Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 10, 2019

AARP recently surveyed the health impact (that’s good), but not the cost of correcting hearing loss. Insurance coverage – a nightmare patchwork of options. So let’s see – uncorrected hearing loss is correlated with poorer health outcomes, one of which could be fall risk, another dementia. Seriously?

Medicare 106

Medicare 106

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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HIPAA Medical Billing Leadership Public Health 246

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The consequences of untreated hearing loss include social isolation, which itself is related to poorer health outcomes. . There remains a patchwork of options to help fund the expense. But delay worsens the isolation – and possibly contributes to risk from poorer health outcomes.

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Medicare 154