Health Populi

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

” The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has tracked the well-being of member nations for the past six years, taking a broad view on the definition of holistic health — including physical, mental, financial, and social aspects of people living in OECD countries. The first “How’s Life?”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Interestingly, 70% of patients also viewed their clinical notes in 2022, newly-measured by the ONC survey. ” That explanation comes from IDC’s work on digital front doors turbocharged during the pandemic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

map of median broadband speeds and affordability, where the red areas shown locales where speeds routinely fall below the FCC’s base definition of broadband. The result is shown in the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

This is a timely topic, especially now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, removing access to a number of flexibilities designed to improve access to healthcare. Members of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) used these flexibilities to better reach patients, improve the quality of care, and reduce costs for caregivers.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Enter the digital era, forcing a re-definition of what we mean by “infrastructure.” Health care costs consume nearly one in every five dollars of the American economy. This concept informs the current discussion about how we define “infrastructure” moving forward.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile. Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

Public Health 156

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile. Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source.

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

Thank you, IQVIA team, for another rich and insightful annual report on digital health, bringing pragmatism and focus to a health care segment in need of greater clarity and definition.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here, I’m using the word “demand” in the economist’s definition: that is not just sheer “need” but “demand” in terms of a consumer’s willingness-to-pay for a service. The shift to lower cost, more convenient, better designed and friction-less (or less friction-inducing!)

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

COVID-19 Waivers and Administrative Flexibilities: How Health Care Providers and Suppliers are Affected Virtual Supervision During the PHE, CMS temporarily changed the definition of “direct supervision” to allow supervising healthcare professionals to use real-time audio/video technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

See that their home is a one-story design in the connected health neighborhood, a good choice for a couple seeking to age well in their home without stairs. Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of this rigorous study design, AMA used particular definitions for the seven tools the study gauged: remote monitoring for efficiency, remote monitoring and management for improved care, clinical decision support, patient engagement, tele-visits/virtual visits, point of care/workflow enhancement, and consumer access to clinical data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

"We are pleased to support the CONNECT for Health Act as a significant step toward removing outdated barriers to Medicare’s coverage of live audio and video healthcare services for vulnerable populations," said Connected Health Initiative Executive Director Morgan Reed in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

Patients receive a 4G-enabled tablet and connected health devices, including a weight scale, pulse oximeter and blood pressure cuff. "Indeed, patients enrolled in Home Care Connect are 29-107 in age, with 77 being the average age." managing more than 4,000 patients," she added.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

While not every device has compelling clinical evidence, digital health at CES is definitely moving in the right direction in terms of clinical quality and efficacy in areas of heart monitoring, digital therapeutics, and pain, among other conditions. That’s the supply side.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology. Start with the definition of patient access. This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third image, titled “Figure 2” from the Deloitte report, details numerous care delivery models, enablers, and workflows that should be designed based on consumers’ needs and preferences.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JUNE 26, 2018

The Medicaid.gov website provides telemedicine definitions and terms, provider and facility guidelines, reimbursement guidelines, and information about telemedicine Service Provider Agreements (SPA). Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP). For more information, check out the resources below. Medicaid.gov.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. Make no mistake, I am a believer!

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

’ ” An application Programing Interface is a set of protocols and definitions allowing digital services and products to communicate with each other over the Internet. The test was conducted over two weeks with six months of static code analysis. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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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). 1/22/18: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi. TAC 0800-2-17-.1-.25.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, Amazon announced several HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills in April 2019 that will be just the beginning of this fast-growing phenomenon for voice assistants in health care. The post Most Consumers Are Interested in Using a Voice Assistant for Some Type of Health Care appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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mHealth Insight

DECEMBER 2, 2018

the mHealth Summit drew in nearly 4,000 delegates just a few years ago but now (renamed as the Connected Health Conference after merging with the Partners Connected Health Conference – the ‘rival’ conference that operated in this space) draws in just a few hundred delegates.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

For consumers to embrace their health data via smartphone or any other digital delivery channel, people will need to believe the overall experience is trustworthy, secure, and relevant to them based on their values and personal definition of health.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

” COVID-19 “raises our obligation to do more than we ever thought we could, and definitely more than we did before,” Dowling concluded. Health Populi’s Hot Points: At his twitter handle @MichaelJDowling , this leader for the future characterizes himself as “Healthcare Optimist.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.

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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). Provides a definition for telemedicine and allows the required face-to-face encounter for care coordinators to take place over. LEGISLATION.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 15, 2022

For patients who have these devices, especially those with diabetes, monitoring blood glucose excursions and responses to different foods would definitely be helpful, easy, and timely. More benefits of Connected Health Technology of RPM.

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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). Provides a definition for telemedicine and allows the required face-to-face encounter for care coordinators to take place over telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

And this year, Rock Health added in Uber and Lyft, with whom 22% and 16% of consumers would share health data, respectively. We see the continued evolution of health-data ecosystems, as well as the re-definitions of what a “tech company” is vis-a-vis a “health-tech company.”

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

BHM offers services geared toward controlling expenses and integrating the behavioral health opportunities presented by measuring telehealth. An updated version of the fifth edition of the Center for Connected Health Policy’s (CCHP) State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report was released.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

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). Provides a definition for telemedicine and allows the required face-to-face encounter for care coordinators to take place over telemedicine.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The CHRONIC Act, however, addresses a growing interest in the potential of telehealth to reduce health care costs, prevent hospital admissions and emergency room visits regardless of a person’s originating site of care. The CHRONIC Act is definitely a win for telehealth and worth watching through the process of becoming a law.

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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). Provides a definition for telemedicine and allows the required face-to-face encounter for care coordinators to take place over telemedicine.

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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). Provides a definition for telemedicine and allows the required face-to-face encounter for care coordinators to take place over telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association published Health Data Privacy Principles , paying particular attention to consistency in regulations, definitions of consumer health, consumer consent, and legal enforcement. Zyter|TruCare integrated findhelp , a social care network, into the latest release of its Connected Health platform.

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