Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

live under a broadband monopoly, explicitly pointing to Comcast as a prime example of an obstructive force in building out broadband to the last mile and citizen’s home. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S. is the monopoly power of ISPs: ILSR gauges that 83 million people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Here’s a recent example of health and wellness embedded in a connected car from Hyundai, one of many auto manufacturers re-imagining health as a benefit of driving in a car.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In addition to the regional TRCs, the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center and the Center for Connected Health Policy evaluate different types of telehealth technology and track telehealth-related policy, respectively. Each regional TRC has information specifically tailored to the needs of the region.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Chris Gibbons, founder and CEO of The Greystone Group, during the HIMSS session – which is now on-demand and explores how providers and federal, state and local policymakers are changing the way they think about the internet of things and connected health tools as they focus on population health management.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

TIME magazine’s coverage of how CES featured telehealth covered four stories including Abbott’s Neurosphere, Jasper Health’s oncology platform, EarlySense InSight at Home, and BioIntelliSense biosticker and biobutton devices for remote patient monitoring. 55 percent of U.S. Nearly one-half of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: COVID-19 was, among other phenomena, a wake-up call to the weaknesses and deficiencies of the U.S. health care system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has long advocated that healthcare and a healthy citizenry tie to a nation’s economic health. We must reach across our individual siloes, bubbles, and objectives to remember that we are all, really, part of a public health mission.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic. billion in 2018.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. But pent-up demand remains for mental health services which could be made further accessible. Younger people are more likely to demand and be comfortable with virtual care platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Existing strategies states can use to integrate telehealth and other virtual health care services into value-based health care models. Examples of states that have used waivers under the Medicaid program to test expanded access to telehealth. healthcare system." That legislation has been referred to committee. at the time.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2023

The authors also point to implanted technologies such as pacemakers and defibrillators for heart patients can keep patients connected with cardiologists and other health care providers monitoring conditions virtually — “separating data collection from the visit itself,” the essay explains.

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Health Populi

MARCH 31, 2020

Gaming is up: Twitch and YouTube Gaming, for example, are benefiting from rising demand for online gaming, and Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus are gaining new adopters. Here’s the rationale from our most-trusted public health leaders: Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, and Dr. Adams. Sling TV, YouTube TV). Stay well and stay home!

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s important to walk beyond the digital health aisles to think outside of the strictly-healthcare box to deal with peoples’ well-being factors adjacent to the purely medical.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

Based on current COVID-19 recovery trends, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the US federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers will end on May 11, 2023. For a comprehensive overview, visit the Public Health Emergency Roadmap fact sheet.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, Boomers would be less likely than younger patients to take a telehealth appointment if it was available sooner than an in-person visit — signaling, JLL says, that older people may have stronger ties to medical providers than younger patients. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Connectivity as a social determinant of health. Collaboration can help insure as well as assure health. These trends began to take hold in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. history, as these images show.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Using food and tech as medicine can help people avoid going on medications like statins and others for heart health. An important example of this self-care approach is the evidence-based Ornish food regimen which is reimbursed by Medicare (as a form of cardiac rehabilitation). Quitting smoking.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2023

” In public health context, some 40 mm people in the U.S. I myself am buoyed and inspired by the H2FA mission and the three examples I’ve shared with you here on Health Populi. have movement disorders preventing them from everyday tasking. This year, I was particularly inspired by HAPTA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2020

The partnership aims to improve health outcomes and save costs by ensuring that clients maximise their investment in the Visionable platform and helping them to design the most effective ways of working. THE LARGER CONTEXT. The adoption of telehealth solutions was one of the key healthtech trends of 2019.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Value-based care will be a big topic at AHIP 2024 with examples and case studies shared. Lowering costs and bolstering value for payers….including including consumers. We are all payers now, whether employers, government plans, unions and collectives, or patients-as-payers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We cannot expect Technology itself to be a panacea to this national tragedy that public policies must help solve in terms of underlying drivers of health and well-being. But there are technology innovations that can help people deal with addiction through, for example, digital therapeutic solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to combat the coronavirus crisis. "And it already has."

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2021

Another one-third of health executives would want to partner with health technology companies (36% thinking: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce for example) for their digital transformations, as well as more traditional health IT and informatics companies (for example, Epic, Cerner, or Allscripts).

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

We have a “responsibility to imagine unintended consequences,” Sara believes, and in 2018 we are not at a loss for examples — like autonomous cars as a risk factor for accidents and possibly mortality. Her audacious, crucial goal: to use human centered design to disrupt inter-generational cycles of poverty and disempowerment.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job. Examples include the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2021 (H.R. The post CHI POV: Medicare Coverage and Digital Health first appeared on Connected Health Initiative.

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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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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Penny Mohr from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was the last to speak in the plenary with her presentation on, “Post-pandemic Digital Health: A Perspective From the Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute.” Mohr called engagement the “hallmark” of PCORI research and discussed examples of what they’re looking for.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leslie Morland continued to push the event pass the starting line with her plenary talk, Virtual Mental Health Care in the Veterans Health Administration: An Immediate Response to COVID-19 , which was all the more pertinent since it was Veteran’s Day.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Increases in kept appointments are just one example. Reeya Patel, Vice President of Healthcare Insights at Azalea Health, points out that a televisit can document that a follow-up appointment has been scheduled, a request for a medication took place, or a referral to a specialist has occurred, all for billing purposes.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. Examples of telemedicine could be video consults, phone consults, or patient-provider communication through text messages or a patient portal.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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