South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Q: Per Medicare regulations, do the providers at a distant site have to be hospital-based or can they be in a private setting – for example, a group of pulmonologists who want to create a telehealth system on their own? The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. The post Telehealth Policy Barriers to Observe appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In order to achieve health equity, we must build a solid foundation of patient trust and communication. In dentistry, for example, chairside AI software has been instrumental in strengthening trust. For example, the U.S. This often results in higher costs and poorer outcomes in the long run.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. For example, access to COVID-19 vaccinations and certain COVID-19 treatments generally have not been affected.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

On a per-person basis, the state lags most others in nurses and hospital rooms designed to isolate patients with infectious, airborne diseases, according to a nationwide index of health-security measures. The nurse did not want to be named for fear of reprisal by Swedish. The nurse is now on medical leave.

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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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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

So, for example, if a patient was rushed to the emergency room after a stroke, there was unlikely to be a neurologist in the room. Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. I had been skeptical of telemedicine going in.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

JANUARY 4, 2018

This question and others were discussed at a forum I participated in, entitled “Leveraging Telehealth to Expand Access to High-Quality Care” and hosted by Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy (IHP) at the Center for Total Health in Washington, D.C., on December 14. A primary concern is cost. Unless the entire U.S.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s Telehome Monitoring Program also has patients sending in their data with a home monitor, and a cardiac nurse reviews the data daily and follows up as needed. Patients then get automated self-care instructions based on their data and their healthcare providers get alerted if necessary.

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ACA Times

MARCH 10, 2017

For example, if a bank is deemed “too big to fail” and knows that the government will bail it out, perverse incentives arise which encourage excessive risk-taking, constituting a moral hazard. In 2013, Arrow joined other economists in signing a letter to Congress, written by a small group of health policy experts.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, if a bank is deemed “too big to fail” and knows that the government will bail it out, perverse incentives arise which encourage excessive risk-taking, constituting a moral hazard. In 2013, Arrow joined other economists in signing a letter to Congress, written by a small group of health policy experts.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

In the current pandemic, frontline health care workers face the possibility of anxiety and burnout [6,7], alongside fears of becoming ill, especially among ethnic minority groups [8]. For example, in the UK the number of suspected domestic homicide victims more than doubled during the first three weeks of the lockdown [9].

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More seniors will be cared for in homes and/or in PACE programs versus skilled nursing facilities. So those of us who work in education will need to train medical, nursing, and other students for a healthcare future that looks quite different from the healthcare present and takes place in settings we couldn’t imagine 10 years ago.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

Key Challenges for Telehealth, RPM, and Other Digital Health Technology Before the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health solutions like telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) showed enormous promise but had a modest impact on the practice of healthcare in the United States. billion in 2018.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A growing volume of outpatient care will be provided in ambulatory surgery centers, primary care clinics, retail clinics, urgent care centers, nurse managed health centers, imaging facilities, emergency departments, retail clinics, and patients’ homes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. House Committee of the Judiciary leads Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-)) and Rep.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This profoundly moving case study graphically illustrates but one human example of the role of the environment on human health, which is the basis for WHO’s report and call-to-action. There are many climate-sensitive health risks, shown in the first diagram from WHO’s report.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Insurance companies have created policies, designed plans and narrowed provider networks to bring down healthcare costs. Expect payers to accelerate those programs and policies and search for more cost-saving levers in 2018. They’ve shown success.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

Dr. Lu De Souza, CMO of Cerner, discussed the “troves and troves of health care data that can help democratize” care and outcomes. She discussed several examples in Cerner’s client based where they have been able to liberate data to close the digital equity gap.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Based on the volume and intensity of medical professional societies’ editorials on the 2020 Presidential Election, we may be in an inflection-curve moment for greater clinician engagement in politics as doctors and nurses take claim of their health citizenship. In the wake of the pandemic, some doctors and nurses in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care. Dr. Saini and his colleague Shannon Brownlee released the annual Lown Institute 2020 Shkreli Awards this week, highlighting their ten most egregious examples of the worst events in U.S. health care that happened in the past year — 2020, the year the coronavirus changed our lives and livelihoods. health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs.

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