The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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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

MAY 1, 2019

public health — uniquely American versus the rest of the developed world. The growth of public sector incentives in Medicare for social supports, and growth of value-based payment in commercial plans, are forces nudging health care providers toward bundling SDoH services into targeted programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes.

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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

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will deliver regular health checks and provide greater access to professional help while also giving incentives to further encourage patients to self-manage their own conditions at home. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2024

Telstra, NTT contracted for major ICT upgrade in NSW health facilities eHealth NSW disclosed that telecommunications companies Telstra and NTT were tapped to upgrade the wired and wireless networking infrastructure of more than 1,100 public health facilities across New South Wales.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve seen more financial and money-focused media bringing health care cost stories under their mastheads. So have investment banks, ratings agencies, and large financial services companies, as the pandemic has cast every industry’s eyes to public health and health spending.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2024

The American Telemedicine Association and ATA Action in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks to preserve pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities that it says are responsible for improving access to healthcare across the U.S. Permit access virtual cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. After mental health and diabetes, heart apps rank as the third largest categories for medical apps on the market in 2017.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

McKinsey’s report models outpatient and office visits that can be virtually enabled for patients covered by both commercial and public sector health plans (Medicare and Medicaid). 35% of home health services, and. Most providers also reported they were more comfortable using telehealth post-COVID.

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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. This week, the U.S. This is essentially a five-month extension for telehealth in the U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With the right legal and policy backdrop, digital health tools will play a bigger and bigger role in healthcare. The Connected Health Initiative is continually looking for ways to ensure that patients and providers can use the right digital tools for the job.

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Mend

MARCH 27, 2023

In part 1 of our blog series, Mend reviews the permanent Medicare changes to the Telehealth policy. The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) has been in place for three years. This has had myriad effects on Telehealth policies as well as how providers deliver digital care.

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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

MAY 9, 2024

Healthcare providers will be assisted by the Australian Digital Health Agency in meeting this new requirement. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Patient Access Rural and underserved communities Telehealth Workflow Care Process

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Mend

APRIL 4, 2023

In part 2 of our blog series, Mend reviews the temporary Medicare changes for telehealth lasting until the end of 2024. As we head closer to the public health emergency (PHE) end date of May 11, 2023, providers must prepare for changes. This change meant that patients could receive care from providers in different areas.

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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

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. The rapid upscaling of virtual care capacity and the mainstreaming of telehealth have given rise to new digital health tools.

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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. cartons of cigarettes costs in the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Medicare currently doesn't reimburse federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or rural health centers (RHCs) for RPM. Then COVID-19 hit.

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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. The company’s offering is announced amidst the unwinding of the public health emergency, which had allowed for the continuous enrollment of members.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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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. They will adopt workflows and technologies that recognize the profound influence of culture, values, and lived experiences on health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2024

Part of designing for improved health system engagement and experience is meeting people where they are, and in 2024 that means omni-channel the way we live “now” in retail, financial services, and other aspects of daily life. Embracing workforce well-being — in and outside of health 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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Mend

APRIL 12, 2023

As we near the PHE ending on May 11, 2023, providers must know which Medicare changes were only temporary and which are now permanent. The End Of The PHE Part 1 – Permanent Medicare Changes and Their Effects The End Of The PHE Part 2 – Temporary Medicare Changes and Their Effects What Ends Immediately with the PHE?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Connected Health Initiative

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Promise of Digital Health Exists, Connected Health Initiative Urges Congress to Achieve Potential January 31, 2023—Today, ACT | The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) released its priorities for the 118 th Congress. Number of U.S. Full details of CHI congressional priorities can be read here.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

A Surge in Virtual Health Overnight, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the healthcare system, leading to widespread adoption of virtual care services by patients and clinicians. OpenLoop’s network of 6000+ certified clinicians spans all 50 states, offers 30+ digital health specialties and speaks 15 different languages.

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