South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 24, 2018

Also, all telehealth services must meet the Medicare established set of criteria for reimbursement. The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a great resource to stay current on state and national policy. This booklet targets the Fee-For-Service Provider and may be helpful to you.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. The post Telehealth Policy Barriers to Observe appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

healthcare system lacks products and resources to meet this population’s unique cultural needs. We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care experience. By 2050, they’ll make up more than 30% of the population with 132.8

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Walter Ricciardi, who leads the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy’s National Institute of Health); and, Dr. Cesar Faldini, president of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, a top hospital, academic and research center for orthopedics and trauma. Adopting a strategy of ‘slow medicine’ may be more rewarding in many situations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

From 2003 to 2019, the theory that prices are the primary driver of America’s spending more on health care than any other country is still the case. in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. On the supply side, the U.S. and 300,000 people worldwide.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

JANUARY 4, 2018

This question and others were discussed at a forum I participated in, entitled “Leveraging Telehealth to Expand Access to High-Quality Care” and hosted by Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy (IHP) at the Center for Total Health in Washington, D.C., on December 14. A primary concern is cost. Unless the entire U.S.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Training and support – or the lack thereof – can make or break a virtual health program. 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. Unfortunately, that exact scenario plays out way too often.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

The group’s four doctors and two nurse practitioners quickly adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, sharply cutting back clinic hours and switching to virtual visits to keep patients and staff safe. But even with virtual visits, patient interaction was significantly lower.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Fortunately, there’s a solution that can benefit both provider revenue and population health: telemedicine. While virtual health can’t solve every Medicaid issue, it can dismantle many typical roadblocks: Providers and patients can meet as scheduled even if the patient has missed their bus or had a childcare cancellation.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 17, 2020

Test samples will be sent to whichever private laboratories have capacity, patients will be transferred from overloaded hospitals to less-crowded locations and physicians and nurses will make greater use of telemedicine. Emergency rooms will be slammed with visits from the worried well and the dangerously sick alike.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Its objective is to put an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of everyone on earth by combining the ever growing computing power of machines with the best medical expertise of humans to create a comprehensive, immediate and personalized health service and make it universally available.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[link] The executives featured in this article are all speaking at the Becker’s Healthcare 13th Annual Meeting April 3-6, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Question: What will hospitals and health systems look like in 10 years? President and CEO of Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.): Schuster, MD, PhD. Shireen Ahmad.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The FCC waived various spectrum use requirements on communications service providers that serve rural communities to meet the spike in internet use from telehealth and working from home directives. FCC temporarily opens up spectrum for rural communications services. The FCC’s COVID Telehealth Program has also been very popular.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation. Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it was making almost $48 million available in American Rescue Plan funding for public health capacity in rural and tribal communities, through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A growing volume of outpatient care will be provided in ambulatory surgery centers, primary care clinics, retail clinics, urgent care centers, nurse managed health centers, imaging facilities, emergency departments, retail clinics, and patients’ homes. The bar for providing a great experience and retaining members will also increase.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

They learn to perform a step-by-step process that considers all the important elements from previous records to ensure patient safety and meet organizational needs. Sarah collaborates with several teams at ReMedi , including leadership, data migration, chronic care management, and health policy.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

The Great Resignation has had real, material impacts in health systems the world over. the growing use of traveling nurses, for example, has led to greater labor costs, eroding financial operating margins and some hospitals’ fiscal viability. In the U.S., For a comprehensive look at staff shortages of clinicians in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

The point is we have to be intentional about meeting people where they are. Aaron Brandwein, Chief Revenue Officer at Net Health The Population Health Institute found that social determinants of health (SDoH) account for more than 70% of health outcomes. And digital tools can play a critical role.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Based on the volume and intensity of medical professional societies’ editorials on the 2020 Presidential Election, we may be in an inflection-curve moment for greater clinician engagement in politics as doctors and nurses take claim of their health citizenship. In the wake of the pandemic, some doctors and nurses in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 13, 2022

Three health care professions rank in the top four of the most honest and ethical rankings in Gallup’s annual poll on honesty and ethics in professions. And nurses are at the top of the list for the 20th year in a row. million nursing professionals. and other countries’) health care systems.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2021

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs. . The overall policy implication is that the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The Harvard Chan-Commonwealth Fund-NY Times survey asked an important question about trust in health care stakeholders: the most trusted groups in whom Americans held “a great deal” of trust were nurses (58%), followed by doctors (30%), and in third place hospitals, among 18% of people.

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