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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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. Telehealth happens across the U.S. Then Medicare goes bust.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consider an upcoming HIMSS event in Orlando with the charming title: Monitoring Grandma: Adoption of Connected Health Tech by Seniors. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. This is laudable. That’s 5 percent!

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Advanced Medical Reviews

JANUARY 9, 2019

In the healthcare industry, telehealth was once thought of as futuristic. Approximately 89 percent of healthcare leaders expect telehealth to transform U.S. This is especially true for millennials, 60 percent of whom say they support the use of telehealth to replace in-office physician visits. Government in Action.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We’ve looked into the Amazon/One Medical combination, Apple’s paper on its future health vision, and the activities of the 16 largest Tech Giants in healthcare. Here’s another lens on the Optum health consumer data. These three topics all occurred in the past couple of weeks. government would have saved $2.6

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+). category tags: digital health , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Family caregivers. Learn more at CareTribe.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 17, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of attending two events in Washington, DC: West Health’s Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit and URAC’s Telemed Leadership Forum. include: Inequality and health disparities; “Revenue-thinking” as an all-consuming single-aim; and. Digital Health Today would not be possible without our valuable partners.

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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. A corollary to adverse events and efficacy is patient safety. I will discuss below some of the most useful applications of such exemplary registries.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 5, 2024

The Relationship to TeleHealth 5.3.7 Morgan Health Invests in LetsGetChecked 6.11 Cue Health Targets DTC Market in 2022 6.17 Lucira Health Files for $115M IPO 6.26 Scanwell Health moves beyond home UTI testing 6.39 LetsGetChecked collects $30M more for at-home health testing 6.41 Binx Health 7.13

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

But as inevitable as those changes are, other notable events occurred during September – including AARP’s partnership with Getty Images to combat age bias in advertising. Consider upcoming fall events. Soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service.

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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). Eating a healthy diet. Reducing stress.

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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. 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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Notably, Weight Watchers/W began to offer a new telehealth program for weight loss featuring the use of GLP-1 medications – which has been endorsed by W spokeswoman Oprah Winfrey, long-associated with weight loss endeavors. As AI gets embedded into consumers’ health care, patients will come to trust the technology and its capabilities more….with

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 17, 2023

(Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ) (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, and its majority-owned subsidiaries Lucid Diagnostics Inc. Out-of-network payments received to date have respected the Medicare rate.

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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 my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Recent Medicare data shows Blacks were hospitalized with COVID-19 at a rate nearly four times higher than Whites. The rise of digital health technology gives us a unique opportunity to help advance health equity, improve access to care, increase health care quality and lower costs,” said Rene Quashie, vice president, digital health, CTA.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Personal value-based care will continue to grow in 2024 and it will be critical for healthcare providers to create digital access to support in-person and telehealth visits in order to maximize outcomes for both healthcare organizations and patients while driving consistent operational efficiency.

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American Well

DECEMBER 6, 2015

For those new to this feature, we share the telehealth industry’s hottest news, events, legislation, insight and more. CEO, Mike Baird, guest authored Why Now Is The Moment That Telehealth Transforms Healthcare published by ReadWrite. Telemedicine may just be the biggest trend in digital health in 2015.

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