Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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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. These will now be in place until the end of 2024.

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Health Populi

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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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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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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Health Populi

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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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 Commonwealth Fund offers several policy prescriptions for the U.S. ” In the U.S.,

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. billion in 2018.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine. Growing telehealth throughout the rural regions of the U.S.

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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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Health Populi

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 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

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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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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Organizations working on the HEAL project include the American Medical Association, AT&T, Best Buy Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cambria Health, Google, Grapevine Health, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MLEM, Omron Healthcare, ResMed, Rimidi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Virginia Center for Telehealth and Validic.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After continuing COVID-related telemental health laws and behavioral telehealth regulations in 2022, many key issues for 2023 are already decided. Both federal and state legislative groups have focused heavily on passing behavioral telehealth regulations to be enacted in 2023 and are poised to extend in subsequent years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a flurry of changes to regulations around telehealth and virtual care – the vast majority of which expire once the public health emergency ends. But neither took decisive, sweeping action that would permanently enshrine some of the major changes to telehealth policy.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

What gained in the pandemic year for trust were food and beverage and telecomms, in third and fourth places, which remind us the importance of those two basic necessities for our basic needs in the COVID-19 public health crisis and staying home to stay safe and healthy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

Even 1 in five people with incomes above $90,000 annually had trouble meeting basic expenses. One-in-three people were also dealing with a mental health conditions, split roughly between anxiety disorders and depression of some type.

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MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

McKinsey invites us to Meet the next-normal consumer in a recently-published research report describing changing consumer behavior responding to the COVID-19 lockdown and aftermath. The report gives us insights into the next-normal health consumer, which I’ll discuss in today’s post.

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