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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

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. billion in 2018.

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CHI urges Congress to focus on opportunities to modernize the American healthcare system through the responsible uptake of innovative technology tools to achieve value-based care goals

Connected Health Initiative

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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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. For example, Devoted Health was the first MA plan to subsidize an Apple Watch.

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The Value-Based Care Revolution Will Stall Without Health Tech

Connected Health Initiative

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. Congress should modernize privacy and security frameworks to support the use of digital health tools in value-based care scenarios widely.

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The Value-Based Care Revolution Will Stall Without Health Tech

Connected Health Initiative

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.

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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some studies have suggested, for example, that Black and Latino patients in New York City were less likely to use telehealth during the pandemic, while others have said Black people were more likely to use virtual care. healthcare system and digital connectivity landscape fraught with inequity. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.