Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. The WHO, identifies many factors that influence health and health equity including: Socio-economic position. Public health policies. Access to the health system. Occupation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. By identifying these success metrics within the strategy phase, we were able to establish documented alignment with our clinical, technical, operational and financial stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These new rules are expected to specify what Medicare will cover regarding telehealth services, how those services must be billed going forward, and what documentation is required to be reimbursed. It is also recommended to review individual payer websites for any changes in telehealth policies for 2021.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Manatt document is a wonderful example of a company’s clear articulation of values and corporate social responsibility in an era of declining trust between citizens and institutions, found in the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

.” The fact is that Americans are at risk of financial toxicity and stress when it comes to health care costs, even when they may not be forced to file for personal bankruptcy. The authors soberly conclude, “Although death is inevitable, good public policy can ensure that financial suffering from illness is not.”.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

. “The accelerated rate at which rural hospitals are closing continues to unsettle the rural healthcare community and demands a more nuanced investigation into rural hospital performance,” threatening the stability of the rural health safety net, according to the Chartis Center for Rural Health’s latest research.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Assist in the design and development of innovative analyses to support prioritized business needs such as statewide evaluation of health information exchange value, p claims and clinical data integration, social determinants of health, medication data, and partnerships with academic institutions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Today, the European Union has grown to 28 countries, and priorities have evolved to bring these nations closer together as a health community. Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The vertical bar chart documents average real wages and the growth of poverty as published in the McKinsey report. McKinsey illustrates in this bar chart the phenomenon, globally, that wage growth has stalled and poverty rates increased in the US and other wealthy countries.

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ACA Times

MAY 1, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the period of non-enforcement for certain non-compliant health policies under the Affordable Care Act through the end of 2020. 2 minute read: The U.S. Grandmothered Plans.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Most offer the same reasons: Medicaid reimbursement rates are typically lower than other insurers and the documentation requirements can be burdensome. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. Almost a third of physicians don’t accept Medicaid patients.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mental Health Policy Gap Excavated by Data Brokers The COVID-related surge in mental health disorders and the limitations on accessing in-person therapy Ignited a rapid shift towards telehealth and mHealth apps, where downloads increased by 200% between 2019 and 2020.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization.

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The Digital Health Corner

JANUARY 30, 2017

Relative to Ad specifically, I would reference the incredibly informative and moving award-winning film Alive Inside , documenting the response of patients with severe Ad to music relevant to their personal past. Public health policy might very well change as a result of such outcome studies.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

This finding is a wake-up call, thanks to FAIR Health, illustrating the power of telehealth for mental health. I addressed this as an emerging opportunity in 2012 in The Online Couch , a report I wrote for the California Healthcare Foundation documenting the need and growing supply side for telemental health services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

But what’s been published online since hospitals began to post prices hasn’t been very helpful, as this story in Vox documents. And see here on JD Supra for more details on the rules. The author was searching for a procedure and came across this table posting service description and average charges for each.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2018

Let us confront and address health disparities where they exist, and overcome discrimination of people regardless of their health status. In meditating on these words that too many of us take for granted, I hearken back to Franklin’s statement that “you [that is, ‘We’] have a Republic… if you can keep it.”

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

The aim of this study is to document initial observations from multiple digital services providers during the COVID-19 crisis, especially those related to mental health and wellbeing. To set a good example of responsible innovation, this document only accepted data from providers with clear and accessible privacy policies.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

She documented all of our symptoms,” Ms. Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I Rutledge said. They were swabbed from their car. While the practice was never a big moneymaker, its revenues have plummeted.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

CMS had proposed to collapse five E&M codes into two, and to streamline physician documentation requirements. The delay is a win for the thousands of physicians who submitted comments opposing the changes, complaining that the proposal would penalize doctors who see more complex patients.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” Today’s message: The 2014 CPR National Scorecard for Payment reform documents that the Payment Penguin Problem has been solved! We also question whether they can pull it off. We’d like to see that providers are serious in making the transition.” The implications are huge! more…).

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 28, 2023

Racism in medical care has been well-documented throughout history. Today, patients in minority populations receive unequal and inequitable medical treatment when compared to white patients. That’s true even when adjusting for differences in geography, insurance status and socioeconomics.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Eventually, that information must be reconciled in the new system with all of the disparate sources, including legacy system(s), scanned documents, continuum of care documents (CCDs), and various databases (archives, HIEs, pharmacy databases, state registries, etc.). It’s just a question of when this happens and who does the work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

The procurement and finance departments' workflows were particularly limited by the inadequacy of scanned document processing. " Health IT is an art similar to having to reconfigure an airplane in flight, Dawson described. One of the minimally configured applications is its current ERP system, Infor.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

That same day, health officials announced King County’s — and the nation’s — first death from the coronavirus. Now as cases of virus-stricken patients suffering from COVID-19 multiply, government and hospital officials are facing the real-life consequences of shortcomings they’ve documented on paper for years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Licensing is a complex, tangled web of varying requirements, timelines and red tape, regardless of the state.

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Health Populi

APRIL 20, 2022

A new documentary and educational campaign on health equity will be launched on May 1st, 2022, from Oprah’s Harpo Productions studio partnering with The Smithsonian Channel.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. Not only that, they directed the streams of data to researchers who were standing by, catching every drop, like phlebotomists filling vial after vial.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Other states have passed wide ranging laws requiring telehealth reimbursement in their Medicaid program in recent years, but Medicaid programs have yet to respond with official regulation or documentation in their provider manuals indicating they are actually reimbursing services via telehealth.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 9, 2018

The database, called “ Pre$cription for Power ,” shows that donations to patient advocacy groups tallied for 2015 — the most recent full year in which documents required by the Internal Revenue Service were available — dwarfed the total amount the companies spent on federal lobbying. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) has also published its annual State. Documents related to telehealth regulations released in the latter half of 2022 include those listed below, which are available for download on this FSMB page. New Jersey (through December 31, 2023). Vermont (through January 1, 2026).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s been an underlying aspect of my career ever since I got into health policy over two decades ago. Health Hats: What have you disrupted recently? Setting care plans with patients is not typically documented such that it could be reused for some other reason. The disrupter.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Additional context here is that President Trump cut funding for navigators in federally facilitated marketplaces by over 80%, documented here in a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act was signed into law to help consumers make better choices and encourage food companies to produce healthier food, the International Food Information Center has documented in its history of the Nutrition Facts label.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

For historic trends, you can check out my coverage of the 2014 version of this study here in Health Populi. The 2019 ACSI report bundles finance/banks, insurance (property/casualty, life and health) and hospitals together in one document.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2018

Quoting from the ProPublica story: “Hundreds of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with former administration officials tell a [different] story — of a previously unknown triumvirate that hovered over public servants without any transparency, accountability or oversight.

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