Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Primary Care Home Care Doctors Hospitals 96

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

Primary Care 265

Primary Care Quality of Care Telemedicine Prevention 265

Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%). Counterbalancing the lack of in-person visits, thousands of physicians have pivoted to virtual care and telemedicine platforms.

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Telemedicine Doctors Medicare Primary Care 154

HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

In this partnership, Caption Health’s Caption Care™ clinicians will perform heart ultrasounds in convenient locations, even a patient’s home, using the Caption AI platform, while Heartbeat Health virtual cardiologists receive, read, and interpret the ultrasounds remotely through their telemedicine platform.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Medicare 97

Healthcare It News

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission. Adrienne Mullen is senior director of virtual care at CCA.

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Telemedicine Urgent Care Medicaid Integration 194

HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. The hybrid experience allows a primary care doctor to consult with specialists a thousand miles away and provide in-person, cross-care to local patients.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Telemedicine Primary Care Healthcare Innovation 98

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. Telemedicine use did not vary much across physician age groups.

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Telemedicine Doctors Primary Care Quality of Care 77

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

CMS Proposed Changes to the Physician Fee Schedule 2023 : On July 7, 2022, the CMS announced that it is soliciting public comment on proposed policy changes for Medicare payments under the Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) effective on or after January 1, 2023. Behavioural Health and Telemedicine: The Behavioural Health subsector was down 18.4%

Life Sciences 98

Life Sciences Telemedicine Healthcare Biotechnology 98

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The RPM nurse then works with the patient over the phone, monitors their readings, and coordinates with clinical care teams. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Clinicians can refer their patients to the CHAT, which helps set up their device at home. MARKETPLACE.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. Launched in 2014 by husband-and-wife team Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, Heal started out as an on-demand primary care company serving the general public instead of a targeted patient population. “We

Primary Care 83

Primary Care Medicare Telemedicine Doctors 83

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. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals 171

HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services.

Integration 98

Integration Primary Care Telemedicine Patient Experience 98

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2019

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? Telemedicine used to be about solving access to no care,” Kaveh introduced the conversation. Now, it’s about serving people who already have care through different mechanisms.”. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform.

Primary Care 124

Primary Care Telemedicine Ambulatory Care Doctors 124

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19.

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Telemedicine Medicare Prevention Regulations 116

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As Deloitte’s annual report on the connected consumer has morphed from the “mobile” consumer to the “connected” person, it’s underpinned by omnichannel-everything.

Primary Care 149

Primary Care Doctors Medicare Telemedicine 149

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. The future of healthcare is most likely a hybrid model, where patients receive a mix of virtual and in-person care. healthcare system.

Healthcare 105

Healthcare Patient Experience Urgent Care Population Health 105

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

Healthcare 149

Healthcare Telemedicine Hospitals Urgent Care 149

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. The momentum for the Blur is high velocity.

Primary Care 62

Primary Care Ambulatory Care Hospitals Integration 62

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. gross domestic product in 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services calculated.

Primary Care 106

Primary Care Medicare Accountability Hospitals 106

Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) issued additional rules requiring that payors and providers who receive CMS funds make health information more accessible. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Thus, VBC sits at a pivotal juncture. Heightened cybersecurity threats.

Integration 142

Integration Healthcare Quality of Care Regulations 142

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.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors Prevention 73

Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

Doctors 123

Doctors Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care 123

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The past few years have birthed a growing roster of organizations serving up new models for primary care: the list includes CVS/health, Walgreens coupled with VillageMD, Walmart and its evolving approach to community-based primary care, and many new models for primary care targeting specific populations (from working age employed people to older folks (..)

Primary Care 68

Primary Care Prevention Hospitals Quality Improvement 68

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Nearly $278 million of the $364 million in the FY2024 budget is targeted to expanding certified community behavioral health centers; $72 million is for mental health care and facilities in educational settings, $20 million for telemedicine infrastructure, and $10 million to implement employee wellness supports to address stress and burnout.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Urgent Care Primary Care Hospitals 52

Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys. billion in 2018.

Telemedicine 81

Telemedicine Doctors Primary Care Healthcare 81

Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2020, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) issued additional rules requiring that payors and providers who receive CMS funds make health information more accessible. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Thus, VBC sits at a pivotal juncture. Heightened cybersecurity threats.

Integration 91

Integration Healthcare Quality of Care Regulations 91

Bookzurman

JUNE 30, 2021

Regenstrief Study Shows EHRs Underperforming for Primary Care. OIG Audit Reveals Inaccurate VHA EHR Integration of Non-VA Records. Insider Look: The Veterans Affairs Office of Technical Integration Interoperability. Health Affairs Article Points to HIO Readiness & Engagement in TEFCA. SDOs & Other Organizations.

Health Data 75

Health Data Primary Care Integration Healthcare 75

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.

Doctors 91

Doctors Life Sciences Medicare Urgent Care 91

Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

Primary Care 73

Primary Care Medicare Healthcare Telemedicine 73

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

Urgent Care 111

Urgent Care Primary Care Doctors Quality of Care 111

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues.

Primary Care 215

Primary Care Telemedicine Accountability Remote Care 215

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” ” Software Advice wondered. “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their website.

Health Data 163

Health Data Doctors Health Technology Patient Experience 163

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As providers accept value-based payment, they have an incentive to adopt digital health tools that empower patients to align with them, virtually and economically.

Accountability 141

Accountability Doctors Medicaid Medicare 141

Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

For well over a decade, we've seen this challenge progressively worsen partially because we have had a relatively fixed number of graduates from medical programs since 1997, when Medicare started limiting the funding for these programs. In addition to the limited number of professionals, our population is aging and living longer.

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Telemedicine Health Data Prevention Integration 278

Medical GPS

APRIL 15, 2021

Looking back at Jeff Bendix’s previously mentioned journal for Medical Economics, he explains one of the largest hurdles to finding the balance of virtual and in-person care is out of healthcare providers’ hands. 2) However, there are many who see the benefit of telehealth and are lobbying to make the PHE telehealth rules permanent.

Healthcare Providers 52

Healthcare Providers Primary Care Healthcare Patient Experience 52

Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2023

Ophelia is licensed to provide care in 36 states and contracted with Medicaid, Medicare and commercial insurers covering 85 million American lives. "By receiving care in the privacy and comfort of their own homes, patients don’t need to worry about judgment or disclosure of their condition in a public setting."

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Telemedicine Medicaid Prevention Medicare 151