Connected Health Initiative

AUGUST 3, 2020

Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director, Morgan Reed: “The executive order is a critical step in expanding telehealth coverage for some of the most vulnerable Americans during the pandemic and ensure these digital health services are made sustainable and permanent.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Connected Health Initiative

JANUARY 27, 2021

(WASHINGTON, DC) January 27, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) announced the formation of a new Value-Based Care Task Force within CHI to identify key legislative and regulatory changes needed to advance value-based care by incorporating digital health tools in the American healthcare system.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) November 7, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the win of President-Elect Joseph Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris: “I congratulate President-Elect Biden and Vice-President Elect Harris on their victory in the 2020 Presidential Election.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They are critical in times of a public health emergency like COVID-19, revolutionizing delivery of care to Medicare beneficiaries and other underserved populations “On behalf of the CHI Steering Committee and membership, I want to thank the House co-sponsors, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-1), and Rep.

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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!

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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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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 12, 2020

Reaching patients at home via voice or digital communications is therefore an important part of responding to coronavirus. But the laws that guide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) make it very difficult for providers to utilize telehealth technologies. Thank you for considering our request.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. At this moment in U.S.

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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.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum. Congress and the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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Xealth

MARCH 7, 2024

Being one of the first major healthcare conferences in Los Angeles in a while, we spent the better part of last week at ViVE, February 25-28, an event where “digital health executives go to do business.” From investors to health systems, the wallets are starting to gently, ease open, but with a highly cautious approach.

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 26, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) March 25, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the congressional passage of the latest Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The most economically and medically vulnerable are particularly harmed.

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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 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

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). Life-Years?

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 11, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pria, an innovative healthcare technology company that is transforming the way chronic care management is delivered at home, today announced that Pria will be using InterSystems Health Connect Cloud to deliver the integration required to accelerate Pria’s efforts to revolutionize the operating system for health at home.

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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

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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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

.” Google Cloud released new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences, highlighting Hackensack Meridian Health and Highmark Health in its announcement. Microsoft also released a preview tool that will layer Azure generative AI on top of chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

In health care, one of the “gifts” inspired by the coronavirus pandemic was the industry’s fast-pivot and adoption of digital health tools — especially telehealth and more generally the so-called “digital front doors” enabling patients to access medical services and personal work-flows for their care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Nearly all of the patients surveyed were worried about their growing health care cost responsibilities looking five years into the future. Two-thirds of patients 18-24 years of age were frustrated with doctors’ and hospitals’ lack of digital tools for pricing and payment, compared with 29% of patients 65 years of age and older.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

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). Limiting alcohol consumption. Reducing stress.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

EIU defines value-based health care (VBHC) as, “the creation of a health system that explicitly prioritizes health outcomes that matter to patients, relative to the costs of achieving those outcomes.” The Medicare Trust Fund is financed by payroll taxes, general tax revenue, and the premiums enrollees pay. of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said. Since the start of the pandemic, willingness to share digital data has increased 30%, while the importance of price transparency tools has increased 10%.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis. Postal Service—to detect these schemes and stop them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. Health IT implementation best practices. Collection. by March 21, 2019. What you need to know.

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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. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. That’s the upside and it’s promising and exciting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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