Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! The post Let’s Connect! Find Out How!

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

This is a timely topic, especially now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, removing access to a number of flexibilities designed to improve access to healthcare. Members of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) used these flexibilities to better reach patients, improve the quality of care, and reduce costs for caregivers.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Related to these concerns, fewer consumers trust online services to protect their data, and feel less confident that the benefits of the convenience of digital connection outweigh privacy concerns.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. The post Patients Embrace Telemedicine According to CMS Report; first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others.

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Connected Health Initiative

MAY 22, 2023

This request from CHI resulted in the inclusion of additional subject matter experts to share experiences and data regarding the impacts of RPM and RTM considering the potential for future coverage determinations. At MACs’ request, CHI also provided the latest clinical evidence to inform their path forward on RPM and RTM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

The cost of patient data spillage : We won’t know the estimate for this line-item for some time, but we must keep it in our accounting as a key line-item on patients’ minds and, potentially, in pocketbooks.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 11, 2023

Through cloud-based connectivity, Pria’s platform can be used to identify eligible patients, align their care plan with a Pria Wellness Plan, and integrate patient data with their electronic health records. About Pria Pria is the Operating System for Health at Home.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

The post A Solution to Help Realize Remote Patient Monitoring’s Potential first appeared on Connected Health Initiative. Clearly, more must be done to support the remote monitoring use case in order to realize its potential and value.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Capturing and sharing interoperable and transparent data. To gain insights into the framework and promise of VBHC, EIU interviewed 152 respondents for the primary research, including 50 primary care physicians and 50 specialists, 20 health plan executives, and 30 health care administrators. .” of the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. For too long, Congress cited unnecessary utilization as a reason not to make these waivers permanent.

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 12, 2020

But the laws that guide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) make it very difficult for providers to utilize telehealth technologies. Digital medicine services can benefit the people at the greatest risk of contracting this disease—people over 65 years of age, many of whom are Medicare patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Over the past six months, as hospitals and health systems have pursued telemedicine and remote patient monitoring programs in earnest – whether launching new one or expanding existing ones – they've all had some learning curves and growing pains to manage. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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CMS.gov

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

Wrist-worn health. Medical grade wearables for data collection, and. For the future, think health-aware wearables that blend seamlessly into our lives, providing real-time coaching and support, and voice-based access. Those devices are multiplying in type and complexity; they include: Hearables and earbuds. Smartwatches.

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Digital Health Medicare Telemedicine Health Technology 332

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Meanwhile, the average age of a first time grandparent in the US is 50 and by age 65, according to AARP data, 96% are grandparents. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise.

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mHealth Connected Health Medicare Nursing 100

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. “This kind of patient self-reported data makes the leap to over-utilization way too simplistic,” Drobac told Modern Healthcare. ” she added.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Meet our Premier Partners. Want to Partner with Us? Find Out How!

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. In the 117th Congress, H.R.

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Connected Health Medicare Telehealth 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations. " House offers its spin on telehealth modernization.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Best Buy Health has been developing partnerships in healthcare, in B2B2C mode, channeling into peoples’ homes for healthy living and aging well “in place.” Joining us on the panel will be Kaiser-Permanente as a prospective partner in such a retail health-to-services-to-home vision, underpinned by data and predictive analytics.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. Not so much.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. One in two U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. CPT Code 99091. Check with your payers.

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