Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 75

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

health citizens’ health engagement given growing financial exposure to health care costs (e.g., Financial literacy, especially key to U.S. high deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket copayments).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The health consumer conundrum on trust and “my” health/care data in our current world is that so much health-related data isn’t covered by HIPAA or in the medical claim or EHR. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment. Clearly, patients’ experiences as consumers of healthcare lack the service levels they expect as payors based on this MITRE-Harris Poll.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This change is occurring as the result of clinical innovations, patient preferences, financial incentives, electronic health records, telemedicine, and an increased focus on improving quality of care and clinical outcomes. Consolidation will continue industry wide. More healthcare entities will continue to merge together.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41