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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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. The President signed the $8.3

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Public Health 182

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Health Policy Mental health Telehealth 182

Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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Digital Health Connected Health Public Health Mental health 204

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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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Telemedicine 101

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.

Digital Health 169

Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 169

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

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.

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Telehealth Medicare Mental health Telemedicine 75

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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Mental health Public Health Digital Health Medicare 182

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

Public Health 314

Public Health Mental health Medicare Primary Care 314

Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Christ Hospital Health Network, with over 3,500 employees, is ranked No. Hospital leadership recently refreshed the Employee Assistance Program, which looks to improve work-life balance for employees by addressing behavioral and mental health needs. Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). Cleveland Clinic.

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