Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Some historical perspective is useful for context.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

While an important first step, policy makers cannot simply infuse more funding to CHCs and expect them to withstand the challenges of the COVID-19 era. Payment parity —where telehealth is reimbursed at the same level as an in-person visit— is a crucial issue that must be addressed and instituted beyond the current public health emergency.

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Henry Kotula

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 2, 2023

In the nation’s search for spending smarter on health care, the U.S. Over the past year, many stakeholders have come together to develop creative solutions to address food security for all — as a driver of health, productivity, and sustainability for the U.S. health care system.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 5, 2020

county using 2017 Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data. They also used aggregated data from the CDC and local public health agencies to plot the rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases in each county as of May 12. Researchers determined the density of infectious disease physicians in every U.S. Four study findings: 1.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees. In 2019, there was a major sentinel event for public health made by a huge private sector force in America: Walmart.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. reduce the high cost of health care? The second chart details these health consumer strategies.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Health Politics, Policy and the President. level, and then the tighter lens on health politics and health policy. So at a Federal level, the two most key leaders for health policy aren’t in harmony as we start the new year. The biggest known-unknown for 2020 is politics on the macro/national U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. Nonetheless, VP Schinas enthused, “Never before in the history of the EU are we able to do so much in the area of public health,” he explained.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

They fought to erode key elements embedded in the law meant to protect health consumers’ rights: among them, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health; and the assurance that sick people would be covered by health insurance plans without prejudice. What a difference a year makes.

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