2023, Connected Health and Health Policy

What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

Health Populi

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What if… you were given the opportunity to build a health system from scratch in this new era of platforms, cloud computing, AI and machine learning, curious-digital-empowered consumers, and collaborators in retail and community settings operating close to peoples’ homes and workplaces?

Health Data

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

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023.

Digital Health

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. Private payers, Medicaid, and Medicare initiated widespread telehealth reimbursement approvals.

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What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Indeed — health/care is everywhere at CES 2024, including on the main stage, where Boudreaux will discuss holistic health which Elevance Health, rebranded from Anthem Inc., is working to address for its 118 health plan members. And one of Elevance Health pillar’s for this is… food as medicine.

Mental health

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in January 2023. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

Telehealth

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

This digital transformation speaks to the importance of paying for health care regardless of whether services happen between patient and provider face-to-face in real-time, via video calls on-screens, or during an audio-only telehealth visit (a clinical phone call).

Telehealth

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New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 4, 2022

Combined with the recently proposed CMS 2023 reimbursement for LMFTs, LPCs, Addiction Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers & Others , the ramifications of these shifts in US legislative policy promise continued growth in telebehavioral health into the future.

Telehealth

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Entering 2023, U.S. health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops.

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Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Individual states also follow the suite of expanded reimbursement, but each state still has their own unique guidelines, as outlined on the Center for Connected Health Policy resource site. Many expanded reimbursement opportunities will be in place until the end of 2023 , so the time to elevate your healthcare program is now.

Telehealth

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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

healthcare system’s environmental threat to human health, I highly recommend your reading Lisa Suennen’s essay written for the Aspen Institute published in April 2023. The post Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Telehealth

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

With one-in-three consumers saying, in the previous multi-circle graphic, that health consumers have grown price-sensitive to healthcare and medicine costs, we can expect people turning to cost-saving tactics for their health care decisions and spending in 2022 and 2023 (when a recession in the U.S.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Here is a snippet from the UK government’s press release last week on the extent of the nation’s social isolation challenge: “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time, Theresa May said today as she launched the first cross-Government strategy to tackle it.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

Public Health

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

Public Health

Public Health Telehealth Connected Health Medicare

2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years.

Telehealth

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Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

More patients as consumers are adopting and sticking with digital health devices — in the case of heart health, blood pressure monitors and smartwatches that have incorporated sensors for heart rate and other CV metrics — along with tracking food, exercise, and mood, all important components for holistic health.

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Connected Health Pulse

What If We Built a Consumer-Enchanting Health System in the Context of HLTH 2023? Building Blocks for the Scenario

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

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

What to Expect For Health/Care at CES 2024

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Why Implementing Telehealth Is Worth the Cost

Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

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