South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

On a daily basis, health care professionals are finding new ways to use telehealth technology to achieve positive outcomes for consumers. For example, telehealth is being used in the management of chronic diseases and follow up/triage programs, which can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department visits.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The research team from the University of Pennsylvania health system sought to compare the demographic characteristics of patients who completed a telemedicine encounter (either via phone or video) with those who were scheduled for one, but did not complete it. healthcare system and digital connectivity landscape fraught with inequity.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

McKinsey’s report models outpatient and office visits that can be virtually enabled for patients covered by both commercial and public sector health plans (Medicare and Medicaid). 35% of home health services, and. health care system. 24% of all office visits and outpatient encounters, plus.

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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. For the second year in a row, H-E-B received J.D.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For example, telehealth is being used in the management of chronic diseases and follow up/triage programs, which can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department visits. New legislation at state and federal levels is making it possible for telehealth services to be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance carriers.

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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).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Chronic Care Model is based upon the idea that people with chronic illnesses should have access to continuous care and support. It shifts the focus from acute and reactive care to proactive, population-based care. What is Chronic Care Management? Supporting patients in achieving health goals.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The ATA hosts an annual telehealth conference each year and provides educational resources on its website.

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too. .

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American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Think convenient health care is only for the wealthy? Medicaid recipients often have significant barriers to care. Throughout my residency, I worked in a primary care clinic that was in one of the poorest areas of Boston. Think again. I recently heard someone say, “Patients have a workflow too. .

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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. As health consumers, U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The six photos shown above are but a few examples displayed and explained in the Philips Innovation Gallery. Take George and Audrey.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In early December, FarmBoxRx was the first online grocer to be approved to channel food to SNAP/EBT recipients as payment from Medicare and Medicaid. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online. Many tech companies are working to improve public health and individuals’ health equity.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. One on which I focus in my book is connectivity.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As consumers, we struggle with the basics – we wait 29 days to get primary care appointments, we’re faced with higher deductibles and narrower networks, drug prices are increasing at five times the rate of inflation, and health care expenses cause about 2/3rds of U.S. bankruptcies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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