Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

RockHealth, the “first venture fund dedicated to digital health”, has declared this year a turning point in the market of offerings for older adults (aka baby boomers, particularly those 65+).

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Connected Health Initiative

AUGUST 3, 2020

The order takes specific aim at leveraging connected health technologies to better serve America’s rural communities which often suffer from access to primary and specialist care. We support the steps taken today through executive action.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes. Advocates applauded the statement, saying they are ready to work with the agency to ensure telehealth services continue safe care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2021

The Future Health Index report found that healthcare leaders appear to be taking a three-step approach to digital transformation: by investing in telehealth in the shorter term. by collaborating with other private hospitals and health technology companies. by investing in AI in the longer term. About one-third of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2023

Among those folks who have embraced techquity in their organizations, they tend to support a specific group of people or a community – most notably, Medicare, Medicaid, rural geographies, and BIPOC communities.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

The new Medicare Benefits Schedule item on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will provide eligible COVID-19-positive patients with access to prescriptions of antiviral medications, which are required to be taken within five days following the onset of symptoms. Australia offers telehealth subsidy for COVID-19 antiviral prescription.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

New CHI Report Finds Digital Health Technologies Must Play a Critical Role in Shifting American Healthcare Away from Fee-For-Service and Toward More Equitable and Effective Care. The COVID-19 pandemic has only made the need for an improved approach to advancing value-based care more urgent,” said Morgan Reed, executive director of CHI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2021

Perhaps this preference for in-person is simply an acknowledgement that many health needs can’t be met by a telehealth visit," CareSide mentioned. Last week, the Australian federal government announced that it is subsidising two new Medicare items that will enable 20 minute or longer teleconsultations. THE LARGER TREND.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 31, 2023

Prior to joining Good Measures, Donna most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Old Field Ventures, a digital health and services company focused on bringing digital health technologies and virtual care solutions to the market. s New England based companies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

" The goal is to "help the health technology community and providers as they continue to refine their development of telehealth and enhance virtual care," he said. They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare. " DME fraud has been around since Medicare started reimbursing for it, of course.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

About CHI: The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is the nation’s leading consortium of health technology innovators, policy experts, and patient advocates.

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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. CHI tracked the many policy changes affecting connected health technology since the start of the pandemic.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

Evidence clearly shows that digital health technologies helped expand access to healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and can address the massive toll chronic illnesses take on Americans and our healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Optum and Uber are partnering to make non-urgent medical transportation and healthy food delivery covered benefits for certain Medicare Advantage plans beginning in 2024. Highmark Health tapped Spring Health for increasing access to behavioral health. DeepScribe introduced a customization studio to its AI medical scribe.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prior to that, he led multi-million-dollar advertising strategies for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, including their go-to-market strategy of Medicare Part D plans. “I Most recently, Narayan served as the Chief Commercial Officer for PeriGen, Inc.,

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

CHI is a broad coalition of medical research centers, health associations, small businesses, and connected health companies that all see the importance of connected devices and software in healthcare. For example, RPM and RTM are both subject to the 20 percent copay required for Medicare coverage.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Behavior change in health is hard, especially when people don’t know the facts about the need to track chronic conditions and then feel empowered to make the changes to address those conditions.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Andrew shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations; these include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity, and social determinants of health. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Together, we advance solutions that enable providers and patients to achieve better health outcomes, reduce health costs and foster the adoption of transformative technology throughout the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 22, 2023

Chronic wounds are the leading risk factor for hospitalizations, with almost 20% of the Medicare population experiencing a chronic wound at any given time. Together, we can continue to revolutionize wound care for the millions of patients and providers in need.” Conservative estimates for the yearly cost of wound care in the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They are critical in times of a public health emergency like COVID-19, revolutionizing delivery of care to Medicare beneficiaries and other underserved populations “On behalf of the CHI Steering Committee and membership, I want to thank the House co-sponsors, Rep.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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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. In and beyond 2023, a trusted future is a healthy future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, said this past October that "obviously we need the expansion of broadband" to make that access happen. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., But it will take coverage parity too, she added. Otherwise telehealth won't work.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. Check with your payers.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 8, 2022

a multi-award-winning leader of Connected Health Technology, announced today its winning contract with ProHealth Partners, a well-established network of primary care physicians and specialists in the Greater Long Beach area with expansion into Los Angeles and Orange County areas with more than 200 physicians spanning more than 80 locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

So there was much consternation recently when the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a report saying that digital interventions weren’t helping people with diabetes much and weren’t worth their added costs. So do doctors and patients, before they go through the trouble of adopting a course of treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

"Especially hard hit have been safety-net clinics serving medically underserved and rural areas, many facing alarming drops in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements as a result of the drop in face-to-face consultations," wrote the report authors.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 4, 2024

This represents a significant portion of the healthcare market, estimated to be around 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial outpatient, office, and home health expenditures; this partnership positions Cardio Diagnostics at the forefront of this ongoing shift in healthcare delivery. healthcare spending could be virtualized.

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