Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann and I encountered each other at European health conferences, “the two American healthcare girls” in the European space. The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But other experts who spoke at this week's HLTH VRTL 2020 conference reminded attendees, clinicians and innovators must be willing to think outside the box to fulfill telehealth's promise. "The pandemic has driven innovation in the shape and design of the traditional healthcare visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Then they can encourage those members to come in for required screenings that are part of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs.”. You can go to almost any session at a health conference and hear people talking about health equity. In fairness, we weren’t using those terms back then. That’s now completely changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

"A device like CarePort can help enable quality care to be brought into the home, with the goal of not only helping improve the quality of life for patients who require frequent care, but also giving hospitals an avenue to improve clinical and financial results." Ensuring things are easy for patients and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

“The athenaTelehealth solution met the challenge we were facing by allowing us to initiate video conference calls with our patients to continue treatment and care,” Miller stated. “This feature really mimics the patient experience of being in the office. To read this special report, click here.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Communicating via video conference technology is not the same as in-person encounters, and older patients have identified this deficiency in the virtual visit in the U-M study.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed. Medical practices are now offering choices to patients – in person or telehealth ? Bills are in Congress will make it permanent.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I find all of these, and more, at the Health-Beauty-Wellness Conference convened by GMDC in Orlando this week through the weekend. As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Look, too, to the upcoming annual 2021 ATA Conference and Expo that will bring current and futures thinking to attendees every week in June. That’s public sector covered, but in your scenarios-future planning modeling, don’t leave out the commercial payors which cover another roughly half of U.S. health citizens.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. Think about a patient’s journey today. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patients’ experiences. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team. Source : [link]

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Connected mirrors, the purview of beauty-tech in past CES conferences, will also play a larger role in connected fitness in 2021. Up to 14 days’ worth of ECG data can be collected via this skin-worn wearable tech, connecting to a patient’s phone to allow real-time view of the information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What I have been most excited about is the acceleration in the concrete steps that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services states and accreditation organizations are taking to inspire action in the space of health equity.

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