Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health 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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

pre-care cost estimates that are accurate (personalized based on their own health insurance plans), payment plans for paying medical bills over time, digital payment options (think: Venmo meets medical bills), a multi-purpose portal, and mobile access for both administrative tasks and care — that is, virtual care/telehealth.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Life expectancy in the U.S. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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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). Quitting smoking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting. And these changes are here to stay.”.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

However, the Chronic Care Model offers approaches that could help us address this critical public health crisis. The Chronic Care Model is a framework that identifies the essential elements of a health system that promotes high-quality chronic illness care. What Are the 6 Key Elements of the Chronic Care Model?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In this post, I’m considering the home as health platform, room-by-room and in the context of continuity of health care and wellness.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

First, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be extended for three months in January, bringing today’s best predictions for the end of the PHE to April 2023. Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. 2617 , includes the omnibus’ Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). The Indiana Public Health Association recognized Eskenazi Health for its workplace culture in the Public Health is Good Business category, which complements the American Heart Association’s platinum-level fit-friendly worksite honor also bestowed on the health system.

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