Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

. “There is mounting evidence that some of these [SDoH] initiatives are associated with improved health outcomes and reduced health care utilization,” a report from Deloitte asserted in a new report on social determinants of health published this week.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail. Many still think of virtual solutions as limited to symptoms-based video exams.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lead methodological development, data scrubbing, validation, and computation with data science tools such as machine learning, multiple regression, multiple imputation, natural language processing, geospatial, and temporal modeling. dashboards and visualizations) to support business needs. Tableau, ggplot).

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

But today’s telemedicine tools can enable evidence-based care and data sharing. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. Yet for some clinicians, telemedicine is still shrouded in mystery – often because they’re not sure how to get started.

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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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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Digital appointment reminders, self-scheduling features, mobile apps and other online tools can help reduce no-shows and keep patients engaged and motivated. Check a resource like Center for Connected Health Policy to find out the specific rules in your state. Identify suitable Medicaid patients in your practice.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 14, 2019

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I’ve heard the derisive comments from those in the health policy stratosphere that prefer centralized government command and control of health care in America. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Seema Verma. Initiatives.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

In reviewing state telehealth policies during COVID-19 , all states have implemented temporary executive orders or released guidance on telehealth access—although with significant variations. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Venture capital businesses have recently funded hundreds of startups developing technology-enabled digital health products, including wearable devices, mobile health applications, telemedicine, and personalized medicine tools. billion has been invested in digital health this decade (see Exhibit 1).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Healthcare providers should develop effective strategies to grow capacity and infrastructure for outpatient services and invest in innovative mobile technologies, diagnostic tools, and telemedicine systems. The Trump Administration supports increased use of Medicare Advantage and expanding consumer choices.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The exploding elderly population, in combination with a shrinking workforce to fund Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, will force our health system to ration care in new ways. These realities will increase the role of primary care as the needed coordinator of health services for patients. David Rahija.

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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. That’s the upside and it’s promising and exciting.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Ben currently co-leads NCQA’s Digital Measure Roadmap initiative, which is committed to improving the generation of knowledge tools derived from the process of quality measurement. Health Hats: Good morning, Ben Hamlin. It’s been an underlying aspect of my career ever since I got into health policy over two decades ago.

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Henry Kotula

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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). Providers will need to manage patients post-discharge and keep them healthy in their homes rather than in hospitals.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

"The Rural Action Plan identifies key, tangible areas where HHS agencies can soon make a real difference in the health outcomes of millions of Americans," said HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a statement. Providers have raised the question of reimbursement rates as a cause for anxiety about future telehealth availability. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

" Similarly, Meghan O'Toole, health policy advisor for Sen. " "Congress may not be the best suited to establishing payment rates for certain services," O'Toole said. But the next steps, he said, will be safeguarding access to that care. versus beyond."

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