Connected Health, Medicare and Patient Experience

Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Those born before 1985 are generally considered as digital immigrants, so people aging into Medicare today are certainly in that cohort.

Medicare

Medicare Digital Health Patient Experience Connected Health

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others.

Primary Care

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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

I’ll leave you with thoughts on patients’ access to medicines, already a stress-inducing issue for families whether dealing with sick kids or older folks managing Medicare Part D and cash in retirement.

Medicare

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Connected Health

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025.

Primary Care

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The exuberance among Black older people to use telehealth in the future is undeniable, and a useful statistic to keep in mind when planning for the future of Medicare coupled with breaking down access barriers to care and promoting greater health equity.

Telehealth

Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medicare

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

Telehealth

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health

Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another study I cite in the book from Market Strategies found that of people already purchasing products on Amazon, over one-half would trust Amazon for health care related products or services, and 39% would be willing to use the Amazon platform for prescription drugs instead of a retail pharmacy or online PBM channel.

Medical Billing

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

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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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

Health Data

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Happy Amazon Prime Days, When You Can Get 25% Off a Year’s One Medical Membership

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.”

Life Science

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Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

And, 63% of providers said patients frequently postpone care due to cost. The CDC asserts that high costs of prescription drugs can limit health consumers’ access to medications and lead to people not taking meds as prescribed — presenting risks for further illness and adverse events.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Telehealth Digital Health Medicare

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

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.

Digital Health

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Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

Telehealth

Telehealth Telemedicine FHIR Medicare

Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

But evidence is growing for telehealth and a more remote health monitoring tools, some undergoing scrutiny by the FDA. We have reached a tipping point now that Medicare begins to pay for some virtual care services. The post Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

Digital Health

Digital Health Medicare Telehealth healthcare technology

Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

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.

Telehealth

Telehealth Mental health Medicare Telemedicine

The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

I discussed Costco’s approach to the pharmacy last month in Health Populi, asking the question, “What if Costco designed the prescription drug sales model?” government would have saved $2.6 billion in 2018.

Digital Health

Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine

Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

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).

Digital Health

Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Enhancing the patient experience with technology. This month, our coverage will continue a special focus on the patient experience. We'll talk to the thought leaders and first-movers reimagining the how and where of patient-friendly tech, and report on ways to activate, if not delight, the people they treat.

Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

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.

Public Health

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience

Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. Think about a patient’s journey today. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode.

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Nursing HIE Patient Experience Connected Health

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

Telehealth

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Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s & Northwell Health leverage virtual assistants for a better patient care experience

Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

During the World Congress Patient Experience & Engagement Summit in Boston, I led a panel with these innovative health systems, discussing how they are using virtual health assistants (e.g. AI Chatbots, Voice) to increase efficiency in care delivery and enhance the patient experience.

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Talking “HealthConsuming” on the MM&M Podcast

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Take George and Audrey. Each of them is dealing with different medical conditions: George has been diagnosed with heart failure and Dorothy is managing COPD.

Digital Health

Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Telehealth

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

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.

Health Technology

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

Digital Health

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience

CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

Medicare

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The announcement this week of Morgan Stanley’s capital influx into Medsphere, an EHR company, is a hint of what more is to come in 2019 as an example of investors’ expanded interest in health IT and new-and-improved healthcare services and business models.

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Connected Health Pulse

Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Trending Sources

The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Patients Growing Health Consumer Muscles Expect Digital Services

Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

Happy Amazon Prime Days, When You Can Get 25% Off a Year’s One Medical Membership

Patients-As-Health Care Payers Define What a Digital Front Door Looks Like

Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health/Care Everywhere – Re-Imagining Healthcare at ATA 2019

Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

The Retail Health Battle Royale, Day 5 – Consumer Demands For a Health/Care Ecosystem (and What We Can Learn from Costco’s $1.50 Hot Dog)

Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Boston Children’s, Brigham and Women’s & Northwell Health leverage virtual assistants for a better patient care experience

Talking “HealthConsuming” on the MM&M Podcast

The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

CVS + Aetna: Inflection Point in US Healthcare, Merger Approved Update

Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

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