Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. “H” is for hand-washing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the report’s discussion, KFF recognizes that this year’s study, the 22nd annual, was fielded in the unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic. Job losses in the public health crisis have resulted in millions of American workers and families losing health benefits.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

News from Capitol Hill In a blog post, HHS Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Micky Tripathi said behavior and not technology “is far and away the biggest impediment to progress” when it comes to information blocking.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 28, 2020

COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extended Until October: HHS Declared The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended until October of this year as announced by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II on July 25, … Read more.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2020

healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many flaws in the U.S.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 28, 2020

COVID Public Health Emergency Extended Until October: Official HHS Announcement On July 25, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the public health emergency (PHE) caused by COVID-19. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human … Read more.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 28, 2020

COVID Public Health Emergency Extended Until October: Official HHS Announcement On July 25, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the public health emergency (PHE) caused by COVID-19. Azar II, Secretary of Health and Human … Read more.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. And this year’s Oscar winner for leading actor, Anthony Hopkins, played The Father, who with his family is dealing with dementia.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

my essay published this week in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. But medical distancing became a corollary life-flow of the physical version, and for our collective health and well-being, it hasn’t been good for our health in ways beyond keeping our exposure to the virus at bay. Medical distancing?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is preparing to eliminate the majority (74) of the temporary telehealth CPT codes created during the pandemic once the public health emergency (PHE) ends. appeared first on TBH Institute Blog. … Read more. The post 74 Temporary Telehealth CPT Codes to be Eliminated?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. . “This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2021

Here’s your link to “Housing Is Key To Health” in the Medecision Liberation blog. The post Housing as Prescription for Health/Care – in Medecision Liberation appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. It’s brilliant.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

In the coronavirus quarantine era, millions of Americans have been staying home to flatten the curve, and it’s been working from the evidence-based, public health standpoint. But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

Downtime and a long-overdue break beckon for me and my ever-loving mate, so this post is your week-long read until I return to the Health Populi blog on 22nd August. And remember… love is the ultimate driver of health. The post Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2022

To mark this Earth Day 2022, I’ve written a brief primer on ESG for the health care community published today in the Medecision Liberate Health blog. Here in Health Populi , I’ll give you a few highlights with graphics you won’t see in that essay to illustrate some key points. Real estate, eg.,

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The post 3 Things You Need to Know Now: Public Health Emergency to End; ATA2023 Telehealth Expo; Using RPM to Address Quintuple Aim appeared first on Clear Arch Health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

“Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Clear Arch Health

JULY 5, 2023

Online Search Email from Clear Arch Health Webinar Referral Conference/Trade Show Social Media Other Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Δ Δ The post Remote Patient Monitoring After the Public Health Emergency (webinar) appeared first on Clear Arch Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2020

Over 61,000 health care jobs were lost in March 2020; 459,000 jobs in leisure and hospitality were lost, followed by 52,000 workers in professional and business services and 46,00+ in retail trade, among other categories.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 20, 2020

HIPAA Compliant Video Chat Basics: Requirements for HIPAA after COVID Although the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has extended the public health emergency until October, telehealth providers need to look at what’s next. Once the public health emergency … Read more.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

a situation that was already challenging for millions of American families before the public health crisis emerged. To provide funding for federal research and programs that address food/nutrition security impacted by COVID-19 and to prevent adverse outcomes in future public health emergencies. month or $99 a year.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Scanning through the collection of blog posts from April and May, the obvious has finally occurred. Consider these six blog posts from April and May 2022. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

Move care to the home via telehealth, enabled through net-neutral broadband, can help if we treat connectivity as a social determinant/public utility the way public health looks at clean air and clean water. Consumers who use more primary care can lower healthcare costs, as this blog in Health Affairs pointed out this week.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year-end/New Year 2022 post on my Health Populi blog will weave together many of the key findings from these consumer health/care reports that are most resonating with me and the work I’m doing…. We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2022

I’ll pivot here to the fact that Walmart, Kroger, and other grocery and discount chains are also bolstering their healthcare and wellness footprints in the retail health ecosystem, delivering more than prescription drugs through the pharmacy. That is, virtually every country. For the U.S.,

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Mend

APRIL 4, 2023

In part 2 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary Medicare changes for telehealth lasting until the end of 2024. As we head closer to the public health emergency (PHE) end date of May 11, 2023, providers must prepare for changes. As the PHE ends, it’s essential to know what is changing so you can prepare.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 14, 2020

Reducing the need for physical waiting rooms will ultimately reduce the risk of disease transmission to both frontline workers and patients, which can have great implications on public health. The post Healthcare Reimagined: Creating a Better Remote Care Experience appeared first on Cisco Blogs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 7, 2021

The coauthors argue that these groups could be disproportionately harmed if biased mobility data is used to allocate public health resources. This SafeGraph data use? “ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employs it to identify health systems nearing capacity and to guide the agency’s public health communications strategy.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For health care in the U.S. Bart covered many other ideas, but in the interest of attention spans for blog-reading, let me round out my takeaways with Bart’s policy recommendations summarized in these seven principles. Open Source as a True North underpins the recommendations overall.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In advance of a session I’m shepherding at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in Las Vegas, I developed scenarios about health care in 2030 asking who “we” will be then as patient-plan members?

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

In part 1 of our blog series, Mend reviews the permanent Medicare changes to the Telehealth policy. The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. The post The End Of The Public Health Emergency Part 1 – Permanent Medicare Changes and Their Effects appeared first on Mend.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Little did I know, way back in the 1992 days of our collegial work relationship and budding friendship, that Ben would one day play with me in my sandbox of public health and social determinants. We met up last week to discuss his work with the LBHF and the Borough’s Health and Wellbeing Council (HWC).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 8, 2020

Telemedicine Fraud Increases Access to telehealth has grown rapidly since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The post Telemedicine Fraud appeared first on TBH Institute Blog. As access to telehealth has increased, so has telemedicine fraud. Telemedicine fraud is discussed below.

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Mend

APRIL 12, 2023

In part 3 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary changes that will end on May 11, 2023. The post The End Of The Public Health Emergency Part 3 – Temporary Changes Until The End appeared first on Mend. As the PHE ends, it’s important to know what is changing so you can prepare. This is not legal advice.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 24, 2023

With the public health emergency scheduled to expire, the DEA has proposed rules that put patients at risk of “not getting critical, clinically appropriate medications, which in turn puts their lives at risk,” said Dr. Joseph Kvedar.

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