Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On February 4 th , 2020, in a hospital in northern California, the first known inpatient diagnosed with COVID-19 died. On March 11 th , the World Health Organization called the growing prevalence of the coronavirus a “pandemic.”. On May 25 th , George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 14, 2020

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). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MARCH 4, 2020

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). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 10, 2020

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). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

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). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 10, 2020

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). Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

HRSA’s 8 bureaus and offices (Ryan White, Maternal and child health, rural health policy, healthcare systems, etc.) In 2019, Health Centers across the nation served 30 million patients. The post SEARCH 2020 – Day Two appeared first on LearnTelehealth. offer many services in several healthcare arenas.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: N0w to the question at-hand for the week: can consumer-facing technologies help us bolster our health and well-being and — Holy Grail time — reverse the U.S. Inf act, heart health is table-stakes for much of wearable technology in 2023. public and personal health?

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Note the timing of this publication: the authors submitted the manuscript to Nature on 19th March 2020… just eight days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The “super social” adjective was first coined by Dr.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. If pre-COVID era regulations that were dismissed in the pandemic revert back, Dowling is concerned the progress made for telehealth in 2020 will slow or return to pre-pandemic levels of uptake.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

In Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care , Kyruus answers this question based on an online survey of 1,000 patients 18 years of age and older, conducted in May 2020. Each of these health consumers had at least one virtual care visit between February and May 2020.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As a best practice, to understand state-specific policies, providers can check the Center for Connected Health Policy State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report. [ii]. It is also recommended to review individual payer websites for any changes in telehealth policies for 2021. ii] [link].

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19. in mid-June 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. But the emergence of the coronavirus in the U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that Chewy, the subscription pet goods company, launched a telehealth service for pets in October 2020 — another tech-trend in the growing pet economy, of which you can read more in Health Populi here.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He knew the power of integrating mental health in the context of overall health, and the role of socioeconomic factors and adverse childhood events both academically and first-hand as a child barely surviving whooping cough.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? The top-line in the report, and the bottom-line for health citizens, was that 38% of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: From the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, one thing became clear: that people living in households without connectivity were unable to work from home if they had a job that supported virtual work, attend school from home, or connect to loved ones, friends, and communities from home.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Delivering health care during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic proved to both patients and their clinicians that virtual care was not only a viable channel for care, but very often a preferable “place” to collaborate for treatment.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Spending on mental health apps, in particular, spiked up in the COVID-19 pandemic reaching at least $500 million according to Deloitte’s analysis.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2020

Stay connected to the industry by following vendor blogs and sites like Center for Connected Health Policy or by getting active with American Telemedicine Association. How To Become a Telemedicine Provider was first posted on March 30, 2020 at 9:38 am. Blazing the Telemedicine Trail. DOWNLOAD EBOOK.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

Five years later in 2021, three physicians from UCSF wrote about the importance of focusing on digital health equity, one slide of the health equity challenge, in JAMA — calling out the fact that, “health care is on the cusp of a digital transformation that could harm health equity or improve it.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs. Reflecting on my many conversations during CES last week, I’m evolving the concept to our homes morphing into health delivery platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. consumers felt in April 2020 about sharing personal data with tech companies and federal agencies. With that in mind, it’s time to re-visit the latest Gartner’s 2020 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2020

The term “deaths of despair” was coined by Anne Case and Angus Deaton in their ground-breaking research which culminated in their March 2020 book, Deaths of Despair. between March and early May 2020. Carrying through this tough math, the unemployment rate rose to nearly 15% as of early May, up from under 4% in January 2020.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For parents, the strain has grown from 2020 into 2021: family responsibilities are a significant source of stress, and relationships are a source of stress. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Those pandemic-era headaches and sleep habit changes have been impacting more younger people than older people in America, shown in the last chart.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

The report on health care systems and providers was released this week: COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs was authored by experts on the front-line of health care delivery, medical education, and health policy. The paper describes the landscape of the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s interesting that Rock Health’s digital health funding line graph echoes the left side of the Economist graph. The pandemic has accelerated funding in digital health tools across many forms, shown in Rock Health’s second chart here on top funded value and clinical propositions.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One gift of the pandemic was a mass recognition of and empathy for mental health – in oneself and in the larger community. More health citizens access therapy via virtual platforms at the start of the COVID-19 era in early 2020, with tele-mental health sustaining use ahead of other conditions for which people seek virtual medical services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

All of these new-new “things” are connected devices, generating personal data that can be scraped for our health profiles. While California will implement a broad consumer-protective privacy law on January 1, 2020, the remainder of the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

That is for the immediate-near term under the fragmented, high-cost health care system that currently challenge American health citizens. Today as Election Day, I recall my post published yesterday here in Health Populi on U.S. voters’ perspectives on health care reform looking toward Election Day 2020.

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