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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

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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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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OIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" The goal is to "help the health technology community and providers as they continue to refine their development of telehealth and enhance virtual care," he said. They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare. " DME fraud has been around since Medicare started reimbursing for it, of course.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

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. Today, Aging in Place Technology Watch and GreatCall have published a new white paper about initiatives to fight social isolation. Read more. .

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One-on-One with Wallace Torres, Co-Founder, WellTheory

Digital Health Today

These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity, and social determinants of health. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. Medicare only reimburses for diabetes and stage three renal care. The big caveat is that we can’t go near Medicare.

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Five Ways a Good Digital Health Registry Addresses Healthcare System Needs

The Digital Health Corner

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.