Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR). According to the WHO , health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being. Occupation.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

We begin 2023 with the opening of CES 2023, the world’s largest annual meet-up of consumer electronics innovators, companies, and retailers. How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Life expectancy in the U.S.

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MAY 1, 2019

Today, the Brookings Institution convened a meeting on the funding for social determinants of health to address disparities, costs, and quality of healthcare in America. Chapter 7 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.”

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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? That’s the supply side of HLTH.

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MARCH 3, 2021

.” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Relevance is built on recognizing, meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations of organizations. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

The meeting will be a strategically important, as the title of the conference asks: “What Now? Follow the meeting on Twitter at #ATA2022. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA.

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MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge? Health Populi’s Hot Points: So, can the U.S. Joseph Health (literally “Ground Zero” for Patient 1 of COVID-19 in the U.S.)

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APRIL 14, 2020

Today kicked off the annual 3-day meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. ” Finally, I agree with Gita when she recommends that, “policymakers will need to ensure that people are able to meet their needs and that businesses can pick up once the acute phases of the pandemic pass.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Particularly for risk adjustment (RA) reviews, even the slightest gaps in reporting leaves health plans at risk for drops in quality ratings and subsequent revenue loss. Test and validate to ensure output meets quality standards, and records can be pulled and exchanged at scale. Patient privacy. Data quality. Risk adjustment scores.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Couple this with the sustainability companies working on accessibility, energy, food-tech, smart cities, and clean water, and we find CES convening a meeting that is working hard to walk the talk about “inclusion.” Some of the exhibitors collaborating in the HS4A showcase include Abbott, AARP, Bosch, Nasdaq, and Siemens.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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JULY 14, 2023

In May, the FDA convened a joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee to review of the science and safety behind the Opill.

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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. Would that we in America could embrace such a public health message for all.

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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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MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now, on to scaling this for all who need access to quality, truly accessible mental and behavioral health services. For health citizen/patient demand to meet up with that growing supply side will require health plans, payment designs, and social barriers to align. That is indeed the case.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The last chapter of my book, HealthConsuming, addresses the question of whether Americans can morph from health consumers to “health citizens.” Today, I’m speaking on that very topic at the Microsoft Envision Forum Healthcare meeting addressing stakeholders representing the many touchpoints in the U.S. health care system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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MARCH 17, 2022

funding is directed to meeting the needs of young and working-age people through early childhood education and parental leave allowances.” ” The Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S. The relatively higher rate of social workers on U.S. For example, comparatively less U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2019

I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens. Marc Ferrara, CEO Information Services with Jobson, introduced the meeting with some context. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. Rapid Implementation of an Interprofessional 1-800-COVID19 Hotline Call Center to Support a Public Health Crisis , Dr. Kevin Sexton.

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MARCH 17, 2020

From WHO to the local-local level, my local news outlet Main Line Today offered a practical list of self-care items to attend to related to social distance impacts for managing our everyday stress, wellness, and emotional health.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Increasingly, as patients bear more first-dollar costs through high-deductible health plans, co-payments and co-insurance sharing, the patient-as-payor has become more sensitive to these prices. Chan School of Public Health with POLITICO looked into Americans’ Health and Education Priorities for the New Congress in 2019.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are green shoots in healthcare communities demonstrating that adopting a variety of digital health tools can boost economies. Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. And that is, ultimately, to benefit the patient at the center of care and the community.

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JULY 6, 2018

.” The way forward to bolstering outcomes rooted in the latest clinical learnings involves all healthcare stakeholders: Governments, who should have a national healthcare policy and strategy, a resilient information/technology infrastructure, partnerships between providers and patients/”users”, and value-based purchasing; Health systems, (..)

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

These folks, then, recruited other peers to be trained, convening more meet-ups, and so on. That’s the village I want to live and Make Health in. This involved training a group of patients and consumers at-risk of contracting HIV, and convening counseling sessions. Over time, HIV cases dropped by a factor of four in the Ukraine.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Those in complete isolation actually came to look forward to Zoom meetings and telemedicine appointments. And tech-slow people like my grandmother probably wouldn’t have made it through without the good folks at the local public library loading her loans into the trunk through a touch-free lending system.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Keeping these practices open is not about protecting the doctors’ livelihoods, said Michael Chernew, a health policy professor at Harvard Medical School. “I I worry about how well these practices will be able to shoulder the financial burden to be able to meet the health care needs people have,” he said. “If

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APRIL 14, 2024

Pick Two and Meet Me in the Futures The two that make me most nervous because they’re so bloody important, and for which I’m also quite uncertain, are these two: America’s social ethos on one end individualistic and at the other, community-driven; coupled with, Health care financing, thinking mostly public-sector driven versus private/commercial.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 23, 2020

For systems seeking direct partnerships with employers, there’s a window of opportunity right now to find those businesses committed to continuing to offer benefits, who are looking for a creative, local alternative—and to get that first Zoom meeting on the calendar.

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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. Financial health will continue to blur into physical and emotional well-being in 2023. healthcare system.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In this post, I’m considering the home as health platform, room-by-room and in the context of continuity of health care and wellness.

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