Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. What is the point of sneering at older people? Because technology can be used for a purpose, inventors want to make it so.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

MAY 2, 2019

As an industry worth $35 billion with a growth of 3.2 The physical therapy industry has been focused on employer-based healthcare, artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in the role of big data and enrollment in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for billing. Physical Therapy. Occupational Therapy.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Driven by the need to reduce contact in the early days of the pandemic, telehealth is now predicted to become a quarter trillion dollar industry. An example is the recent Park Associate’s annual Connected Health Summit, a virtual conference featuring innovation in consumer behavior, IoT technologies, and operations.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

To date, there is not one central resource vetting and categorizing clinical studies and best practices to inform government and industry decisions that need to be made to support remote monitoring and other key digital health modalities.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on its sponsoring organization: JLL is a real estate services company serving over a dozen vertical markets — including health care, life sciences, senior housing, and retail, among other industry sectors. ” she added. This week, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Patients’ experiences with the health care industry fall short of their interactions with other industries — namely online retail, online banking and online travel, a new survey from Cedar, a payments company, learned. Survata conducted the study for Cedar among 1,607 online U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

Today marks 20 days in the post-Change Healthcare environment, with some health executives already hypothesizing in Becker’s how this, the largest such health industry security breach ever, could re-shape American health care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Q2 – – Some industry observers have called this, “telehealth’s big moment.” For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Health Populi’s Hot Points: So, can the U.S. The President signed the $8.3

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The bill as currently drafted also offers expanded eligible practitioners; telehealth coverage and reimbursement for FQHCs and RHCs; a delay of the in-person telemental health requirement; provisions for audio-only telehealth; and use of telehealth to satisfy Medicare face-to-face telehealth requirements for hospice care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. WHY IT MATTERS. Despite bipartisan support such legislation has failed to gather significant momentum.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To CVS, the Signify purchase isn’t a wager on home health. trillion healthcare industry. The through-line for all of us who work in the broader health care ecosystem is that care is shifting “everywhere,” from home to work to wherever we “are” or where we want that care to be delivered.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 11, 2023

With InterSystems’ cutting-edge technology and expertise, we will develop a platform that enables healthcare organizations to deliver health-at-home, value-based care for the Medicare population. The company’s innovative approach has earned it a reputation as a game-changer in the healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Note that Hy-Vee, the grocery chain, is in process of growing its own health/care continuum and portfolio of services, from food-as-medicine to specialty drugs, vision care, and fitness equipment in the store. Hy-Vee also introduced a Medicare Aisle into its grocery stores in August 2021.

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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. Most providers also reported they were more comfortable using telehealth post-COVID.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 25, 2019

When CMS unveiled the first standalone reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) by “unbundling” CPT Code 99091 in the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule , it opened the door to the widespread use of RPM services for patients and promised there was more to come. Virtual Check-Ins and Remote Evaluation of Patient-Generated Images.

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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.” While fee for service still dominates, there were many more conversations about population health and reaching underserved groups.

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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

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

Kaveh was brainstorming the future of telehealth a decade from “now,” with three innovators attending #ATA19: Deepthi Bathina of Humana, Matthew Holt of Catalyst Health (and Co-Founder of Health 2.0), and Kim Swafford of Providence St. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

For other services, such as appointments and labs, One Medical accepts health plans from most insurance carriers as well as Medicare,” the pre-reveal explained, a snippet of that site shown here. Amazon unveiled the offer on July 6 in a preview of “two days of epic deals.”

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Changes to policy regarding telehealth and remote patient management (RPM) — and, specifically, changes affecting the reimbursement for these services offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — are having an effect on the usage of digital delivery on the larger healthcare industry.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. government would have saved $2.6

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The healthcare industry experiences more data breaches than any other industry, with over 700 reported breaches in 2020 alone. This alarming statistic underscores the importance of protecting patient data in the healthcare industry. Healthcare cybersecurity differs from traditional cybersecurity in a few ways.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Top Headlines VC firm General Catalyst is creating Health Assurance Transformation Corp., which will partner with 20+ health system partners to guide their transition to value-based care and potentially acquire a health system “where we can demonstrate the blueprint of this transformation for the rest of the industry.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That compares to a 200% increase over the same time period across all industries. Firmware vulnerabilities in connected medical devices have increased 59% in the last year , research from Securin, Health-ISAC, and Finite State indicated.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 22, 2020

Nate Lacktman, partner at the Foley & Lardner law firm and Chair of its national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team, has a positive outlook. Two months ago, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final CY 2020 Physicians Fee Schedule. 42 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Those virtual care stories were based on interviews with a range of providers and industry representatives, shown in the graphic labelled “collaborators.”

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. 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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As we look back on 2019, it's worth remembering how far the industry has traveled to get here. -- Mike Miliard, Editor. Congress, government agencies, presidential candidates, consumers and the industry itself talk about the need to lower healthcare costs, but what does this entail? Health IT implementation best practices.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem. 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.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. 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 Telemedicine Trail.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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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.

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