Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

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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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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JUNE 6, 2021

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power 2021 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study. Together, the two reports from J.D.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 4, 2024

” The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health solutions, with the CDC reporting that 36% of adults used telehealth services in 2021. The partnership also underscores Cardio Diagnostics’ commitment to health equity and access. According to McKinsey , up to $250 billion of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Award Winning AI-Powered Risk Stratification – Free For All Medicare ACOs The first new product launching is ClosedLoop’s ACO-Predict , the industry’s first free solution for AI-powered population health risk stratification. With ACO-Predict we are bringing AI-powered prediction to every Medicare patient in the country.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

MedHaul : A digital health solution and Certified B-Corp that enables safe, reliable, and inclusive transportation, with a deliberate emphasis on the most vulnerable and underserved populations. Oscar launched the grant initiative in 2021, as a key pillar of the CCC Program, to impact change at the community level.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launched in 2019, Vensana manages $550M in capital and is actively investing in development and commercial stage companies across the Medtech sector, including medical devices, diagnostics and data science, life science tools, digital health, and tech-enabled services. 1 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 5, 2023

Rock Health’s Q1 2023 digital health funding report is out and its title couldn’t have put it any better: we’re investing like it’s 2019 again. Here are the numbers in a nutshell: US digital health funding totaled $3.4B Here are the numbers in a nutshell: US digital health funding totaled $3.4B

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. Walmart Health then debuted in 2019, and it’s a more comprehensive offering than it seems to get credit for.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 25, 2024

Oversubscribed Seed round led by Meridian Street Capital and B Capital NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Isaac Health, a digital health company emerging as a national leader for brain health, announced today the successful completion of its oversubscribed $5.7 million Seed round. BMJ Open 2017;7:e011146.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. These services are enumerated in Section 2713 in the ACA , prompting Dr. .”

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Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If there was still any debate about the flavor of the month in the digital health VC club, primary care enablement company Vytalize Health just settled it with its $100M Series C round. The post Vytalize Closes $100M for Primary Care Transformation appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2022

Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Center for Program Integrity also announced that it has taken administrative actions against more than 50 healthcare providers alleged to be involved in similar schemes. billion in alleged fraud. ON THE RECORD. healthcare system at the expense of patients."

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Reimbursement: Some reimbursement changes from the pandemic have been made permanent, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ expansion of reimbursable telehealth codes for the 2021 physician fee schedule. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends. Gilbert, G.,

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Digital Health Wire

MAY 7, 2023

The news sent shares of Option Care’s stock sliding over 20% as investors grappled with Amedisys’ reliance on Medicare reimbursement that hasn’t been friendly to home health. Amedisys ranks among the nation’s top independent providers of home health services, offering everything from nursing to hospice. Time will tell.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

In early 2021, DHA and health system Denver Health established a partnership to help bridge the digital divide in healthcare. "When applicable, we also have incorporated health screenings, such as blood pressure checks, during workshops," Lu noted.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

worsened by 40 percent from 2020 to 2021. While all ages and races saw an increase in maternal mortality in 2021, many inequities still exist due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to access to quality care, socioeconomic status, race and education level. 1 The maternal mortality rate is now the highest in the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum. Congress and the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. In the 117th Congress, H.R.

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Redox

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Top stories New state privacy laws obscure compliance Digital health companies should prepare to navigate the growing patchwork of state data privacy laws, especially those in Washington and Nevada. Read more Remote patient monitoring RPM use expands by more than 300% Providers’ RPM use increased from 20% in 2021 to 81% in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

The Philips Future Health Index 2021 report found that nearly two in three healthcare leaders are prioritizing investments in telehealth – but that priorities will shift to artificial intelligence in three years. by collaborating with other private hospitals and health technology companies. About one-third of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 31, 2023

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Kandu Health , Inc., a digital health company that is changing the course of stroke recovery and post-acute care, today announced preliminary outcomes from the first 40 stroke survivors served by its program. 2021 Dec 7; 10(23): e023394. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2018 Oct;27(10):2632-2640.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. UPMC in Central Pennsylvania is a large health system serving a wide geography covering more than 10 counties.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support. Additionally, rural patients often receive coverage from Medicare and Medicaid, limiting the providers they can access from an affordability standpoint.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 16, 2023

NASDAQ: GOCO), a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company, today announced unaudited financial results and select operating metrics for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022. GoHealth has enrolled millions of people in Medicare plans and individual and family plans.

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Connected Health Initiative

JANUARY 27, 2021

(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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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Waltz Health to offer customizable versions of its Marketplace Search technology to health plans supporting Medicare beneficiaries with the company signing its first Medicare health plan client.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021. Both are life-saving measures for delivering mental and behavioral health services and treating people with substance use disorders.

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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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