Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Like other digital tools, telemedicine offers not just opportunities to address the digital divide, but also the potential to widen it. who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, said this past October that "obviously we need the expansion of broadband" to make that access happen. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.,

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 26, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) March 25, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the congressional passage of the latest Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This makes it far more difficult for them to take advantage of telehealth opportunities.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) November 7, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding the win of President-Elect Joseph Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris: “I congratulate President-Elect Biden and Vice-President Elect Harris on their victory in the 2020 Presidential Election.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telehealth is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Here are 8 steps to becoming a telehealth provider.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. 31, 2022), available at [link].

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Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 12, 2020

But the laws that guide the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) make it very difficult for providers to utilize telehealth technologies. Digital medicine services can benefit the people at the greatest risk of contracting this disease—people over 65 years of age, many of whom are Medicare patients. 2741 / H.R.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Millions of Americans turned to live audio and video visits with healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Congress needs to make decisions that will permanently affect how Americans, in particular Medicare patients, may access these telehealth services on a permanent basis.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. Congressional Action Still Needed to Ensure Continued Access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | July 13, 2023 News Telehealth proves successful for opioid use disorder treatment Virtual care provider Ophelia found 56% of its OUD patients remained in treatment for six months.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use all the digital tools available to them. In the 117th Congress, H.R.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. For too long, Congress cited unnecessary utilization as a reason not to make these waivers permanent.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? James Madara’s comment that so many of these tools and apps can be “digital snake oil.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

For mental health — particularly, low-to-mid-level anxiety and depression — there are cognitive behavioral therapy apps and tools that have been shown to be useful for many patients backed by clinical evidence. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Structural challenges, especially painful due to EHR barriers — with the promise of APIs (application programming interfaces) and the ongoing development of clinical decision support tools.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 12, 2021

It’s a common clinical practice for many clinicians, and can be a valuable tool to utilize when managing your patients’ chronic diseases. Identify RPM medicare CPT codes. Additional Resources: Telehealth Roundup: Remote Patient Monitoring. Telehealth Roundup: RPM Billing Panel Discussion. Discuss RPM conceptual models.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources.

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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. This is the Triple Aim for Consumer Health — improve “my” health, enchant and engage “my” experience, and lower “my” costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

.” Google Cloud released new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences, highlighting Hackensack Meridian Health and Highmark Health in its announcement. Microsoft also released a preview tool that will layer Azure generative AI on top of chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

EIU defines value-based health care (VBHC) as, “the creation of a health system that explicitly prioritizes health outcomes that matter to patients, relative to the costs of achieving those outcomes.” The Medicare Trust Fund is financed by payroll taxes, general tax revenue, and the premiums enrollees pay. of the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys.

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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. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. Health IT implementation best practices. Collection. by March 21, 2019. What you need to know.

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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. Growing telehealth throughout the rural regions of the U.S.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Other providers worry that adding technology to a patient visit will be too complicated or time-consuming – but modern solutions are so easy to navigate that both clinicians and patients can immediately connect with each other to focus on the treatment.

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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). Limiting alcohol consumption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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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. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode. Northwell is leveraging their Health Chats for population health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This includes regular contact with a primary care provider and access to self-management resources like patient education, support groups, and technology tools. These components are essential for improving the health outcomes of people under chronic illness care. We will talk about the CPT codes in the next sections.

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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. That’s the upside and it’s promising and exciting.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has added specific CPT codes to the list of teleaudiology and virtual speech pathology services eligible for reimbursement. Telehealth for speech and auditory disorders doesn’t just mean more widespread access to services; it means earlier screenings, diagnosis and treatment.

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