AMD Telemedicine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Another important distinction is that the reimbursement policies from private insurers vary between real-time and store-and-forward technologies.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Patient Experience 147

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? I asked myself, then went to my Oracle of Telehealth: Ann Mond Johnson, CEO of ATA (once named the American Telemedicine Association). It is clear that there’s no better use case for digital/tele/virtual health than what is unfolding right now.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The American Medical Association polled physicians in late 2021 to gauge doctors’ perspectives on telehealth. The report lays out physicians’ majority support for telehealth and key issues preventing further adoption and proliferation of use across the U.S.

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Telehealth Mobile Health Public Health Connected Health 425

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Telehealth Medicare Primary Care Health Policy 115

GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Yet for some clinicians, telemedicine is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started. Develop a strategy. Evaluate telemedicine solutions.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Health Policy EHR 52

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 122

Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing 122

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

Telehealth 57

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Primary Care 57

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

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 (..)

HIPAA 156

HIPAA Health Data Health Information Digital Health 156

BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 29, 2017

Editor’s Note: For payers, telehealth payer laws offer opportunities for extending networks beyond urban hubs and expanding their member enrollments. BHM offers services geared toward controlling expenses and integrating the behavioral health opportunities presented by telehealth. Telehealth Payer Laws.

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Telehealth Health Policy Connected Health Telemedicine 40

Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

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Telemedicine mHealth Psychiatry General practice 60

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

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

MARCH 17, 2022

.” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S. to consider in bolstering a strong primary care backbone for the nation’s health citizens: To narrow the wage gap between primary care/generalist doctors and specialists, noting that the U.S> ” In the U.S.,

Primary Care 156

Primary Care Mental health Telehealth Public Health 156

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. With that in mind, I hope the Building H team will add in grocery chains and retail pharmacies to their mix of consumer-facing company sectors considered in the Index.

Mental health 270

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Patient Experience 270

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

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.

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Mental health Digital Health Public Health Health Policy 253

American Well

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Arkansas Children’s Hospital expects to expand the telehealth program to more than 40 schools by next school year. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Telehealth Program Slashes ER Wait Times. All telehealth providers are from NYP, board certified and formally trained. Now, telemedicine is expanding to offer mental health care.

Telemedicine 48

Telemedicine Mental health Telehealth EMR 48

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

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.

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Telemedicine Connected Health Health Policy Primary Care 48

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

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. Here’s something every good telehealth program begins with: communication and collaboration. Creating an Optimal Environment for Telemedicine Adoption.

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Telemedicine Health Policy Connected Health Nursing 40

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

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

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

Lloyd Price

MAY 23, 2020

Babylon reports many patients are seeking advice on information about local council support services, seeking advice for activities to keep busy and how to remain healthy, and how to get support to access food and financial concerns.

Mental health 56

Mental health Digital Health Telehealth Health Policy 56

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

The HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Office of Health Policy found telehealth use during the initial COVID-19 peak increased from less than 1% of visits to 80%. Generally speaking, what are the multistate caregiver licensing challenges health systems and telemedicine companies face?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Health Policy Remote care 149

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The report on health care systems and providers was released this week: COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs was authored by experts on the front-line of health care delivery, medical education, and health policy. The paper describes the landscape of the U.S.

Public Health 170

Public Health Health Policy Leadership Mental health 170

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We do not know how the reduced use of care earlier this year will affect future costs and premiums,” KFF humbly concludes at the end of the 2020 report. 2018 – As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks.

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Public Health Telemedicine Telehealth Mental health 432

Health Populi

MAY 31, 2022

. “Today, anyone can access care by walking into an emergency room,” they observed, “but when it comes to telehealth, patients have to use a number of proprietary portals and platforms that are health system specific.

Mental health 220

Mental health Telehealth EHR Digital Health 220

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy. versus beyond."

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Telehealth Telemedicine Health Policy Healthcare IT 188

GlobalMed

JULY 21, 2019

Why aren’t more providers offering telehealth services? It shares the top 10 myths and realities of getting paid for virtual services, explains how to drive revenue and ROI, and provides a list of grant and funding resources. Resources like the Center for Connected Health Policy can help. Get funded. Patient Changes.

Telemedicine 40

Telemedicine Telehealth Health Policy Connected Health 40

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Key takeaways from the report are that, Telehealth has grown and will be a robust component of health care for patients and families — not a replacement for in-person care, but a part of a continuum of care in the U.S. ” The post How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S.

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Mental health Public Health Medical Billing Telehealth 280

Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A new study from Tia, the women’s health services platform, looks deeply into COVID-19’s negative impacts on working-age women and how they would advise the next occupant of the White House on health policy in Dear Future President — What Women Want for Healthcare in America.

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Health Policy Mental health Telehealth Telemedicine 263

Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Other states are considering how to jump on the privacy legislation bandwagon, which means that regulatory requirements will increase. Health plans will need to take more of a retail focus than what they’re accustomed to, Manoogian says. A lack of insurance coverage is a major impediment to telehealth adoption for most health systems.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, the other seven areas beyond health and well-being are adjacent to health, especially shopping and consumption (e.g.,

Telemedicine 436

Telemedicine Telehealth Digital Health Public Health 436