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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

"It's the overnight success story that was 30 years in the making," said Atrium Health Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Rasu Shrestha. Stacy Lindau, MD, founder of NowPow, discuss how connected care is boosting health equity efforts , and how patients and community organizations can be engaged to capitalize on its promise.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Federal gun legislation is passed and investments in cybersecurity are maxed in this scenario, with policies and procedures in the workplace taken seriously by all health citizens. Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy. Consider the Wild Cards.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S.

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How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. TSIM consists of six phases: pipeline, strategy, development, implementation, operations and continuous quality improvement.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

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MARCH 9, 2023

For more information about these waivers in the downloadable that was created and made publically available by the National Policy Center – Center for Connected Health Policy: M edicare Telehealth/Connected Health Waivers Post-PHE The Administration, States, and private insurance plans will continue to provide guidance in the coming months.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. We then came full circle to my initial question: why the re-branding strategy, moving from “ConsejoSano” to “SameSky Health?”. So the new name communicates “that we all deserve a health care system that works for all of us,” Abner asserts.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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How To Become a Telehealth Provider

GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Develop a strategy. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail.

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Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By Tyler Williams, Directory of Strategy, AR Optimization, ZOLL Data Systems. As a best practice, to understand state-specific policies, providers can check the Center for Connected Health Policy State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. [ii].

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5 Challenges Hindering Telehealth Growth

BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To improve measurement of a “modernized” understand of health, with better data and more holistically across the many dimensions that make health. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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How To Become a Telemedicine Provider

GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Develop a strategy. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Old strategies haven’t worked; it’s time for new approaches that put modern technology to its most valuable use.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

By putting this report out at this time, the AMA hopes to help identify opportunities for health care stakeholders to support digitally-enabled care as they, in the words of the report, “develop their coverage and payment policies and strategies in the years ahead.”

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

.” I interpret this to mean that, in gaining perspective from “elevated ground,” we can both manage risk (the defensive play in Von Clausewitz’s strategic thinking) as well as operating with “separate masses” on multiple fronts (in the offensive strategy).

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. Asia and Europe.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I’ve pointed to the Dignity Health campaign #HelloHumanKindness as a best practice communications and branding strategy for helping heal healthcare. Is there a different, higher moral role for a faith-based healthcare provider versus a not-for-profit (non-faith based) or for-profit provider?

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As part of this objective and mission, WEF supported The Atlanta Heart Failure Pilot project, an example of how stakeholders in a region can come together, map out a collaborative strategy, adopt informatics standards, improve healthcare and drive economic benefits – and better health outcomes.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

She is the author of the recently-published book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. . She works with exceptional leaders seeking to build value in a transforming health care world. Lisa Suennen is Managing Director at Manatt, Phelps & Philips.

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How Coronavirus Is Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior, From the Amusement Park to the Voting Booth

Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In challenging moments like this COVID-19 pandemic threat, we look for gifts of learning and opportunity — and this is one where the case for telehealth and broadband connectivity comes to the fore. TIME magazine covered this yesterday in a mainstream media story.

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Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2023

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for men worldwide, so Hims seeks this heart-health mission as core to its growth and mission. ED symptoms can precede cardiovascular disease by two to three years in advance, and with that in mind, this strategy for Heart Health by Hims was born.

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In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internally, health industry business leaders are prioritizing several workforce strategies in the new year, first and foremost to confront digital transformation. Clearly, digital transformation is top-of-mind for healthcare organizations pondering their workforce strategies for 2020.

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The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To that point, Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg has proposed a National Health Equity Strategy featuring “Health Equity Zones ,” part of his Douglass Plan to address health disparities. If 2020 isn’t the end all-be all year of SDoH, one thing is certain — that November 2020 will feature a Presidential election.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

WHO believes that while AI has enormous potential for strengthening health care delivery and benefit low- and middle-income countries (and health citizens, I would add), ethical considerations and human rights “must be placed at the centre of the design, development, and deployment of AI technologies for health,” WHO insists.

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Health Citizens Link Their Views on Democracy, the Economy and the Pandemic

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. Countries with the fewest proportion of residents looking for major health reforms are Australia, Taiwan, Belgium, Singapore, where at most 1 in 3 people are keen on big health policy changes. public health sector.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you

Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

How To Become a Telehealth Provider

Billing Medicare and Private Payers for Telehealth Visits: What to Expect Post-Public Health Emergency

5 Challenges Hindering Telehealth Growth

Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

How To Become a Telemedicine Provider

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Re-Imagining Healthcare – a Lesson from Von Clausewitz in the Fog of War

Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress

Lose the COVID-19 public health emergency, but keep the progress, says HIMSS GR director

A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

How Coronavirus Is Re-Shaping Consumer Behavior, From the Amusement Park to the Voting Booth

Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

In 2020, PwC Expects Consumers to Grow DIY Healthcare Muscles As Medical Prices Increase

The 2020 Social Determinants of Health: Connectivity, Art, Air and Love

A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Citizens Link Their Views on Democracy, the Economy and the Pandemic

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