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

Health Populi

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Power and BDO illustrate some mis-alignment between the demand and supply side of telehealth.

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OIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Andrew Vanlandingham, senior counselor for Medicaid Policy and acting health IT lead at OIG, called attention to recent revisions to safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules around coordinated care. He also highlighted a major new priority at OIG: telehealth.

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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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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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Is Telehealth the Key to Changing the Opioid Crisis?

GlobalMed

Just as telehealth can reach underserved patients treating other conditions, it can give addicts new options in multiple ways: When patients overdose or experience withdrawal symptoms, local providers can immediately connect with experienced specialists – something especially useful in prisons, university campuses, rural areas and other locales.

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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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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.