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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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Will Trade Data for (Cheaper) Health Care – USC’s View of the Future

Health Populi

In today’s data-for-cheaper-care world, it’s Our Data, Our (Lower-Cost) Health Care. . There was a survey done by PC Magazine in 2018 written up in an article titled, Would you trade your personal data for free online services?

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

” And here is another mainstream media take on Melissa’s “secret battle with depression” in People magazine, 22nd March 2021. As Melissa explained in the magazine, those rhyming verses that, “plagued her first 50 years are now one with the ‘mantras keeping me safe and sane.'”

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Telehealth’s Missing Link: Training and Support

GlobalMed

Training and support – or the lack thereof – can make or break a virtual health program. In a recent interview with Managed Care magazine , Mei Wa Kwong, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy, listed training as a major implementation obstacle. Your success should matter to your vendor.

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Your Home as Clinical Lab: Withings Brings “Your Urine, Your Self” to #CES2023

Health Populi

Millions of global health citizens have taken to telehealth who never used a health care “digital front door” before. Other patients adopted remote health monitoring to avoid perennial visits to doctors for managing chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

Furthermore, in the specific context of the annual 2021 convening of HIMSS, bringing together the world’s stakeholders in health care and digital technology, the implications are many, complicated, and some uncertain.

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2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years.