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Intuity Medical’s POGO Automatic, the First and Only FDA-Cleared Automatic Blood Glucose Monitor, Now Covered by Medicare Part B

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Intuity Medical, Inc., Intuity Medical, Inc., Illegal copying is prohibited.

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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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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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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. Obtaining Medication Technology from TailorMed helps providers and pharmacies connect patients with financial assistance for their medications.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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Permanent Telehealth Reimbursement Update: Bipartisan Legislation for Telehealth Extension

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Medicare healthcare workers would also continue claiming reimbursement for remote patient monitoring and tracking through this telehealth extension. As discussed in previous TBHI Telehealth.org articles, such full and permanent reimbursement is expected for telebehavioral health Medicare beneficiaries, starting January 1, 2023.