FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 2, 2021

3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 2, 2023

omnibus, paving way for multiple health policy priorities. Biden signs $1.7T Mon, 01/02/2023 - 22:24.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The article The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Although it took eight days for most of the dust to settle after the 2022 midterm elections, it is now clear that […].

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 18, 2023

A key House panel approved a slew of health policies. Here's a look at 4 of them pminemyer Thu, 05/18/2023 - 14:55

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This poll is published today in a four-page special section devoted to health care policy. The top-line of the section, noted in the title of page A-1, is that 92% of all Americans want changes in the health care system. The gridlock comes at certain flashpoints, USA Today explains.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs , a new paper from the Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics asserts, with recommendations to address the intermediaries who benefit from the way Americans currently pay for medicines. health citizens access to high-value and lifesaving meds.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 3, 2023

By Hari Prasad, founder and CEO, Yosi Health. That’s the key finding of a recent research brief published by Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy under the […] The article Combatting Wasteful Administrative Costs At the Practice Level appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

who follow health policy wonkily always look to the States and Governors for innovation as labs for health policy innovation. We can generally look to California for health care innovations in financing and technology, and the same holds true for dealing with medical debt and fair billing. Those of us in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: I leave time in my frenetic schedule at CES for serendipity to kick in.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

The coolest thing in health policy in the 21st century!! ” Amitabh Chandra gave the opening context-setting talk about the effects of health care cost-sharing on patients-as-consumers. Kavita Patel to assert in the first panel of the day that, “2713 is my favorite number.”

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 25, 2024

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending. |

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 30, 2024

Enforcement and physician education are two keys to limiting health plan upcoding, a costly scheme that exploits the Medicare system, health policy experts told Fierce Healthcare. Health plan upcoding threatens the Medicare system. Here's how policy experts believe the federal government should pursue abuse.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 8, 2020

This system to effectively track and trace COVID is a necessary first step for gradually reopening the economy, the healthcare leaders said in a recent paper issued by the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 1, 2024

to gain his insights on the future of healthcare policy. to gain his insights on the future of healthcare policy. With just a month left until the Nov. 5 presidential election, Fierce Healthcare's Heather Landi spoke with David Shulkin, M.D.,

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute and Markus Bolton, CEO at Graphnet will speak at Rewired 2025.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Erin holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. Her leadership has made her a key voice in healthcare standards and policy.

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute will sit on the data and tech group for the 10 year health plan.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

In summing up the patient-centered interoperability goal, Ardy summarized: “We’ve created the Mint.com of health data.” ” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Many of my beloved and brilliant colleagues are convening this week at HealthDataPalooza and the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, DC.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. “We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2025

Health Populis Hot Points: As a health economist, a major concern for me in looking at a very uncertain payment/reimbursement and health policy future is sustainability of health systems, providers and clinicians, and patients ability to cover the costs of their medical care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

For more on women and health policy in the 2024 election cycle, you can explore the Open Letter on the site of Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress , of which I am one of several hundred signing the Letter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

"The COVID pandemic has clearly demonstrated the need for more robust healthcare preparedness and some fundamental changes in US health policy," the report concluded.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 21, 2025

The former physician-lawmaker was an influential player in congressional health policy during his 20-plus years in the House. The White House has not yet named its next choice for the position after pulling the nomination of Dave Weldon, M.D., last week.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 4, 2023

health policy legislators. New Jersey’s largest academic medical center has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing about 1,700 of its nurses to end a four-month strike. | The labor dispute over pay and staffing held about 1,700 nurses without pay or benefits and drew the attention of top U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As a long-time fan and customer of IKEA, I receive daily Google Alerts about the company, from business finances to design trends. When I read this piece on IKEA’s work on a home designed for people who were homeless , I paid special attention to learn about the concept of trauma-informed design.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

“Before we entrust our care to AI systems and ‘doctor robots,’ we must first commit to identifying bias in datasets and fixing them as much as possible.

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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.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

In the United States, however, there’s been under-investment in these social determinants that closely tie to health. Why has this been the case? Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Kane, AMA's director of economic and health policy research. "Research conducted over the past year illustrated telehealth's role in allowing patients to retain access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic," wrote Carol K.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As my friends Deven McGraw, Chief Regulatory Officer at Ciitizen (whom I profiled here in Health Populi ), and Vince Kuraitis, longtime health strategy guru and author of the blog e-CareManagement.com , characterized this challenge, “The Goldilocks Dilemma” in The Health Care Blog.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In a separate Health Affairs blog, health policy experts noted that Medicaid users have had "less consistent" access to telemedicine. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Despite enjoying bipartisan support, telehealth has yet to see meaningful action from Congress in the COVID-19 era – and many advocates appear to be getting antsy. Alliance for Connected Care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That paragraph imagines how our homes can and should be our health hubs, enabled by connectivity (ensuring net neutrality and fast lines for all), privacy and data security, and universal health care access. That, too, was a prime Dr. Topol moment, wearing his health policy hat: his belief that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

Bolstering the impact of digital health technologies — and particularly remote health monitoring and clinically-prescribed wearable tech — was the late December 2922 health policy news that telehealth provisions would be included in the FY2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Health policy staffers gathered last week at the Capitol for a day of discussing AI policy with members of industry, hosted by the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a non-profit AI advocacy | This comes as the president-elect reportedly seeks to hire an “AI Czar” to spearhead progress for the technology under his administration, per Axios.

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