Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. There are also impactful benefits for patients and providers. For patients. The integrated care model also saves providers time and money.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs). health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

” We see green shoots of the “social de-construction” of the obstacles in the health care landscape now: Medicare Advantage supports social services for older people enrolled in these plans; Kaiser-Permanente is making a “bold move” to channel social determinants of health in collaboration with Unite US; and, Dr.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. For the second year in a row, H-E-B received J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

According to Karl Ulfers, co-founder and vice president of growth at DUOS , governments offer excellent listings of resources with which care managers and clinicians can address housing, food, transportation, and other SDoH. Like many other vendors, Equality Health is used by primary care providers and others to make value-based care work.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). So at #CES2019, I’ve identified examples of technologies on the show floor to address heart health in each of these can-do, patient-empowering behavior changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Laura Ferrara, Chief Strategy Officer at Intus Care The focus on healthcare delivered in the comfort of one’s home has surged in recent times, particularly in light of the pandemic. Telehealth advancements, both in technology and government policy, have created greater access to care for people who might otherwise struggle to get it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

This could be data like lab results from a patient’s rheumatologist not being sent to their primary care doctor. Let’s consider a real-world example outside of healthcare. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 7, 2019

This connection to the patient experience is incredibly important. To set an example, Novant Health covers 100 percent of the cost of testing supplies for its team members with T1D and T2D. Not only do I have the perspective of an administrator, but I also have the viewpoint of someone dealing with a chronic disease.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Emergency departments and urgent cares are over capacity nationwide, and patients often wait weeks to see their primary care physician. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is also a global community, with products emerging from, for example, Korea with its innovations in skin care. As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration. As health consumers, U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a result, patients have less pain and swelling, faster recovery of motion, and quicker returns to activity or sport. For example, athletes’ recovery times from ACL/UCL reconstructions basically halved in time from what they used to be. Trend #3: WALANT is on the rise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"In our ambulatory virtual programs, we manage complex chronically ill patients," said Annie Bannister, RN, executive director of vEngagement at Mercy. "For the first time, these patients with complex, chronic illnesses had real-time access to providers ─ something unheard of in their world. of the time. of the time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. As a result, this program directly addresses access issues that these patients experience.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips learned that throughout our COVID Year of 2020, health care providers often preferred to keep patients at home, some as part of Medicare payment innovations and others moving hospital care to the home as part of evolving clinical protocols and the growing Internet of Things for health – many of which were unveiled at CES 2021.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

At last year’s 2020 CES, I wrote here in Health Populi that evidence and innovation was beginning to bridge health consumers keen to take on self-care for their hearts, and their physicians. Water weight retention connects to heart health, for example, and can also be an indicator for other acute conditions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Health consumers demand better care experiences.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With recent reimbursement changes, CMS is helping to set the tone of where care is delivered. Hospitals are beginning to rationalize services, including who and where care is delivered. Specifically, more geared toward patient choice, shopping for services, and price competition for out-of-pocket expenses. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). An obvious example of how such limited thinking comprises your ability to see the opportunity is demonstrated by how Dr Sim has presented the concept that mHealth is somehow limited by adoption of smartphones.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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