Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Accelerate digital health. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Advance academic medicine. Deliver breakthrough treatments.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. This week, Health 2.0 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Waystar, a company that supports revenue cycle management in health care, published a survey report on Consumer perspectives on how social determinants impact clinical experience. What does “de-identification” mean in this scenario?

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

Those advertising companies include Google, Facebook, Pinterest, TikTok, and many more, which are immune to HIPAA violations because they are not covered entities. A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. ” JMIR Mental Health 7, no. What Is Privacy?,

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of telehealth policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. One of the top telehealth obstacles is reimbursement. Reimbursement.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. ” The coronavirus pandemic has shown U.S.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Telehealth Medicare Primary Care Health Policy 115

Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

health citizens’ health engagement given growing financial exposure to health care costs (e.g., Financial literacy, especially key to U.S. high deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket copayments).

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Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2019

We are all Homo informaticus these days , multi-channel, multi-platform beings using digital platforms. “Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living,” Nicholas Negroponte wrote in Being Digital. He said that in 1995.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

In the past few years, what event or innovation has had the metaphorical impact of hitting you upside the head and disrupted your best-laid plans in health care? A few such forces for me have been the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of Chat-GPT, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 21, 2024

ACOG’s advocacy for RPM is part of a broader call to action aimed at integrating more robust telehealth solutions across state healthcare policies. This approach includes urging state officials to expand coverage for telehealth services and to equalize the reimbursement rates for remote consultations to those of in-person visits.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

This shortage has been further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has placed significant additional strain on health systems worldwide. One solution to address the shortage of health professionals is the use of telehealth , which enables remote care and consultation.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

Still other digital health startups focus on improving access to primary care via telehealth , virtual visits, and related mechanisms of accessing care. Their path to success—creating savings through price transparency—is also largely unproven, although lowering prices through enhancing competition is a reasonable approach. .

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disrupted and re-shaped the annual CES across so many respects — the meeting of thousands making up the global consumer tech community “met” virtually, both keynote and education sessions were pre-recorded, and the lovely serendipity of learning and meeting new concepts and contacts wasn’t so straightforward. (..)

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Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 194

Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

Here’s the essential telehealth terminology that will put you ahead of the curve. This quick telehealth glossary covers the basic terminology telemedicine clinicians should know. Get to know these, and you should be able to follow along with most telehealth industry conversations or lectures no problem.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the landscape of ambulatory care with rapid shifts to telehealth. Many states have directed insurers to temporarily cover COVID-19-related services via telehealth while mandating parity of reimbursement for telehealth visits with in-person visits for their Medicaid program.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Notably, 32% of families or people with complex chronic conditions, and 37% of those with one chronic condition, received health care treatment for the first time through a video telehealth visit.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Through 2023, we’ll see more technology-enabled care delivery to the home, in community-based brick-and-mortar retailers and clinical spaces, and virtually via telehealth for body, mind, and spiritual health and well-being. In health care, scale matters, and particularly when economic forces are challenging, consolidation happens.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Payers and providers can embrace increased data privacy by focusing on existing compliance efforts, which will require taking time to better understanding HIPAA. Regarding the increased use of telehealth, Gaines says that many appointments that occur in a hospital today can take place outside of the hospital.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2021

Citizens around the world unite around the concept that Trust is Dead. This is no truer than in the U.S., where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn.

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