South Central Telehealth Resource Center
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation webpage located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION. Passed Legislation. State. Bill #. Status. Summary. Arkansas.
American Well
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Here are three easy ways to make your new Amwell practice stand out: 1. Make a good great first impression. A great picture is worth a thousand words (unfortunately so is a bad picture…). So, make sure you put your best face forward. If you don’t already have a professional headshot, here’s how you can take your own. ‘Camera’: The nicer the camera (lens, etc.), the better the headshot.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
I’m way late in blogging this – too much travel and jet lag – but WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled ““Participatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” ( web page ), it produced a storm of attention on Twitter (our #SPM2017 hashtag had 15 million impressions in 48 hours, 1.1 million per hour during the event!
ACA Times
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
There is much political debate about whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has improved healthcare for Americans. The Wharton University scholarly podcast Knowledge@Wharton recently featured Wharton health care management professor Atul Gupta discussing this topic. Gupta , who penned a paper titled “Estimating Effects of Public Insurance Expansion for Adults: Evidence from California Hospitals” with Mark Duggan and Emilie Jackson of Stanford University , used California ERs and hospitals from 20
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Healthcare Exchange Standards
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
I think the most useful value-add that an HIE can add is an API that is based on FHIR. This is true of an XDS based HIE, Regional Exchange (XCA), Vendor based EHR, nationwide Exchange, and Direct HISP. It is something I expected to be more included in the WISHIN Future is bright conference. At an HIE level: Initially I would focus on enabling Apps to query for and read the data available in the HIE.
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Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
This is the way bovine insulin dies – not with a bang but a whimper. In July, Wockhardt, a UK pharmaceutical company, announced that it was stopping production of its Hypurin bovine-based insulin; there doesn’t appear to be another producer of the insulin formulation in the world. The company stated that it was shutting down production because it could no longer find a raw supply of materials needed for manufacturing the insulin; they warned that those who still used the product would need
ACA Times
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Originally published on November 21, 2017 in “ Accounting Today ” . The IRS has been sending signals since the summer that it will be enforcing the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. Those signals have culminated in the IRS starting the process of sending letters to businesses with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees—referred to as Applicable Large Employers, or ALEs—on what they owe for failing to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility
Healthcare Exchange Standards
NOVEMBER 25, 2017
The next item on the HIE Future is Bright list is movement from "Multiple Point-to-Point Connections" to "Single Connection to Hub". This change is purely administrative, but is still significant. Again, I will state that I was not at the WISHIN meeting , so I don't know what they said about this. I will guess, but will keep my guesses here limited.
Henry Kotula
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
[link]. Expect insurers to accelerate programs and policies that cut costs and to push for value-based contracting as consumers demand more transparency in healthcare pricing. The past year has been an eventful one for payers, from the tumultuous Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange markets to potential mega-mergers. Insurers continue, however, to keep their efforts focused on lowering healthcare costs where possible, with the intention that quality of care is not sacrificed.
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KB Dental Consulting
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Introduction. Mobile health is opening new opportunities for communication between patients and healthcare medical providers. This chance gives positive feedback by improving the outcomes and enhancing the patient experience. Mobile medical health is starting to modify the way how health care is delivered and also received. By making an improvement in providing easy access, mobile health has a big potential to complete the promises of reforming health: higher patient satisfaction, lower costs, a
CMS.gov
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
CMS releases its Measures Under Consideration List for 2018 pre-rulemaking. keya.joy-bush@…. Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Kate Goodrich, M.D., M.H.S. Director, Center for Clinical Standards & Quality and CMS Chief Medical Officer. Topic. Initiatives. Leadership. End-Stage Renal Disease. Hospitals. Nursing facilities. Physicians. Quality. Medicare and other payers are rapidly moving toward a healthcare system that rewards high quality care while spending more wisely.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
NOVEMBER 25, 2017
At the WISHIN conference this discussion would have interested me most. I might then have become distracted. By the title, and given my background, I would have thought that this was a mechanism to inform the Patient of when their data was used. A really important Privacy Principle. However I think that it is more a growth of a very interesting use-case that drove the very early HIE within Wisconsin, well before the push in the last decade.
Society for Participatory Medicine
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Why the Movement Needs a Breakthrough, and How You Can Help. Guest post by SPM member Tyson Ortiz (right), a highly committed member of SPM who works in organizational culture change. His previous post, How I became an e-patient: through practice, with coaching (using Lean on the patient side) , gives more of his family’s background and his motivation to grow this movement.
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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.
American Well
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
For good reason, everyone dreads the experience of a hospital readmission for the same problem shortly after being discharged. Here, healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, insurance agents, and patients are all on the same page. So, any strategy that both reduces readmissions while improving patient health outcomes is something that all of these groups should investigate.
ACA Times
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
They say that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, a theory that may be true for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was just months ago when President Donald Trump pronounced the ACA as dead. The demise of the ACA or “Obamacare” has been his goal, even when replacement plans and quick-fix sabotage efforts continually failed. As his tone towards undermining the ACA has moved from serious to ominous, Americans have reacted by signing up for healthcare insurance through Healthcare.gov at a
Healthcare Exchange Standards
NOVEMBER 26, 2017
The last item on the WISHIN future list is moving to "Shared Responsibility for Managing Care" from "Providers & Payers working Separately". This seems to be an indication that is mentioned elsewhere, where Payers are being added to the WISHIN network. It is mentioned Payer access with WISHIN will become a reality Q1-2018 I wrote a short note about this in the Single Connection Hub article.
American Well
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
For good reason, everyone dreads the experience of a hospital readmission for the same problem shortly after being discharged. Here, healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, insurance agents, and patients are all on the same page. So, any strategy that both reduces readmissions while improving patient health outcomes is something that all of these groups should investigate.
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