Connected Health Initiative

JANUARY 27, 2021

(WASHINGTON, DC) January 27, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) announced the formation of a new Value-Based Care Task Force within CHI to identify key legislative and regulatory changes needed to advance value-based care by incorporating digital health tools in the American healthcare system.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They are critical in times of a public health emergency like COVID-19, revolutionizing delivery of care to Medicare beneficiaries and other underserved populations “On behalf of the CHI Steering Committee and membership, I want to thank the House co-sponsors, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL), Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-1), and Rep.

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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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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference! The post Let’s Connect! Find Out How!

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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.

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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. The most economically and medically vulnerable are particularly harmed.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.

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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

HHS must continue to improve access to both patients and caregivers to these tools, and Congress must prioritize mobile broadband deployment across the nation to ensure that all patients, especially those in underserved rural or urban areas, have access to telehealth services right now.”. ###.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum. Congress and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

“It appears that telehealth is likely to continue to remain an important tool in the health care delivery tool kit — at least for those with computers and high-speed internet access,” the AARP report concludes with a caveat about connectivity/broadband access.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Nearly all of the patients surveyed were worried about their growing health care cost responsibilities looking five years into the future. Two-thirds of patients 18-24 years of age were frustrated with doctors’ and hospitals’ lack of digital tools for pricing and payment, compared with 29% of patients 65 years of age and older.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

(WASHINGTON, DC) December 6, 2021 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released a statement from executive director Morgan Reed regarding new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) summarizing telemedicine usage by Medicare beneficiaries over the last year: “The CMS data is notable for two reasons — one, more beneficiaries (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery. Virtual care poses distinct privacy and security risk factors that must be managed, with new tools and data streams to safeguard and new responsibilities on both the patient and provider side.

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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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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 11, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pria, an innovative healthcare technology company that is transforming the way chronic care management is delivered at home, today announced that Pria will be using InterSystems Health Connect Cloud to deliver the integration required to accelerate Pria’s efforts to revolutionize the operating system for health at home.

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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 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

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

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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Xealth

MARCH 7, 2024

While fee for service still dominates, there were many more conversations about population health and reaching underserved groups. These collaborations are appearing stronger, especially among Medicare Advantage and direct to employer risk-sharing relationships.

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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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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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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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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. Postal Service—to detect these schemes and stop them.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

New legislation at state and federal levels is making it possible for telehealth services to be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance carriers. In addition to self-pay patients, reimbursement can be sought through Medicaid, Medicare and commercial/private payers. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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