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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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. Polite, Jr. in a statement. billion, according to the department. billion in alleged fraud. ON THE RECORD.

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Continue Education Journal

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Key considerations for embracing telemedicine post-pandemic: Improved access: Rural communities often have limited access to specialists, making it difficult for these individuals to get the care they need. There is still uncertainty of the fate of other services as the public health emergency ends.

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Health Populi

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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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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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 News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Why has telemedicine become a priority for the organization?

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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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.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Specific statutes can shape telemedicine growth as well, such as encouraging specialty consults but not remote patient monitoring – depending on which service is best compensated. The deadline for 2021 consideration is Feb. So what can we expect for 2020 ? 10, 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ankit Gupta, CEO at Bicycle Health. The past two years have taught us that telemedicine is a highly scalable and successful way to deliver quality healthcare across the United States. Both are life-saving measures for delivering mental and behavioral health services and treating people with substance use disorders.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? health citizens.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. Early on in the pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended telehealth waivers that helped bring virtual care services into the mainstream. For everyone in digital health, as we apply new technologies, we will have transformed healthcare through analytics.

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Health Populi

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

GSR Ventures, a $3 billion assets under management venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies, is an unusual venture firm: The partners all are former practicing physicians and former successful healthcare technology entrepreneurs themselves.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. And these changes are here to stay.”.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

They are primarily being developed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) which has driven payment policy (including APMs) in the two big government healthcare programs: Medicaid and Medicare. Mid-year Update: Increased attention to health equity in healthcare has continued.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Between 2017 to 2021, there was also significant movement in a few other areas: identity and self-esteem (up 11 points from 2017), as well as control and reality (up 7 points between 2017 to 2021). We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

For the past decade, we’ve seen two macros, yet largely parallel, healthcare trends: 1) understanding impacts of social drivers of health and. 2) adoption of digital health and telemedicine, especially due to COVID-19. CVS will look to continue its expansion into healthcare outside of its store doors.

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