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. This makes it far more difficult for them to take advantage of telehealth opportunities.

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Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 29, 2021

It would also allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to completely waive restrictions on Medicare’s coverage decisions with respect to telehealth services and add ‘the home of an individual’ and, at HHS’ discretion, ‘any site at which the patient is located’ as originating sites.

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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. Congressional Action Still Needed to Ensure Continued Access.

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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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care innovations

JULY 25, 2018

2017 and 2018 have been eventful years for advocates of digitally delivered healthcare, as government officials have moved more quickly and decisively than ever before to expand reimbursement for telehealth services (which in turn expands the availability of these services). Reimbursement for Telehealth Services Rapidly Expanding.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has added specific CPT codes to the list of teleaudiology and virtual speech pathology services eligible for reimbursement. Telehealth for speech and auditory disorders doesn’t just mean more widespread access to services; it means earlier screenings, diagnosis and treatment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Partnerships and Sales Aidoc will power the Mayo Clinic Platform and help the health system expand the availability of clinical decision support. Samsung Health is using the b.well Connected Health Platform to help users to create a longitudinal health record and connect to providers at Walgreens and various hospital networks.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Arlington, VA, September 30, 2020 – Today, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® and the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) are launching a new effort to address longstanding health disparities in the U.S., amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. CTA owns and produces CES® – the most influential tech event in the world.

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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. In and beyond 2023, a trusted future is a healthy future.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By coordinating care for patients with multiple chronic conditions, providers can help improve patient outcomes and reduce health disparities. Fortunately, it has become easier in recent years, with Medicare now offering reimbursements for CCM services. We will talk about the CPT codes in the next sections. Nurse Practitioners (NPs).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Patient Considerations: Determine fit with the patient’s current technology. “With our 65+ Medicare population at Northwell Health, we realized that one big barrier was some patients still have a flip phone which will not work with our chatbot”, Hallie explains. Build program awareness with patients.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees have access to the health system’s community education program offering hundreds of classes, and over 60 percent of Mercyhealth partners use some kind of flexible scheduling. For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. Lenovo (Morrisville, N.C.).

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