quality and ensure safety.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020. Life expectancy in the U.S. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC).

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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).

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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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care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

Reimbursement for telehealth services by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has long been a point of contention. Medicare “remains one of the most restrictive payors” for telehealth , with reimbursement rules that Marki Stewart at the Dickinson Wright Health Law Blog calls “exceptionally limiting.”

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

On March 15 at 1 PM CT , Mei Wa Kwong, JD, Executive Director, and Christine Calouro, Policy Associate, from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) will present a free National Telehealth Resource Center webinar to provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy actions and to discuss issues that may arise throughout the year.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 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). Tennessee HB 518 3/21/18: Taken off notice for cal in s/c Health Subcommittee. general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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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.

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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). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019. .

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 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). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 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). The comptroller shall report findings, along with any recommendations, to the members of the general assembly no later than January 15, 2019.

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GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

Telehealth bills are pending in Congress; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced policy changes and new coverage as well. Resources like the Center for Connected Health Policy can help. Think of your virtual health program like a startup, then pursue funding from grants and. Get funded.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients. 6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine was first posted on July 8, 2019 at 4:26 pm.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. These three scenarios, and Philips’ usual work-flow, involves a lot of design research, which I’ve discussed previously here on Health Populi. Take George and Audrey.

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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. learn about how to prepare for a procedure, determine when to call the doctor following surgery), get tasks done (e.g. Build program awareness with patients.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Along with lots of apps sponsored by gym chains and exercise personalities, the market for connected fitness equipment grew like topsy in 2020 in the #StayHome pandemic era. Peloton was valued at $8 billion in January 2020, reaching $35 billion by October 2020, being valued more as a tech company than a fitness or health care firm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2020

The groups are also asking for an accompanying provision that would give Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar the authority to waive the restrictions on telehealth visits during a public health emergency currently imposed by Medicare. THE LARGER TREND. " Congress should consider Sec.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors. Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors to Bluetooth-enabled scales to Fitbits. Trump administration expands Medicare telehealth benefits for COVID-19 fight. What do CIOs want to see from telehealth apps?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In early December, FarmBoxRx was the first online grocer to be approved to channel food to SNAP/EBT recipients as payment from Medicare and Medicaid. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online. I reported out this trend in my 2019 book, Health Citizenship , which looked at U.S.

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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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