Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

[You can access state-by-state specifics on the Castlight Health supplemental dataset portal ]. Take preventive services across the entire national commercial population in the study. fewer commercially insured employees were tested for HbA1C (hemoglobin blood glucose test), and wellness exams dropped by nearly 11%.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My focus in this Health Populi post is on the health consumer’s mindset in the age of COVID-19 and the re-shaped “enlightened” expectations of patients as the public health crisis persists longer than many people had anticipated. Regarding the most important health care issues U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Many Medicare tools involving telehealth services were made possible by emergency blanket waivers responding to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) sparked by COVID-19. The primary changes authorized providers to offer telehealth video and audio-only services and to work from their homes while billing from their offices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Before the pandemic, Medicare's physician fee schedule covered a limited set of telehealth services in rural locations.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

To get to more blue, there are several performance indicators that must improve that would yield quantifiable benefits to the nation’s public health and individuals’ personal health. If all states achieved the top rates of performance… 14 million fewer adults would skip care due to cost.

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MeMD

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a result, more companies are turning to telebehavioral health to remove obstacles and give their staff access to the services they need most. Virtual Primary Care Can Combat Widespread Provider Shortages as Businesses Step up the Offering. Primary care is another area threatened by provider shortages.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

Across the country, only half of primary care doctor practices say they have enough cash to stay open for the next four weeks, according to one study, and many are already laying off or furloughing workers. The hospitals are getting massive bailouts,” said Dr. Christopher Crow, the president of Catalyst Health Network in Texas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Adding to the problem is the likelihood of minority groups to delay or go without needed care. A recent study noted that African American and Hispanic adults are less likely than white adults to have a usual source of care or have had a health visit in the past year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%).

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Henry Kotula

MAY 18, 2021

In January, the American Cancer Society, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and 73 other organizations, including many major health care systems, issued a statement stressing the urgency of preventive care. “We Consequences of Delayed Care. Pandemic Health Effects Will Outlast COVID-19.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Chronic Care Model is based upon the idea that people with chronic illnesses should have access to continuous care and support. It shifts the focus from acute and reactive care to proactive, population-based care. Is The Chronic Care Model Effective in Managing Chronic Conditions?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

The reality of having virtual services available from specialities like psychiatry, dermatology, primary care, plastic surgery would mean more accessible healthcare for all, regardless of income. There is an increased reimbursement for remote care services offered by the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

" The group plans to lobby policymakers to broaden coverage for care services in the home – including extension and expansion of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Without Walls provisions – advocate for bundled-payment models, home-based care and more. And it gives better outcomes.

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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). Quitting smoking. Getting support.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. Permanent All-Payer Parity For Telehealth Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Happy clinicians are the best ambassadors for virtual care,” the report asserted. “Sixty-nine percent of consumers said it was important to have a recommendation from their primary care doctor before using an alternative care setting such as virtual visits.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

The CCHP website also houses a vast resource center with research catalogs compiling peer-reviewed studies in several telemedicine domains. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Synchronous telemedicine: Synchronous telemedicine refers to telemedicine that is performed in real-time via video or phone consult.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

G oal #1: Building a more resilient, flexible and integrated delivery system that reduces racial disparities, promotes health equity, and supports the delivery of social care. Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . In vestments in Regional Planning through HEROs.

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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. Consumers are excited about connected health care , the Trusted Future study bullishly reports.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Some of those things have to do with self-care for health. My personal tour, thanks to Karsten and the Philips team, bolsters my own forecast that our homes, neighborhoods and local communities will be where our health and health care will be made and delivered in and beyond the public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. 3) Concierge primary care will become in much higher demand in 2024 for a certain portion of the market. payers, health systems, etc.).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. motivating the move of patients from acute care settings to their homes where patients were found to be improving.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Employees also have the option of taking up to a 48-month leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time course of study. Campbell County Health (Gillette, Wyo.). Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. Humana’s Bold Goal initiative targeting Medicare Advantage enrollees.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. COVID-19 exacerbated food insecurity as another side-effect of the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

are not confident that they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more, discussed in October 2023 in a study on patients and medical costs conducted by Access One. But health care costs in and of themselves create stress in patients-as-payors, as well – another uniquely American phenomenon.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2019

[This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen ]. Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal.

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