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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

As the authors of the HaH article assert, “at a societal level, HaH could help avoid billions in capital costs to build more brick-and-mortar hospitals,” I return to Roemer’s Law learned in graduate school that, in a volume-based payment system, “A built bed is a filled bed is a billed bed.”

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

Health Populi

” asks the lead article featured in the January 2023 issue of the AARP Bulletin. Technology can help support these modifiable behaviors that can help us re-shape our life-long health… some with the support of technologies we can find at #CES2023 in and beyond the digital health exhibition space.

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Healthcare Privacy and Ethics In The Age Of Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Advancements in medical technology grant modern patients access to better care than ever before, but they also come with serious privacy concerns. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer; @faulknercreek.

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Overcoming Reimbursement Hurdles for Digital Health Startups and Technologies

Digital Health Today

During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Marcus Schabacker M.D, We also have engineers based in Kuala Lumpur, so we can evaluate medical technology that is bought and sold outside the United States.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help

Healthcare IT Today

This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. A company survey showed it to be the service most desired by health plan clients. I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention.

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Rising Healthcare Costs: How Health Plans Can Help Members Navigate

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jake Sattelmair, EVP and General Manager at Wellframe , a HealthEdge company Healthcare costs are on the rise in the United States, posing significant challenges for individuals, employers, and health plans.