2016 Connected Health Health Policy 
Health Populi
MARCH 3, 2025
We learned a lot about health equity and disparities during the pandemic: one key driver of health (or social determinant of health, SDoH) which had been one of my talking points since writing about it in the Huffington Post in 2016 was connectivity — the Internet kind of connection.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 21, 2018
These policy recommendations are rooted in a tragedy: the murder of Jo Cox, the Labour MP who was murdered in 2016. And here is an important essay, quite timely to revisit from 2016, from The New Yorker on Jo Cox, the Brexit Vote, and the Politics of Murder. Jo had set up the Commission on Loneliness before she was killed.
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Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Why this call-to-action on the 118 th U.S. Congress to address telehealth right now?
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2019
The OECD calls this out as unequal access to broadband of sufficient quality where the share of households with broadband connections in rural areas is less than the share in urban areas — a gap that is even more significant when accounting for connection speed (which represents the quality of the connection).
American Well
MARCH 5, 2018
In fact, in 2016, 21% of those who earn $30k or less are smartphone dependent, meaning that they have a smartphone but not broadband internet at home. Since changes to reimbursement are happening all the time, it’s best to go to a site such at the Center for Connected Health Policy to find out what’s happening in your state.
American Well
MARCH 5, 2018
In fact, in 2016, 21% of those who earn $30k or less are smartphone dependent, meaning that they have a smartphone but not broadband internet at home. Since changes to reimbursement are happening all the time, it’s best to go to a site such at the Center for Connected Health Policy to find out what’s happening in your state.
care innovations
OCTOBER 24, 2018
At the recently concluded Connected Health Conference in Boston, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a keynote speech expressing his agency’s dedication to expanding federal funding for key telehealth initiatives, along with a few new proposals for accomplishing them.
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