Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Check out the top causes of mortality in 2021: the death rates for heart disease significantly rose from 2020 to 2021, as did the rates of death due to unintentional injuries (those so-called Deaths of Despair from overdose, suicide, and accidents), and to be sure, COVID-19. decline in life expectancy? How about those Deaths of Despair?

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

Note that one-third of people enrolled in Medicare or employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) self-rationed care due to cost in the past year. The top reason people in the U.S. The Qualtrics Study explored the views of over 1,000 U.S. For more details on this important study, you can check out my post here in Health Populi from November 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

NEJM Catalyst defines value-based care (VBC) as “A healthcare delivery model in which providers are paid based on patient health outcomes – providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease, and live healthier lives in an evidence-based way.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. Patient experience platform ixlayer joined the Innovators’ Network at the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2022

WELL Health's platform facilitates conversations, including pre-procedure instructions, virtual care coordination and post-appointment follow-ups, between patients and their providers via secure SMS/texting, email or phone messaging. According to the vendor, 19 different languages are available for use. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2023

The deal builds on an existing partnership between the organizations dating back to 2020 and accelerates Vytalize’s expansion into Medicare Advantage, commercial plans, and Medicaid, as well as multi-specialty care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. "Our long-term goal is to advance and evolve digital capabilities that ensure optimum patient experience and benefit from innovations that allow for seamless care access and delivery. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But other experts who spoke at this week's HLTH VRTL 2020 conference reminded attendees, clinicians and innovators must be willing to think outside the box to fulfill telehealth's promise. "The pandemic has driven innovation in the shape and design of the traditional healthcare visit.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033. For this discussion, I’ll pick six exhibits from the Report’s roughly 140 exhibits — starting with the big picture of the unsustainable nature of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2021

In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Actually, we've had randomized control trials showing that when patients get their care at home instead of in the hospital, they get readmitted less often.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

That was posted in November of 2021, with surveying ending in 2020 (just before Covid-19) and was made available within the last month. Good news -- seventy-six percent of the 65+ population as of 2020 has access to broadband -- and tech adoption has clearly risen since 2015. But what if tech adoption came from a sample size of 2.9

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption in a way that initially wasn’t considered feasible by providers and payers pre-2020. million in 2020. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During COVID, Philips quickly pivoted both in terms of re-deploying its design and manufacturing capabilities for building ventilators and advising hospital clients in reallocating inpatient resources toward the pandemic needs in 2020. Our homes, too, underwent digital transformation as long as we had access to a broadband connection.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Where we physically lived in 2020 transformed into sites for the many daily verbs in our lives: working, learning, praying, cooking/baking/dining, exercising, and indeed, self-caring for wellness and medical care. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It enabled mental health providers to quickly shift to delivering care online when social distancing entered everyone’s vocabulary in early 2020. To accommodate this shift, payers relaxed many policies that would have otherwise made it difficult to utilize telehealth in favor of receiving care in a traditional setting.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

We have a hospital called Riverside Medicare. This was back in April of 2020. [00:09:46] You’re talking about patient experience and workflow in that last example. So I can talk about one example use case for the asset tracking piece. It’s in the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois. Those numbers are significant.

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InTouch Health

JULY 17, 2020

Not so long ago, healthcare providers set their course to a steady future, equipped with well-thought-through roadmaps, depicting a clear path toward be tter patient experiences and outcomes. . Author: Mary Edwards, president of the Healthcare Provider business for NTT DATA Services. Progress was somewhat steady — but slow.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to a September 2020 market intelligence study published by BIS Research , the global telemedicine market was estimated at $21.55 The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 17.66% during the forecast period 2020-2030. The healthcare industry is already at the tipping point.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"Five years later, in 2020, we turned to Myia Health's cloud-based RPM platform to help us accomplish four RPM strategies reaching more patients without having to add more team members," she explained. "Lastly, patient adoption of your RPM technologies must be prioritized.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Enhanced Access to Finding Care: Patient demand for digital care options has skyrocketed since 2020, yet provider directories and the way patients find care have not evolved to meet these rising preferences. Health consumers demand better care experiences. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

I started a solo practice in 1977 and cared for my rheumatology, internal medicine and geriatrics patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. From 2015 to 2020, our health system team added 0.6 One measure of healthcare system’s financial strength is operating margin , the amount of profit or loss from caring for patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2021

This began before the pandemic, but C-stores really grew retail space for health/care in 2020. At the same time that convenience and dollar stores are growing their health and wellness offerings, the number of new off-price/discount retailers since the pandemic emerged is fast-expanding.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Medicare 348

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. The Trump Administration supports increased use of Medicare Advantage and expanding consumer choices.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

I was intrigued by Republicans’ spike upward in positivity in 2019-2020, then Democrats’ in 2021-22… with the obvious observation that the occupant in the Oval Office of the White House changed in the interval. Nonetheless, there is not a lot of love for the pharma industry right now in the second half of 2023.

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