Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley put the deal together , with Morgan having led ONEM’s acquisition of Iora Health last year. Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. bn and MGM Studios for $8.5

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As Deeptha Khanna, Philips’ Chief Business Leader for Personal Health, said in the company’s virtual press conference, “We have [also] witnessed the reinvention of our homes as a core element of the healthcare pathway, with telehealth, virtual and remote care technologies as the key drivers for change during COVID-19.

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Digital Health Public Health Connected Health Telehealth 361

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What continues to be an important value proposition with wearable tech in health care is the physician-prescriber relationship to which, clearly, most patients subscribe.

Health Data 411

Health Data EHR Digital Health Health Technology 411

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. government passed the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2022, which allows Medicare patients access to telehealth services, including audio-only services, through 2024. For example, the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication. On the supply side, BDO surveyed 100 C-level leaders across the health care provider landscape in January 2021 to assess the executives’ views on digital health technology infrastructure and tools nearly one year into the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

"Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders.

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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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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I recently collaborated with HealthMine on a survey looking into Medicare Advantage members’ views of health and digital technology. On the demand-patient side, and especially for older people, there’s clearly a lack of awareness of this care platform being available when it is.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2024

potential health plan coverage changes – particularly for those covered by Medicaid and Medicare; and rising healthcare costs, on top of inflation. Equity in healthcare must also take center stage to improve the overall patient experience. Shaji Nair, CEO at Friska.AI

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Mental health Health IT Primary Care Patient Experience 89

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

Medicare Advantage (MA) will likely see expanded backing, further solidifying its role as a cornerstone of value-based care. Healthcare systems will prioritize responsive workflows and shared decision-making, ensuring every patient feels seen, respected, and engaged.

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Health IT Primary Care Mental health Patient Experience 80

Health Populi

JULY 20, 2022

.” I’ve bold-faced the last phrase here because it speaks to empathy and the human touch people are seeking — as they continue to undergo their own personal brands of digital transformation — such as using apps for health management, like refilling prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 3, 2025

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Solace, the digital health platform that connects patients with expert health advocates, has closed a $60 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2022, Solace was built to fix a broken system and improve health outcomes by prioritizing humans at the center of healthcare. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new project in the Australian state of Victoria aims to improve the telehealth capabilities of mental health and palliative care services. million) funding from the federal government-backed Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) for its Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities project. million ($1.5 ON THE RECORD.

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Mental health Telehealth Patient Experience Medicare 166

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Confronting and addressing access and health equity. Health access is a key factor for patient experience from appointment scheduling in a timely manner to “feeling” embraced by the health system in terms of health equity and access to contemporary protocols.

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Pharmaceuticals Patient Experience Mental health Digital Health 177

Digital Health Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Age-related health issues and associated costs (chronic conditions such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, cancers, obesity, etc.) This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. The three aims are: 1.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Medicare Healthcare Improvement 56

Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another study I cite in the book from Market Strategies found that of people already purchasing products on Amazon, over one-half would trust Amazon for health care related products or services, and 39% would be willing to use the Amazon platform for prescription drugs instead of a retail pharmacy or online PBM channel.

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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 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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Telehealth Mental health Public Health Medicare 315

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the urgent need to identify more efficient and lower-cost health care delivery models, we look to growing evidence for digital health technologies that support the Hospital at Home (HaH) model, considered in a new review article published in late February in npj Digital Medicine, The hospital at home in the USA: current status and future prospects. (..)

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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). cartons of cigarettes costs in the U.S. Reducing stress.

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Digital Health Medicare Public Health Primary Care 180

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 195

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

I discussed Costco’s approach to the pharmacy last month in Health Populi, asking the question, “What if Costco designed the prescription drug sales model?” government would have saved $2.6 billion in 2018.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Primary Care Telehealth 218

Digital Health Global

MARCH 8, 2023

The company’s offering is announced amidst the unwinding of the public health emergency, which had allowed for the continuous enrollment of members. Care Angel offers well-timed, personalized conversations that support health insurers’ cost-containment, revenue retention, and labor-shortage mitigation efforts.

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Digital Health Public Health HIPAA Leadership 88

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jason said, “Too many (digital health) solutions focus on visualizing the raw data as the main benefit. ” We have a concept for smart homes in our work and experience, and we surely continue to evolve our concepts of useful, evidence-based digital health tools. — now enable.

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Medical Technology Digital Health Telehealth Connected Health 177

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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Telehealth Telemedicine FHIR Medicare 227

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The previous article in this series explained some of the ways payers, providers, and digital health companies demonstrate that they have made a positive difference in their patients’ lives. The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies.

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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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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Positioned at the forefront of telebehavioral healthcare, Telemynd takes a “people-first” approach to digital health with dedicated care teams focused on connecting individuals with licensed therapists and psychiatrists who are uniquely qualified to support them. UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to improving healthcare for all.

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Mental health Patient Experience Digital Health Medicare 88

Digital Health Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Age-related health issues and associated costs (chronic conditions such as hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, cancers, obesity, etc.) This increased cost burden is depleting the Medicare funding which will eventually go bankrupt. There will be difficulty in funding the tax-funded Medicare program. The three aims are: 1.

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Digital Health Patient Experience Medicare Healthcare Improvement 40

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The at-home collection kidney health test aims to lower lifetime costs associated with Chronic Kidney Disease and diabetes by increasing accessibility to testing and satisfying the 2024 KED HEDIS measure. Early detection of kidney disease may reduce Medicare costs associated with CKD by 74% or $63.2

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Remote care Medicare Patient Experience Digital Health 88

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. That’s down from 34% last year.

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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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Telehealth Digital Health EHR Medical Technology 207