Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator. He is professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, staff physician at Michael E.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Center for Connected Health Policy is a great resource for organizations interested in following the evolving landscape of telehealth policy. TSIM consists of six phases: pipeline, strategy, development, implementation, operations and continuous quality improvement.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health. Why has this been the case? Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. Three quarters of GPs surveyed have said they are seeing between one and five people a day suffering with loneliness, which is linked to a range of damaging health impacts, like heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 25, 2022

This risk is due to: lack of access to the continuum of care, lack of available and affordable housing, cross-system fragmentation, youth being discharged to the streets from inpatient or residential treatment, inconsistent oversight of behavioral health policies. incentivizing cross-agency coordination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Witnesses offered a variety of strategies for effectively addressing the future of telehealth. Some, such as Stanford Health Care Chief of Staff Dr. Megan Mahoney, noted that the transition to telehealth amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic enabled more than 225,000 of the system's patients to complete their first video visit.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Discrimination in health care is reported by more people in the U.S. we learn in the research reported in The Intersection of Health Equity in Communities & Business Strategy: A Call-to-Action , from Omnicomm PR Group (OPRG) and Atlantic Insights. than in Germany, Spain, or the U.K.,

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Develop a strategy. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Blazing the Virtual Health Trail.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Health care, through telehealth, health education, and wearable sensors that make up the Internet of Things for medical and healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

Among APA’s recommendations in the SDoH report to address stress and disparities are to, Support and conduct research to identify strategies that work to ameliorate stress and risk exposure. Advocate for and fund mental health services for people under stress, among other strategies. In this pandemic era, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

About Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer Mo Weitnauer is the Chief Product Officer at MRO where she is responsible for product strategy and roadmap. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Volumes are rising, and thankfully help is at hand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By Tyler Williams, Directory of Strategy, AR Optimization, ZOLL Data Systems. As a best practice, to understand state-specific policies, providers can check the Center for Connected Health Policy State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. [ii].

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2022

To improve measurement of a “modernized” understand of health, with better data and more holistically across the many dimensions that make health. To scale what works, based on evidence and proven interventions — which depends on our reducing biases in our assumptions, models and strategies.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

The addition of these determinants of health data has enriched the Well-Being Index and better inform our planning and strategies, whether for public policy or commercial health care products and services. Housing and transportation (e.g., the map breaks out the findings by State in quintiles.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

For more information about these waivers in the downloadable that was created and made publically available by the National Policy Center – Center for Connected Health Policy: M edicare Telehealth/Connected Health Waivers Post-PHE The Administration, States, and private insurance plans will continue to provide guidance in the coming months.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

JANUARY 25, 2016

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente are studying autism with the belief that their findings could lead to development of better prevention and treatment strategies. See more of this story: Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to making cutting out waste in healthcare spending Job 1, OECD also notes that medical errors also represent waste in clinical settings, and that employing trained clinical workers to function at the top of their abilities could also be a useful strategy for cost-saving and extending care for access.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2022

ESHB monitoring would enable consumers and investors to gauge what organizations are doing more and/or better to support peoples’ health. They coin the acronym for this ESHG.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 31, 2018

Created by the de Beaumont Foundation to promote practices that make cities healthier, CityHealth tracks and reports on proven policies, and works with cities to advance policies that achieve community health priorities. Bechara Choucair, MD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Value-based payment platform provider Clarify Health launched Clarify Access , an analytics tool designed to help pharma companies develop market access strategies. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

Among people who felt stressed (the 56% net sample reporting “very + somewhat stressed”), consumers looked to self-care strategies to alleviate their anxiety. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

The growth of public sector incentives in Medicare for social supports, and growth of value-based payment in commercial plans, are forces nudging health care providers toward bundling SDoH services into targeted programs.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This highlights the importance of telehealth for Medicaid in expanding access to behavioral health services, especially for those in remote or underserved areas. ” These findings demonstrate the significant shift towards telehealth as a solution for providing behavioral health care during the pandemic.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Develop a strategy. Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. Old strategies haven’t worked; it’s time for new approaches that put modern technology to its most valuable use.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

For example, Abner now sees that every Medicaid RFP has health equity embedded in it. We then came full circle to my initial question: why the re-branding strategy, moving from “ConsejoSano” to “SameSky Health?”. People are being held to account in a way they weren’t before,” he observes.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

Ultimately, respect, empathy, access, and affordable care are key ingredients in the prescription for rebuilding trust in health care systems.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

By putting this report out at this time, the AMA hopes to help identify opportunities for health care stakeholders to support digitally-enabled care as they, in the words of the report, “develop their coverage and payment policies and strategies in the years ahead.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2018

.” I interpret this to mean that, in gaining perspective from “elevated ground,” we can both manage risk (the defensive play in Von Clausewitz’s strategic thinking) as well as operating with “separate masses” on multiple fronts (in the offensive strategy).

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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mHealth Insight

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Topics/Speakers will include: Introduction & Background Prof David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, UCL. Community Pharmacy in Primary Care Mr Steve Brine, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health at UK Dept of Health & MP for Winchester (invited).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tracking health information doesn’t result in better outcomes in and of itself, Deloitte’s report recognizes: it takes environmental nudges, like behavioral economic strategies and public policies like healthy agricultural supports and active transportation, to move people toward healthy behaviors and sustain them.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Among the 26% of US broadband households that purchased a connected device during the COVID-19 crisis (between February 2020 to May 2020), the leading reasons given for purchase were for entertainment, to help someone work from home, and to help someone in the home complete schoolwork remotely,” the report noted.

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