Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

in September 2018. Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research. To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3%

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JULY 3, 2018

May this bring you joy and positive vibes on Independence Day 2018. Lady Liberty beckons to welcome the tired, the weary, and the ambitious to America in this Shinola video, made in my hometown Detroit.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 24, 2019

Thanks to a quieter 2018 on the health policy front, the ACA exchanges are set for a more stable year in 2019.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). South Central Legislative Regulatory Update – October 2018.

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APRIL 14, 2020

In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. Gallup polled over 20,000 U.S.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. GDP, in 2018.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 31, 2018

The following attachment is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – August 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This year is shaping up to be an interesting one for health policy, and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has outlined its priorities for the next several months. Focus areas for 2018 include continued work on interoperability and cybersecurity.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The paper, Health Insurance Affordability Concerns and health Care Avoidance Among US Adults Approaching Retirement , explored the perspectives of 1,028 US adults between 50 and 64 years of age between November 2018 and March 2019.

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APRIL 29, 2018

Governor Mark Leavitt, who held the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bush, offered this advice at the recent Liberation 2018 conference hosted by Medecision. Part 2: Design to Liberate Healthcare , published 19 April, 2018.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college. did not save for old age.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. Effective January 1, 2018, Medicare began reimbursing providers for RPM services billed under CPT code 99091. Effective January 1, 2018, the GT modifer will no longer be needed on professional claims for telehealth services. National Level.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Health politics shapes what choices, if any, people have as health consumers — and we’re now just under twelve months until the 2020 Presidential election, which will certainly play out as a health care election in real time as the 2018 Midterms were and 2019 states polls, as well.

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JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. This was the highest proportion APA polled since 2018 when 46% of black adults reported discrimination was a significant stressor. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In June 2020, 4 in 5 Americans felt that the coronavirus pandemic was a significant source of stress.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The second chart presents these data, published in this week’s Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll, dated late Summer 2018. The KFF survey learned that overall 85% of Americans are worried about paying more for health coverage, and 60% are worried about losing that coverage.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Chairman Powell spoke about health care costs with Yahoo Finance in 2018: “It’s no secret: It’s been true for a long time that with our uniquely expensive healthcare delivery system and the aging of our population, we’ve been on an unsustainable fiscal path for a long time.”

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2019

The mainstreaming of SDoH speaks to the awareness that health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn and shop… beyond the health”care” system of hospitals, doctors’ offices, and prescription drug dispensaries. adults between 18 and 64 years of age in December 2018.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 9, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March & April 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

voters will be motivated to express their political will for health as so many voters did in the 2018 mid-term elections when folks felt the very real threat of losing health insurance coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act. Please check out the post here , and let me know your thoughts.

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MARCH 21, 2019

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – February 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 5, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – March 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 14, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – May 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.

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APRIL 17, 2023

and Seeing is Believing – Inside the World’s Biggest Hospital), among other themes.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 29, 2018

The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – June 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth. LEGISLATION.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann Mond Johnson assumed the helm of CEO of ATA in 2018, and she’s issued a call-to-action across the health/care ecosystem for a delivery system upgrade. “ATA” is the new three-letter acronym for the American Telemedicine Association, meeting today through Tuesday at the Convention Center in New Orleans.

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JUNE 7, 2018

High Spending Growth Rates For Key Diseases In 2000-14 Were Driven By Technology And Demographic Factors , a June 2018 Health Affairs article, analyzed this data.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Today I benefited from listening to Timothy Jost, professor emeritus of healthcare law at Washington and Lee University, and Stephanie Armour, health policy reporter at The Wall Street Journal. The session was sponsored by the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That wand has begun to initiate its magic in the physician community, based on a wonderful essay in JAMA published 20 December 2018 titled, Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age: Determining the Source Code for Nurture.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

The bar chart shows that PhRMA (the advocacy group for the pharmaceutical industry), Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association (representing physicians) were four of the ten highest spending lobbyers in 2018.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Through the eyes of the American patient, now health consumer, affordability continues to rank ahead of quality or access for health care based on TransAmerica’s research into healthcare consumers in a time of uncertainty.

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MARCH 1, 2018

To more effectively help patients manage diabetes , CentraForce Health used geospatial mapping of SBDoH data to develop deeper insights into peoples’ health needs and behaviors — such as eating fast food in the past 30 days, sufficient time to eat healthy food, and tendency to follow a doctor’s recommendations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2019

In the spring of 2018, the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) published its update of the State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. One of the most comprehensive reports available on the issues involved with U.S. telehealth reimbursement of all … Read more.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

For further information on loneliness in the UK, here was the New York Times’ take on the appointment of the Minister for Loneliness published in January 2018. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Maneesh snapped this photo of us as we were about to say so long, for now, in Covent Garden.

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MARCH 16, 2021

This is the BA divide in longevity: “For people with and without a BA, racial divides narrowed by 70% between 1990 and 2018, while educational divides more than doubled for both Black and White people,” Case and Deaton conclude. They term that BA degree a “life expectancy premium.”

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MAY 4, 2023

IQVIA’s national prescription data revealed that prescriptions for mental health drugs grew 8% since 2019 — with a 33% rise among girls under 19. There is another data point in the study on women’s health and prescriptions — for ADHD drugs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the spring of 2018, the Center for Connected Health Policy published its update of the State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. One of the most comprehensive reports available on the issues involved with U.S. telehealth reimbursement of all types, the … Read more.

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