Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The cohort study, which researchers called "the first large-scale study to characterize inequitable access to telemedical care," relied on data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. healthcare system and digital connectivity landscape fraught with inequity.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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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.

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Mend

JANUARY 4, 2021

Federal officials have clarified new telehealth reimbursement rules for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs), giving those sites more opportunities to use connected health services during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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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. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. As health consumers, U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Getting paid for telehealth services has long been an irritant, especially for overworked clinicians who are already struggling with burnout and don’t have time to deliver poorly compensated care. The CONNECT Act is aimed at removing what AMA President Patrice A. Tech Visionaries Reinvent Telehealth.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. There are new ICD-10 Z codes for social determinants that will enable billing and reimbursement for social care tied to diagnoses.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stressors were a kind of toxic side effect of the pandemic, observed by the spring of 2020 just weeks into the public health crisis. A new article in Nature details the mental health concerns exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included economic problems faced by many families.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Expect health care costs and access to be at least as important to U.S. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020. A key health care cost focus of Congress will target prescription drug costs.

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