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CHI POV: Medicare Coverage and Digital Health

Connected Health Initiative

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job. 4040, 117th, as introduced).

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Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”

Health Populi

To give you a sense of their topline for digital health, Deloitte titled that section of its report, “Virtual health and fitness find their rhythm.” Consumers also had a preference for virtual or hybrid options for mental health and therapy sessions, as well as for following up chronic conditions already diagnosed.

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Connected Health Initiative Announces Formation of Value-Based Care Task Force

Connected Health Initiative

(WASHINGTON, DC) January 27, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) announced the formation of a new Value-Based Care Task Force within CHI to identify key legislative and regulatory changes needed to advance value-based care by incorporating digital health tools in the American healthcare system.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

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dropped nearly three years between 2019 and 2021, from close to 79 years down to 76. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Here are links to those two reports: Mortality in the United States, 2021 , and. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

Among the key findings, Software Advice learned that, 9 in 10 patients (again, health-engaged wearable tech-adopters) were interested in sharing data from their devices with their physicians. This proportion of folks interested in sharing their wearable health data grew from 56% in 2021 to 91% in 2023.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

By the spring of 2021, telehealth use stabilized, but health systems had built the processes and policies to deliver on the promise of omni-channel health care — from the patient’s home and hands (via smartphones) into community sites closer-to-home, and returning to brick-and-mortar medical buildings.