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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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2024 Brings New Medicare Billing Opportunities for FQHCs and RHCs with RPM and RTM Services

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Beginning January 1, 2024, a significant change in Medicare billing practices greatly impacted Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). For the first time, these centers can bill Medicare separately for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services.

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One-on-One with Andrew Parker, Founderand CEO, Papa Health

Digital Health Today

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. The Power of Digital Health Technology Reimbursement Q4: What can payers do differently?

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. billion in 2018.