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

MARCH 28, 2019

This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis. In the company’s privacy policy Google reports data sharing partnerships with Nielsen, comScore, Kanta and RN SSI Group.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

For 50 years, the group has been seeing families like Kelli Rutledge’s. The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. Autumn Road in Little Rock, Ark., Rutledge said.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This time around for the 2021 research into health equity, Genentech polled 2,200 U.S. patients online including 1,000 from the general population and 2,000 who identified as medically disenfranchised as well as belonging to one of four groups: Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and low socioeconomic status.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

By enabling patients to receive care in rural areas or non-traditional settings, or to access technology that is customized for their specific language and health literacy levels, RPM can reduce or eliminate many social determinants of health barriers and improve access to care for individuals.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, MD, MBA, president and CEO at SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. Fetter led one of nation’s largest for-profit health systems. Dr. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Carlo Petrini, a journalist, organized a group of people to greet passersby near the Spanish Steps where the fast-food restaurant was planning to open, passing out bowls of penne pasta. The Slow Food movement grew out of this understanding, beginning in Italy in 1986 in response to a McDonald’s franchise opening in Rome.

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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. They include a report that says the US could see a deficit of 200,000 to 450,000 registered nurses by 2025.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

These will be prioritized to immunize three target groups: healthcare workforce consisting of service providers, management & support workers in hospitals and social care, adults above 65, and about 45% of adults with comorbidities. Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Over 60 million Latinos live in the United States today – the nation’s largest minority group. We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care experience. By 2050, they’ll make up more than 30% of the population with 132.8 million people.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. SDoH can help predict who has a high risk of hospitalization and who will need interventions to prevent admissions to a long-term care facility such as a skilled nursing facility.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 1, 2020

In the past, only doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certain others could do so. The agency will also pay for certain partial hospitalization services – that is, individual psychotherapy, patient education, and group psychotherapy – that are delivered in temporary expansion locations, including patient homes.

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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. Staff over the age of 60 “should continue to work per their regular schedules,” a UW Medicine policy statement said.

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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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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. I had been skeptical of telemedicine going in. Despite her physical remoteness, she connected with him, and he opened up.

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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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Henry Kotula

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This year, 39 percent of large, corporate employers surveyed by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) offer high-deductible plans, also called “consumer-directed” coverage, as workers’ only choice. That was a surprise, that we saw that big of a retraction,” said Brian Marcotte, the group’s CEO.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps.

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ACA Times

MARCH 10, 2017

He notes that “it is frequently observed that widespread medical insurance increases the demand for medical care,” and that “the physicians themselves are not under any control and it may be convenient for them to prescribe more expensive medication, private nurses, more frequent treatments, and other marginal variations of care.”.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. In comparison and health care context, UnitedHealth Group employs roughly 325,000 workers, CVS Health 290,000, and Walgreens Boots Alliance, about 287,000. health care system?” side of the health policy pond, noting public dissatisfaction among U.S.

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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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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]. Multiple providers report users mentioning their loss of access to care and human support (The Mighty, MeeTwo, Wysa, consultant NHS nurse).

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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. Simultaneously, data breaches continue to be reported on a daily basis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. most visibly for prescription drugs , and increasingly for other line items in the medical bill like nursing home care, hospital care, and physician services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

Using geospatial modeling and lots of data analysis via Cerner’s trove of information, the health system was able to identify a cluster around an African-American church. This inspired a partnership between the health care organization, the church, and nurses who were also part of that community.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 19, 2017

He notes that “it is frequently observed that widespread medical insurance increases the demand for medical care,” and that “the physicians themselves are not under any control and it may be convenient for them to prescribe more expensive medication, private nurses, more frequent treatments, and other marginal variations of care.”.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

.” Majorities of people agree with this statement — even the lowest percentage of 60% of people who would favor replacing the ACA with state-run health plans. For this group, it’s more local control and influence that’s valued versus a national assurance of health care.

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