Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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HIPAA Public Health Leadership Mental health 340

Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Patient Experience Primary Care Mental health Public Health 170

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare. This work started in 2023 involving Walmart Health clinics serving Medicare members and looking to partner with UnitedHealth plan members and others.

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Primary Care Medicare Medical Billing Public Health 212

Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Telemedicine 427

Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

In addition to the points I explore here on patient administrative burden, please check out the KFF survey for more insights into peoples’ access to mental health benefits and other experiences with health plans. The top reason people in the U.S. The Qualtrics Study explored the views of over 1,000 U.S.

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Medical Billing Mental health Patient Experience Medicare 156

Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Playing a crucial role in hospital-at-home programs, these technologies complement in-home visits and provide patients with a complete range of hospital services, including mental health, nephrology, and case management. I am particularly excited about digital therapies for mental health. Currently, in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S. healthcare system.

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Mental health Telehealth Remote care Patient Experience 111

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

There are other forms of fear taking hold of the COVID-19 era health consumer: namely, financial anxiety in the wake of the pandemic. Nearly every respondent in the study reported having health insurance coverage. Among those covered with insurance, one-half had employer-sponsored insurance, 1 in 4 Medicare, and 13%, individual cover.

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Telehealth Medicare Patient Experience Mental health 398

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Public Health 292

Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Likewise, depression can increase the risk of many physical health problems such as heart disease and stroke. For patients.

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Primary Care Mental health Psychiatry Telehealth 98

Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Managing all of these programs can create challenges… and that’s why a health data aggregation platform is an essential piece of the puzzle, allowing clinicians to extend their reach by embedding actionable data directly into their workflows while also offering a better patient experience.

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Patient Experience Health Data EHR Medicare 52

Iris Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

Every day, we see first-hand how telehealth improves access, bridges care gaps, and enhances patient experiences and outcomes. With the great demand for timely, high-quality care for many Americans, telehealth has changed how patients receive care and how health systems, community clinics, and providers facilitate care.

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Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience Telemedicine 95

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects and interactions, the stigma to admitting that the patient has a condition (particularly concerning mental health), and sometimes even opposition by family members.

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Nursing Medicare Mental health Digital Health 97

Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Health care utilization declined due to patients foregoing, rather than delaying, care. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs).

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Pharmaceuticals Primary Care Mental health Public Health 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. An example is using automation to communicate to the food delivery team that the patient is currently getting an MRI at the hospital and to not deliver food to the patient's home until 2 p.m.

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Nursing Hospital IT Telehealth Mental health 142

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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Telehealth Mental health Medicare Telemedicine 101

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Telehealth Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 278

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. Today in the U.S., The Policies for Streamlining Care.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 2, 2018

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Funding Opportunity: Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program. The gap areas include, but not limited to: Orthopedic Surgery, Pathology, Radiology, Mental Health and substance use conditions, Oncology, Palliative Care, and Emergency Medicine. Initiatives.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I recently collaborated with HealthMine on a survey looking into Medicare Advantage members’ views of health and digital technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

That sudden experiment allowed for valuable insights that healthcare organizations in 2021 can use to fine-tune where they should land on the spectrum of virtual and in-person – in ways that make the most sense for care delivery, patient experience, reimbursement and clinical research.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned.

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Telehealth Mobile Health Mental health Medicare 173

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Telehealth Telemedicine Public Health HIPAA 158

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

I discussed Costco’s approach to the pharmacy last month in Health Populi, asking the question, “What if Costco designed the prescription drug sales model?” government would have saved $2.6 billion in 2018.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 203

Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

. “Employer health spending has grown from 6 percent of total wages in 1988 to more than 12 percent in 2018,” driven by healthcare prices growing faster than the general economy, and the adoption of new technologies, procedures, and increasingly expensive new prescription drugs, PwC observes. economy by 2026.

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Medicare Telehealth Nursing Pharmaceuticals 159

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation).

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Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 169

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Which virus is it?”

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Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. I hope and believe that 2024 will be the year when more patients, providers, and payers embrace a virtual-first approach to improve access to cancer treatment and support.

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Health IT Telehealth Mental health Nursing 88

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the patient is increasingly the payor, some of those savings accrue to her, especially if she uses a health savings account where OTC meds are claimable with a tax advantage. Note the new alliance between Walmart and Anthem to channel OTC meds to Medicare Advantage members).

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Medicare Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience 193

Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Connected Health 130

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patients’ experiences. Participants will also be asked to use sleep sensors in their beds and to undergo mental health tests.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sherry Rais, Co-Founder and CEO at Enthea Increased focus on mental and emotional well-being: Employers will continue to prioritize mental health benefits, offering more comprehensive coverage and support programs. The healthcare landscape will likely witness challenges and adjustments in Medicare Advantage programs.

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Health IT Primary Care Digital Health Mental health 75

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Research shows that 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options, and organizations are beginning to invest in technology and infrastructure that will enhance the patient experience and empower them to make educated care decisions. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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