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” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take. ” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks. MORE
Healthcare’s importance to the U.S. Consider, then, that all of this refers to the U.S. Patient satisfaction and quality of care are of paramount importance to healthcare. According to the Washington, D.C.-based How psHEALTH surged forward with Appian’s help. MORE
Before providing remote medical services, you’ll need to identify the right resources and take the right training to ensure your telemedicine practice will be successful. A patient with Parkinson’s who lacks transportation to appointments? Telemedicine is exploding in popularity. MORE
We previously discussed how flaws in the FDA medical device reporting system have made it impossible to know how many adverse medical events have been caused by malfunctioning insulin pumps. There are moves to fix the system, but change comes slowly. MORE
trillion, waste amounts to nearly $1 trillion. In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn. MORE
Bundled payments and accountable care organizations have emerged as favored alternative payment models within Medicare. According to a blog post in Health Affairs, overlap between the two models could produce unintended consequences MORE
There’s no doubt that the healthcare industry is shifting inexorably from its traditional fee-for-service foundations to a more value-based model — a move that experts say will proceed regardless of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act. MORE
The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. This would allow the specialist to review the patient’s medical record before making a recommendation. MORE
this year to cover their healthcare costs for the rest of their life in retirement, Fidelity estimated. How to address this challenge? Show people what improving their personal health can do to boost their 401(k) plans. MORE
In addition, with the recent implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the rules surrounding healthcare reimbursement are being rewritten, incentivizing healthcare providers to prioritize the quality of patient visits over the quantity. MORE
For years now, the CMS and Medicare have been open to recognizing telehealth. For instance, Medicare limits its coverage to rural Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). Blog Reimbursement Strategies: Increasing Authorization & Payment TMHI Certification Program Accountable Care Organizations Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services How to Stay Out of Hot Water: Telehealth Documentation! MORE
Editor’s Note: BHM provides data reporting tools, metrics, and services integral to overcoming value-based payments barriers. Click HERE and discuss how BHM services reach your goals. The letter, dated March 1, came in response to questions from lawmakers about how to lower U.S. MORE
And so, too, are older folks re-imagining how and where their health care services could be delivered and consumed. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I recently collaborated with HealthMine on a survey looking into Medicare Advantage members’ views of health and digital technology. MORE
Consumers want healthcare that is: easy-to-access. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. MORE
The line-up from left to write included: Marianne Williamson. Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. MORE
As we look to the year ahead, this is an important time to reflect on 2017, and the exciting developments that will make 2018 even better for connected health innovation. We worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to propose incentive and reimbursement opportunities for the use of remote monitoring tools, we urged the U.S. What’s more, many Medicare doctors and hospitals rely on improvement activities to meet their MIPS requirements. MORE
Most recently, Kash was Vice President and General Manager of Digital Health at Stanford Health Care where he launched new patient-facing digital solutions, transformed health system operations, and spearheaded legislation to reform digital health access and reimbursement. Find Out How! MORE
It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. The post Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. MORE
For years, the CMS and Medicare have been open to recognizing telehealth. For instance, to date, Medicare has limited its coverage to serving only clients/patients in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). Blog Accountable Care Organizations Behavioral Telehealth Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services How to Stay Out of Hot Water: Telehealth Documentation! MORE
I quickly realized my primary care doctor was not very knowledgeable of T1D and despite the often-disliked Medicare insurance I had, I was fortunate to find an endocrinologist who had studied at the world-renowned T1D Barbara Davis Center in Denver. MORE
Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. As Poverty Awareness Month comes to an end this January, it’s a time for us to remember the strong relationship between poverty and health, and to consider the ongoing challenges of poverty among older adults. One in four Medicare beneficiaries has less than $15,000 in total savings, and almost one in 12 has no savings or is in debt. [1] MORE
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Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation. MORE
Last month I shared an update on my upcoming book, The New Mobile Age , and am excited to share a bit more about this work. I’ve been honored to gather input from a long list of esteemed colleagues and wanted to share a few ideas I believe are critical in our thinking about the healthspan. MORE
What have those upstart megaliths like Amazon, Apple, Google, Walmart, Lyft and Uber been toying with lately to disrupt our traditional healthcare models? Let’s take a look at the latest initiatives of the commercial giants who are putting the most money behind strategies to transform the healthcare industry. Stoddard recently said that Haven will focus on access to primary care, simpler insurance benefits, and lowering prescription drug prices. MORE
There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Younger Medicare beneficiaries are more digitally engaged (connected) than their older peers. MORE
Here is a situation that many of our telehealth partners face daily: a Medicare age patient is being discharged from telehealth. Suddenly, after 60 days, the patient is not only losing their home health services, but also the technology that they have come to rely on to help manage their chronic condition. A very common question that our partners receive from these patients and their caregivers – is there any way to keep the telehealth equipment? MORE
It is just going to be the way we deliver health. Commenting on a telemedicine study shared by HP Healthcare at MobiHealthNews, Deibert attributes the expansion of digital healthcare to a number of industry-wide factors, including: The need to correct an ongoing shortage of clinicians. MORE
Consumers want healthcare that is: easy-to-access. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. MORE
Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Messaging is also essential to success. MORE
The dating site Match.com wants to help singles “find the kind of relationship they’re looking for” by providing “the tools they need to help take the lottery out of love.”. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to do the same for the relationship between patients and doctors through the “bi-directional availability of data,” as a notice in the Federal Register puts it. Moreover, PGHD doesn’t have to be digital at all. MORE
We started HBI Solutions with a more sophisticated bent on using data and data science techniques to solve problems in healthcare. We use data science methods to do that. What are the implications of predicting the outcomes of patients who may not even know they have a problem, as you did in applying machine learning to EHR data to identify people likely to eventually have chronic kidney disease? Our more savvy clients are starting to get into disease models. MORE
Just knowing how to “say” each of these terms is an accomplishment. After all, both healthcare and ATC follow tightly defined processes AND always leave ultimate decisions up to the judgment of professionals — doctors and nurses, controllers and pilots. How much is it worth? MORE
This week convened the ATA annual conference where healthcare industry stakeholders met up to deal with the current telehealth environment and imagine what the future prospects would/could be. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. MORE
After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, Meaningful Use was not part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 2010 bill that’s come to be known as Obamacare. MORE
Health Populi
AUGUST 21, 2019
There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Younger Medicare beneficiaries are more digitally engaged (connected) than their older peers.
MedTech Boston
JUNE 5, 2019
As the Trump administration tries to invalidate the Affordable Care Act in the courts and progressive Democrats promote “Medicare for All,” the. The post Value for All: How to Fix American Healthcare appeared first on MedTech Boston.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JULY 22, 2018
For years, the CMS and Medicare have been open to recognizing telehealth. For instance, to date, Medicare has limited its coverage to serving only clients/patients in rural Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). Blog Accountable Care Organizations Behavioral Telehealth Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services How to Stay Out of Hot Water: Telehealth Documentation!
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JULY 19, 2018
For years now, the CMS and Medicare have been open to recognizing telehealth. For instance, Medicare limits its coverage to rural Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA). Blog Reimbursement Strategies: Increasing Authorization & Payment TMHI Certification Program Accountable Care Organizations Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services How to Stay Out of Hot Water: Telehealth Documentation!
Health Populi
JUNE 28, 2019
The line-up from left to write included: Marianne Williamson. Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status.
GlobalMed
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Before providing remote medical services, you’ll need to identify the right resources and take the right training to ensure your telemedicine practice will be successful. A patient with Parkinson’s who lacks transportation to appointments? Telemedicine is exploding in popularity.
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Health Recovery Solutions
AUGUST 6, 2019
Here is a situation that many of our telehealth partners face daily: a Medicare age patient is being discharged from telehealth. Suddenly, after 60 days, the patient is not only losing their home health services, but also the technology that they have come to rely on to help manage their chronic condition. A very common question that our partners receive from these patients and their caregivers – is there any way to keep the telehealth equipment?
Health Populi
OCTOBER 8, 2019
trillion, waste amounts to nearly $1 trillion. In “Waste in the US Health Care System,” a team from Humana and the Univrsity of Pittsburgh recalibrated the previous finding of 30% of wasted spending to the 25%, which equates to a waste-range of $760 bn to $935 bn.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 3, 2019
And so, too, are older folks re-imagining how and where their health care services could be delivered and consumed. Health Populi’s Hot Points: I recently collaborated with HealthMine on a survey looking into Medicare Advantage members’ views of health and digital technology.
Insulin Nation
JULY 23, 2019
I quickly realized my primary care doctor was not very knowledgeable of T1D and despite the often-disliked Medicare insurance I had, I was fortunate to find an endocrinologist who had studied at the world-renowned T1D Barbara Davis Center in Denver.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Bundled payments and accountable care organizations have emerged as favored alternative payment models within Medicare. According to a blog post in Health Affairs, overlap between the two models could produce unintended consequences
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Health Populi
MAY 3, 2019
” “Citizens” in this sense goes back to the Ancient Greeks: I return to Hippocrates, whose name is, of course, the root of The Hippocratic Oath that physicians take. ” Hippocrates’ book The Corpus is thought to be one of the first medical textbooks.
CMS.gov
JANUARY 31, 2019
Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. As Poverty Awareness Month comes to an end this January, it’s a time for us to remember the strong relationship between poverty and health, and to consider the ongoing challenges of poverty among older adults. One in four Medicare beneficiaries has less than $15,000 in total savings, and almost one in 12 has no savings or is in debt. [1]
Meaningful HIT News
MARCH 30, 2017
After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, Meaningful Use was not part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 2010 bill that’s come to be known as Obamacare.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 6, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a request for information (RFI) on how to evolve its “Patients over Paperwork” initiative that was initially launched in 2017.Since launching in fall 2017, according to agency
Health Populi
DECEMBER 19, 2018
It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. The post Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 8, 2019
And for the first time in modern American history, major candidates are taking strong and varied stances on how their vision of our future healthcare system should look. The Medicare for All Option. The Medicare for Some Option. Unfortunately, this can lead to two major problems.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Rising health care costs continue to concern most Americans, with one in two people believing they’re one sickness away from getting into financial trouble, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted for The Physicians Foundation.
Health Populi
APRIL 18, 2019
This week convened the ATA annual conference where healthcare industry stakeholders met up to deal with the current telehealth environment and imagine what the future prospects would/could be. Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
AUGUST 8, 2018
Consumers want healthcare that is: easy-to-access. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs.
care innovations
DECEMBER 26, 2018
There’s no doubt that the healthcare industry is shifting inexorably from its traditional fee-for-service foundations to a more value-based model — a move that experts say will proceed regardless of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. This would allow the specialist to review the patient’s medical record before making a recommendation.
Mobile Health Matters
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
In addition, with the recent implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the rules surrounding healthcare reimbursement are being rewritten, incentivizing healthcare providers to prioritize the quality of patient visits over the quantity.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 7, 2018
When people with Type 2 Diabetes start basal insulin treatment, the goal is to reach a lower fasting glucose target. In most cases, this is because their insulin dosage remains unchanged or increases too little to meaningfully lower their BG levels.
Health Populi
JULY 16, 2018
this year to cover their healthcare costs for the rest of their life in retirement, Fidelity estimated. How to address this challenge? Show people what improving their personal health can do to boost their 401(k) plans.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MARCH 5, 2019
Editor’s Note: BHM provides data reporting tools, metrics, and services integral to overcoming value-based payments barriers. Click HERE and discuss how BHM services reach your goals. The letter, dated March 1, came in response to questions from lawmakers about how to lower U.S.
Appian
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Healthcare’s importance to the U.S. Consider, then, that all of this refers to the U.S. Patient satisfaction and quality of care are of paramount importance to healthcare. According to the Washington, D.C.-based How psHEALTH surged forward with Appian’s help.
Digital Health Today
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Most recently, Kash was Vice President and General Manager of Digital Health at Stanford Health Care where he launched new patient-facing digital solutions, transformed health system operations, and spearheaded legislation to reform digital health access and reimbursement. Find Out How!
Insulin Nation
MARCH 24, 2015
At Insulin Nation, we often get asked about how to find assistance to pay for diabetes treatment. The team at Integrated Diabetes Services put together a small guide of resources, which they were gracious enough to share with us. (In To learn more, go to [link].
Insulin Nation
MARCH 24, 2015
At Insulin Nation, we often get asked about how to find assistance to pay for diabetes treatment. The team at Integrated Diabetes Services put together a small guide of resources, which they were gracious enough to share with us. (In To learn more, go to [link].
care innovations
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Just knowing how to “say” each of these terms is an accomplishment. After all, both healthcare and ATC follow tightly defined processes AND always leave ultimate decisions up to the judgment of professionals — doctors and nurses, controllers and pilots. How much is it worth?
HIStalk Interviews
JANUARY 21, 2019
We started HBI Solutions with a more sophisticated bent on using data and data science techniques to solve problems in healthcare. We use data science methods to do that. What are the implications of predicting the outcomes of patients who may not even know they have a problem, as you did in applying machine learning to EHR data to identify people likely to eventually have chronic kidney disease? Our more savvy clients are starting to get into disease models.
Phoenix Health Systems
APRIL 5, 2019
What have those upstart megaliths like Amazon, Apple, Google, Walmart, Lyft and Uber been toying with lately to disrupt our traditional healthcare models? Let’s take a look at the latest initiatives of the commercial giants who are putting the most money behind strategies to transform the healthcare industry. Stoddard recently said that Haven will focus on access to primary care, simpler insurance benefits, and lowering prescription drug prices.
The cHealth Blog
AUGUST 23, 2017
Last month I shared an update on my upcoming book, The New Mobile Age , and am excited to share a bit more about this work. I’ve been honored to gather input from a long list of esteemed colleagues and wanted to share a few ideas I believe are critical in our thinking about the healthspan.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Consumers want healthcare that is: easy-to-access. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs.
Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The dating site Match.com wants to help singles “find the kind of relationship they’re looking for” by providing “the tools they need to help take the lottery out of love.”. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to do the same for the relationship between patients and doctors through the “bi-directional availability of data,” as a notice in the Federal Register puts it. Moreover, PGHD doesn’t have to be digital at all.
Insulin Nation
AUGUST 20, 2015
We previously discussed how flaws in the FDA medical device reporting system have made it impossible to know how many adverse medical events have been caused by malfunctioning insulin pumps. There are moves to fix the system, but change comes slowly.
American Well
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Messaging is also essential to success.
care innovations
OCTOBER 3, 2018
It is just going to be the way we deliver health. Commenting on a telemedicine study shared by HP Healthcare at MobiHealthNews, Deibert attributes the expansion of digital healthcare to a number of industry-wide factors, including: The need to correct an ongoing shortage of clinicians.
ConnectedHealth
JANUARY 2, 2018
As we look to the year ahead, this is an important time to reflect on 2017, and the exciting developments that will make 2018 even better for connected health innovation. We worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to propose incentive and reimbursement opportunities for the use of remote monitoring tools, we urged the U.S. What’s more, many Medicare doctors and hospitals rely on improvement activities to meet their MIPS requirements.
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