Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

Telehealth 227

Telehealth Telemedicine FHIR Medicare 227

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. Tableau, ggplot).

Health IT 68

Health IT eHealth HIE Health Information 68

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

Digital Health 52

Digital Health Leadership Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

Public Health 199

Public Health Medicare Health Technology Patient Experience 199

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S.,

Telehealth 278

Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 278

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

Telehealth 193

Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology 193

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

Medicare 193

Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 193

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Over time, America’s approach to health care provision fragmented by plan sponsor, whether U.S. government (which offers several flavors of plans through the VA, Tricare for active military, Medicare for aging people and Medicaid for people with low-incomes) or private sector employers, unions, and other insurance-conveners.

Medicare 136

Medicare Patient Experience Health Policy 136

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

Pharmaceuticals 130

Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 130

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Providers will need to manage patients post-discharge and keep them healthy in their homes rather than in hospitals. Though not as high profile as Anthem’s policies, payers have been narrowing provider networks to bring down costs. This has been especially true in ACA exchange plans and Medicare Advantage (MA).

Medicare 32

Medicare Accountable Care Telemedicine Patient Experience 32

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data. Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. The CDC has an Environmental Justice Index to find correlations between environmental problems and health.

Public Health 105

Public Health HIE Medicare Health IT 105

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 1, 2023

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.): Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations. David Rahija. Ronda Lehman, PharmD.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Nursing Patient Experience Medicare 41

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

Medicare 147

Medicare Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Patient Experience 147

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. The Trump Administration supports increased use of Medicare Advantage and expanding consumer choices.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2021

adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. This patient experience crosses political parties in the U.S.,

Medicare 170

Medicare Health Policy Patient Experience Telehealth 170

Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

The issue of health care costs, and in particular out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, continues to be a priority for most U.S. voters across political party.

Medical Billing 182

Medical Billing Mental health Medicare Patient Experience 182

Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2019

is prescription drug prices — that they’re too high, that the Federal government should negotiate to lower costs for Medicare enrollees, and that out-of-pocket costs for drugs should be limited. One of the only issues bringing people together in the U.S.

Pharmaceuticals 140

Pharmaceuticals Life Science Medicare BioTech 140

Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The same holds for insurance status, whether commercially insured by an employer or enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare, through a health insurance marketplace, or uninsured. And there’s no big Venus/Mars split by gender, although at the margin more women believe in affordable health care as a right than men.

Medicare 209

Medicare Patient Experience Health Policy 209