Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

” Together, the JAMA Network Open research paper and AMA physician survey inform us with useful insights to close that health care digital divide which could make a major difference between some patients’ lives versus their demise.

Telehealth 425

Telehealth Mobile Health Public Health Connected Health 425

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

”) AI, from applications and analytics to ethics (example: Machine Learning AI-Driven Community Coalition: Digital Outreach Improves Asthma Among Low-Income Children…and no doubt ChatGPT will be mentioned more than a few times throughout the week) Health data integration and interoperability (with updates on the cloud, standards, and digital (..)

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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Interoperability Life Science EHR Health Data 436

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach. Although the need for telehealth is unmistakable, said Mehrota, policies should encourage "higher-value" applications for care and discourage "lower-value" ones.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy 192

AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies. For more information on live real-time telemedicine technologies and to begin developing your own custom solution, request a demo today.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Patient Experience 147

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In mode of attendee (and self-confessed collegial-groupie of Dr. Topol’s), I took in his remarks taking notes as fast as I could thanks to Mom teaching me how to type on an IBM Selectric (the significance of which I wrote about here in the Huffington Post ). “The U.S.

Health Policy 189

Health Policy Health Data Life Science Connected Health 189

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that one of CES 2024 keynote speakers is Elevance Health’s President and CEO Gail Boudreaux. “Elevance Health, a health insurance company?

Mental health 203

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 203

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

Last year, MITRE developed An Ethical Framework for the Use of Consumer-Generated Data in Health Care, to guide organizations holding peoples’ personal health information on how to be good data stewards and citizens.

Health Information 323

Health Information Health Data HIPAA Public Health 323

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“AI tools can bring transformative changes that enhance the delivery of care and improve health outcomes.” The calls-to-action are five — they are simple and they are bold: Eliminate bias and discrimination from health care.

Public Health 212

Public Health Digital Health Patient Experience Health Policy 212

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. TSIM serves as a road map on how to take a telehealth idea through a standardized approach to service scale and optimization.

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Telehealth Health Policy Healthcare IT Connected Health 155

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator. He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E.

Telehealth 117

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing 117

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team. If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information.

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Telehealth Medicare Primary Care Health Policy 115

Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

A few articles that have informed me include… In The Atlantic , the piece The Kids Aren’t Alright explained how the youngest health citizens in the country may experience the greatest long-time mental health trauma, learning from Wuhan’s experience with C19 back to Katrina and the impacts of adverse childhood events.

Mental health 253

Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Policy 253

Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The average outpatient visit in the United States runs $500, and an inpatient stay, $22,000, a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington on the global costs of medical services and how to fund universal health care.

Primary Care 211

Primary Care Medicare Telehealth Health Policy 211

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2022

The Building H Index is, in their words, flipping the script to reimagine how to bake health-by-design into companies’ product and service offerings.

Mental health 270

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience 270

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

How to deal? There’s a mix of public sector tactics, from Federal to State to local; technology vendor tasks; health care provider jobs to do in terms of workflows and database development; and, patient-focused work.

Digital Health 274

Digital Health Health Information Telehealth Health Data 274

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

This table comes from Bari and O’Neill’s essay, comparing HIPAA with the GDPR, with a proposal for how to extend HIPAA in the meantime…until U.S. There were fascinating and helpful innovations at CES 2020 addressing health, and healthy aging, in Las Vegas unveiled earlier this month.

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HIPAA Health Data Digital Health Health Information 422

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Whether you’re interested in learning more about state-by-state policies, the latest on healthcare cybersecurity, or how to attain financial independence working in this alternate career path, these telemedicine newsletters can keep you wired in.

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Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice 60

American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Anecdotally, we’ve had partner health systems tell us that their Medicaid populations are actually the most savvy about finding free sources of wifi, and often know how to make video calls through this free wifi alone, saving them any data usage or call minute fees. How to start using telemedicine for Medicaid recipients.

Telemedicine 48

Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy Primary Care 48

American Well

MARCH 5, 2018

Anecdotally, we’ve had partner health systems tell us that their Medicaid populations are actually the most savvy about finding free sources of wifi, and often know how to make video calls through this free wifi alone, saving them any data usage or call minute fees. How to start using telemedicine for Medicaid recipients.

Telemedicine 48

Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy Primary Care 48

Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

The Trust for America’s Health is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on public health and healthy communities. Health Populi’s Hot Points: How to deal with this think-the-unthinkable public and personal health reality?

Mental health 159

Mental health Public Health Pain management Pharmaceuticals 159

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with data science.

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Health IT eHealth HIE Health Information 66

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

While doctors noted to the AMA their top virtual care platform of choice was Zoom, some patients could not meet-up due to barriers of lacking a smartphone, tablet, or computer device; the ability to pay for connectivity to the Internet; or the know-how to be able to access that well-intentioned “digital front door” to a virtual visit.

Telehealth 156

Telehealth Primary Care Telemedicine Public Health 156

ACA Times

MAY 1, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the period of non-enforcement for certain non-compliant health policies under the Affordable Care Act through the end of 2020. 2 minute read: The U.S. More than $4.5

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2020

How to manage risk without complete information on the coronavirus? It became a top job or life-flow to manage our risks, pushing us down to the physiological and safety rungs of Maslow’s hierarchical basic needs ladder. I laid the brown arrow-crowded paper on the base of this page, pointing in every direction.

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Mental health Public Health Patient Experience Health Policy 234

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The companies are all part of EHIR, the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable coalition. The framework shown here comes out of a New England Journal of Medicine essay on how to advance health equity across four phases. Together, these companies employ about 500,000 workers who are Black.

Public Health 170

Public Health Nursing Healthcare Improvement Health Policy 170

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications.

Connected Health 182

Connected Health Digital Health HIPAA Telemedicine 182

Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

The Mental Health Policy Gap Excavated by Data Brokers The COVID-related surge in mental health disorders and the limitations on accessing in-person therapy Ignited a rapid shift towards telehealth and mHealth apps, where downloads increased by 200% between 2019 and 2020.

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Mental health mHealth HIPAA Health Data 99

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Deloitte provides a provocative argument for how to bend America’s unsustainable health care cost curve while enabling patients – morphing from consumers to health citizens “owning their care and health,” in Deloitte’s words.

Primary Care 170

Primary Care Public Health Interoperability Medicare 170

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you are interested in learning how to build your telehealth team, take this free course module: Building Your Telehealth Team. If you are interested in learning more about policy and reimbursement, bookmark these resources: Center for Connected Health Policy – state and national policy information.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Primary Care 57

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Time to look to the East and take some lessons on how to bring telehealth to people at home, in communities, and outside of U.S. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. As the Chinese proverb goes, “A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.”.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Two obvious places for our Hot Points to focus her are the issues of front-loading mental health and social care into primary care, and how to re-imagine primary care placing people/patients at home in the center of that dynamic.

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Public Health 156

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

How to respond? The pace of technological change has caused anxiety — 80% of people globally said the pace of tech change was too rapid, especially true in India, Brazil, China, Mexico, and Japan, where over 70% of citizens cited this problem.

Digital Health 267

Digital Health Primary Care Mental health Connected Health 267

GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a recent interview with Managed Care magazine , Mei Wa Kwong, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy, listed training as a major implementation obstacle.

Telemedicine 40

Telemedicine Health Policy Connected Health Nursing 40

BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 29, 2017

The language policymakers use in telehealth legislation may deter provider networks from offering remote services and tying the hands of payers looking to broad service options, according to a the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP). Other sectors’ policies, such as licensing boards’ requirements, affect the spread of telehealth.

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Telehealth Health Policy Connected Health Telemedicine 40

care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. The new CPT codes do exactly that!

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Remote care Health Policy Connected Care Connected Health 40