Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government. Definitely.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy. As such, every company is a health/care company, regardless of industry.

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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. They help identifies the policy topics that should be addressed to facilitate the widespread adoption of telehealth for states.

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Health Populi

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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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Families USA is “the voice for health care consumers,” so advocates on behalf of patients and caregivers. “Our health system is failing us,” the report’s summary asserts in its first sentence.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2018

In the future when you think about “mobile” and “health,” consider adding this definition to your personal/professional dictionary. The unthinkable question is: do we have five generations to simply wait for this to happen?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cost concerns are playing into peoples’ perspectives on health care reform proposals, with a majority of survey respondents saying they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate that would support expanding private health insurance reforms versus scrapping commercial insurance for a Medicare for All proposal. health care system model.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The definition of quality here includes four specific pillars. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company. Patient privacy. Data quality.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

To expand payment reforms rewarding health care providers accountable for continuity of care (and outcomes). Embracing and embedding social services by expanding our definition of health and well-being.

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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). 1/11/18: Introduced and referred to Public Health and Human Services Committee. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. Mississippi.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This round of updates revealed that while each state’s laws, regulations and Medicaid program policies continue to vary, some progress has been made, with the addition of two state Medicaid programs providing reimbursement for store-and-forward. CCHP is a program of the Public Health Institute.

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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. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

Gates: I definitely think there are going to be things that are permanently changed. Or are we in a new normal, and are there things that we should expect to be permanently changed? No one really knows when things will feel normal again. But be prepared for some permanent changes, including to your psyche.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The pandemic has put health care top-of-mind for health citizens the world over. Countries with the fewest proportion of residents looking for major health reforms are Australia, Taiwan, Belgium, Singapore, where at most 1 in 3 people are keen on big health policy changes. public health sector.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

“How should we define ‘health?'” The context for the question was that the 1948 World Health Organization definition of health — that health is, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”– was not so useful in the 21st century.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2022

In his work at Howard University and in Baltimore in the public health department, he learned to connect families with services they needed beyond medical care, for housing, community development, education, transportation — all, in his words, “pieces of the puzzle that go into what makes people healthy.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Pew Trusts recently discussed prospects for the FDA to regulate AI in health care. The definition the Pew team set out was that AI “refers to the ability of a machine to perform a task that mimics human behavior, including problem-solving and learning.”.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

This holds true for health care access, burdens of chronic disease, health literacy, and by definition access to the social determinants of health the bolster well-being. Oh, and legislation that once and for all realizes that guns are a public health threat at least as much as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and opioid addiction.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. And the energy to cast votes is a signal sparking Americans recognizing the importance of health citizenship.

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Health Populi

MARCH 6, 2025

The call-out by DOGE-head Elon Musk that “Social Security is a Ponzi scheme” made some seniors’ heads go on fire and was a definitely signal that AARP is raising. health citizens gain greater clarity and insights into these much-beloved public policies. Another Ipsos poll found that older U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2021

The rich are “definitely” getting richer, Civic Science calls out, finding that nearly 50% of people earning over $100K a year are financially better off now than before the COVID-19 pandemic… and on the other hand, 37% of people earning under $50K a year have been made financially worse off than before the public health crisis.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

But the data indicates it will have to be over 50% for the general public and over 75% for that younger generation of Americans.” ” In the spirit of mutualism, community, and public health — and following sound and trustworthy science — people will come.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. Nonetheless, VP Schinas enthused, “Never before in the history of the EU are we able to do so much in the area of public health,” he explained. political climate.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

On the topic of weight loss and consumer engagement in self-care and health at home, we applaud the launch of Tufts’ Food Is Medicine Institute’s National Network of Excellence in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente and other partners (shown in the graphic here). . The supply side is responding in kind.

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