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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

(FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters). NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Telehealth happens across the U.S. Due to the collective ethos in the community, gun safety has been addressed as a public health issue, and the health care system and employers are committed to assuring cybersecurity and the protection of individuals’ health data.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. . Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care).

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MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

JUNE 25, 2018

Telehealth. ICT (Information and communication technology) has transformed the way we see the world by revolutionizing the medical industry and changing the modes of both medical practice and medical service delivery. 1 Telehealth is widely used to support patients with chronic health conditions.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For this report, Deloitte interviewed 60 health care chief financial officers to gauge their perspectives during the pandemic looking at the future of their organizations in the post-COVID environment. Deloitte has been talking about resilience in leadership across all industries, globally, throughout the pandemic.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 25, 2024

Surgeon General, Dr. Richard Carmona, Brings Wealth of Healthcare Expertise to DrKumo’s Advisory Board DrKumo, a leader in Remote Patient Monitoring – Home Telehealth (RPM-HT) solutions, is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, to its Advisory Board. Former U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2021

I welcomed the opportunity to learn from this team’s approach in weaving together the dynamic issues that help us to plan for the long-tail of COVID-19 and its impact on the economy and prospects for the health care industry and health citizens. PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 1, 2020

On Monday, 340 organizations signed a letter urging Congress to make telehealth flexibilities created during the COVID-19 pandemic, permanent. . If Congress does not act before the COVID-19 public health emergency expires, current flexibilities will disappear, according to stakeholders. WHY THIS MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Last year, I wrote about this program ’s seven pillars for human security in the context of industry announcements from John Deere (related to food security), L’Oreal (for personal safety and mobility), and MedWand (for access to healthcare).

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

These new work-and-life flows have changed our relationship with our personal doctors and local health care systems, pivoting us to virtual care and telehealth platforms.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered. The COVID-19 pandemic has, in fact, had a positive impact on spending per se given the volume-based nature of U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed many weaknesses in U.S.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. The quantifiable benefits of rural telehealth are transportation cost savings, lost wages savings, hospital cost savings, and increased revenues to local labs and pharmacies, NTCA calculated.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ultimately, getting to that fourth level of equity — addressing socioeconomic and environmental impacts — takes an even larger village where public sector organizations responsible for the bulk of these issues — from education to clean water and minimum wage standard-setting — must be corralled into the mix.

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JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. But these purchases will be made with greater attention to budget and value consumer mindsets firmly focused on (and stressed by) inflation.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It felt super appropriate that I met up with Abner Mason, Founder of SameSky Health, on Valentine’s Day 2022. My initial ask of Abner was to discuss the re-branding of ConsejoSano to SameSky Health , but I first wanted to hear the man’s origin story.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Key challenges facing people doing their own set-up include problems connecting with Wi-Fi networks (which is among the top technical problems consumer experience), inter-connectivity between devices due to industry fragmentation and lack of adoption of standards, and short battery life.

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APRIL 14, 2024

The Driving Forces for Health Care in 2030 Driving forces are the factors that shape a market space, and we can use the general list I show in the first column for virtually any industry we work in.

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APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. Getting to health equity is a team sport and requires collaboration. healthcare system.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Some insurers have also said they will cover telehealth visits at parity with in-person visits. These measures are commendable, but policies need to be put in place to ensure that the expansion of telemedicine is not temporary. At some point, I fervently hope the coronavirus will be a thing of the past.

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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. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Organizations working on the HEAL project include the American Medical Association, AT&T, Best Buy Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cambria Health, Google, Grapevine Health, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MLEM, Omron Healthcare, ResMed, Rimidi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Virginia Center for Telehealth and Validic.

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JUNE 12, 2022

The Biden administration recently signaled that it will extend the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which has been in place for nearly two-and-a-half years, beyond its current July 15 expiration date. As shown in the graphic above, a number of key pandemic-era policies would end if the PHE were discontinued.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

The NielsenIQ construct here smartly observes, in the #7 driving force that will change how consumes care for their health, Policy, Legislation, & Governance. ESG is necessary, but not sufficient, to improve public health.

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MAY 1, 2020

Practitioners such as therapists previously restricted from providing telehealth services for reimbursement can now do so, and CMS is also upping payments for telephone-only telehealth visits. The agency also said it will cover serology, or antibody testing, including certain FDA-authorized tests that patients self-collect at home.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The second graphic, developed by Spectrum IT Solutions, identifies some areas where losing net neutrality could negatively impact healthcare — namely, higher costs for better internet services (which less-affluent patients could afford), restricted flow of healthcare data, and eroded access to telehealth, remote and virtual care programs.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

That trust gap translates differently across industry sectors, which I’ve tracked on the Edelman Trust Barometer for many years. Note that the technology sector still ranks tops versus other industries, albeit dropped by a large 9 points now ranking very close to healthcare trust.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Here are the key factors we’re incorporating into health ecosystem plans, filtering their import and impact by industry segment. This is my gift to Health Populi readers, asking you to ponder how these driving forces shaping health consumers could shake up your businesses and work-worlds in the next year and beyond….

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