Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure. No, it’s not from the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care?

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Studies show that remote monitoring services and wearable health technology can reduce care costs for patients and the healthcare system while improving patient outcomes and engagement. This type of care often involves a wearable health device and allows health providers to better understand patients’ needs for their healthcare.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. Those often lead to follow-up care, so we may not be seeing any difference between in-person and telehealth for follow up to specialists, etc.,” ” she added.

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Digital Health Wire

JUNE 25, 2023

Medicare Advantage plans could be on track to reach over $75B in overpayments this year – nearly 3x prior estimates – causing researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics to issue a pressing call for policy reform. Favorable selection at its finest.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

The exuberance among Black older people to use telehealth in the future is undeniable, and a useful statistic to keep in mind when planning for the future of Medicare coupled with breaking down access barriers to care and promoting greater health equity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

” In 2018, 45% of Americans between 19 and 64 years of age were under-insured, facing relatively flat wage growth coupled with triple-digit health care cost increases over more than a decade. The rationale for the project is that, “America’s families are hurting from high-cost, low-quality care.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

the supply side of care providers, the demand side of patients, consumers, and health citizens all, and the technology developers who have fast met the pandemic need for digital health front doors, all wonder: what aspects of virtual care will persist post-pandemic? Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S., Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits?

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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. billion in 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here’s a link to the 30-minute conversation, where Marc combed through the over 500 endnotes from HealthConsuming ‘s appendix to explore the patient as the new health care payor, the Amazon prime-ing of people, and prospects for social determinants of health to bolster medicines “beyond the pill.”.

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care innovations

AUGUST 21, 2018

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. Asia and Europe.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

The growth of venture capital and venture capital -backed, early-stage companies (startups) deserves the attention of patients and policy makers because advancements in medicine are no longer exclusively born from providers within the delivery system and increasingly from innovators outside of it.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

Jones , published in the Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal (June 2024), researchers demonstrated how cellular-enabled RPM devices, supported by a 24/7 nurse call center, can effectively monitor pregnant women with hypertension, leading to reduced stress levels, high patient satisfaction, and fewer hospitalizations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Additionally, there is a focus on improving the work environment and well-being of health professionals to help reduce burnout and increase retention. To ensure quality care for patients, health systems are exploring new solutions and innovations, such as the use of digital health records and other health information technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? Specifically, there is a two-year extension of Medicare telehealth services that began in the early coronavirus era in 2020. We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). Life-Years?

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2019

. “There is mounting evidence that some of these [SDoH] initiatives are associated with improved health outcomes and reduced health care utilization,” a report from Deloitte asserted in a new report on social determinants of health published this week.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Healthcare is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation through a digital health revolution do you want to be at the epicenter of it? NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care. Tableau, ggplot).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hospitals will negotiate hard with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare Advantage plans to be paid on a per month basis to ensure there is a continuous revenue stream, moving away totally from a fee-for-service agreement. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We can expect value-based contracting in 2023 to embed health equity incentives, such as this contract struck between Independence Blue Cross and Jefferson Health to address health for residents of Philadelphia including the Accelerate Health Equity initiative. That’s the upside and it’s promising and exciting.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

and Medicare enrollees with heart failure have the highest readmission rate of any condition. So Congress: this is the real world for patients, now consumers spending more out of pocket for their health care, seeking greater engagement in their medical care, ongoing well-being, and longevity. health citizens, Right Here, Right Now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

" Similarly, Meghan O'Toole, health policy advisor for Sen. She predicted that Biden's administration will support the idea that broadband infrastructure alone will not be enough for parity in digital health. But the next steps, he said, will be safeguarding access to that care. versus beyond."

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2018

California, home to start-ups, mature tech platform companies (like Apple, Facebook and Google), and countless digital health developers, is in a particularly strategic place to fight the FCC and, now, the Department of Justice. Nearly two dozen other states are looking to write net neutrality laws following Governor Brown’s example.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. As noted by the publication Pitchbook and CB Insights , venture capital funding in the digital health space totaled $7.5

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since the CVS+Aetna announcement last December, the Kaiser Family Foundation ran some numbers on how the merged organization could impact Medicare — a key payor for both health insurance and prescription drugs under Part D.

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Health Populi

APRIL 2, 2021

adults with respect to peoples’ ability to afford quality health care. By age, younger Non-White adults have a harder time paying for health care — not a surprise as older Americans 65 and over can access Medicare. seniors when it comes to affording quality health care. Health care spending for U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consumers who DIY health and self-care are leveraging technology in greater numbers Weve seen a strong uptake of wearable technologies, especially smartwatches with multiple sensors for health and well-being (e.g., AARP has been watching the uptick of people 50 years of age and older leveraging digital health innovations.

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