Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations
The following is a guest article by Josh Wilda, CIO at University of Michigan Health-West.
Armando Ruiz is like many who walk through the doors of Exalta Health: an elderly man greeted in his native Spanish by a bilingual marquee outside the small purple clinic on Grand Rapids’ main thoroughfare. He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model.
The partnership between Exalta and University of Michigan Health-West serves a variety of business objectives for both providers. As ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Armando Ruiz Exalta Exalta Health Grand Rapids Hybrid Care Josh Wilda Laura Kass Source Type: blogs
The power of advocacy: a medical student ’ s journey to helping an uninsured immigrant
It’s the day of my last case presentation for my neurology rotation. Hearing the subway doors shut, I run up the stairs just in time to see them close. Breathless, I walk to the center of the platform. Noting the next train isn’t coming for another seven minutes, I groan in frustration and pull out
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The power of advocacy: a medical student’s journey to helping an uninsured immigrant originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Fabiola Plaza Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
The Business of Diabetes: Dexcom Spends Big on Super Bowl Ad to Hype New G7 Claiming " Feels Like Magic " ; But the Ad Isn't Magic
This month was the U.S. NFL ' s Super Bowl #57; the two teams which played one another were the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City (Missouri) Chiefs, and the Kansas City Chiefs were the winners in a close game throughout. For a moment, let ' s just overlook that Kansas City ' s team name is rooted in the same racism against indigenous native Americans (after all, the team ' s logo is an arrowhead, which was created by native Americans) the same view ultimately forced the old Washington Redskins to change the team name to the Washington Commanders), and let ' s instead focus on this year ' s game advertising. But Misso...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Business of Diabetes 2023 Abbott Advertising business strategy CGM CGMS Dexcom Freestyle Libre Super Bowl Source Type: blogs
Dexcom Spends Big on Super Bowl Ad to Hype New G7 Claiming " Feels Like Magic " ; But Formulary Exclusions Aren't Magic
This month was the U.S. NFL ' s Super Bowl #57; the two teams which played one another were the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City (Missouri) Chiefs, and the Kansas City Chiefs were the winners in a close game throughout. For a moment, let ' s just overlook that Kansas City ' s team name is rooted in the same racism against indigenous native Americans (after all, the team ' s logo is an arrowhead, which was created by native Americans) the same view ultimately forced the old Washington Redskins to change the team name to the Washington Commanders), and let ' s instead focus on this year ' s game advertising. Whil...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 18, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Business of Diabetes 2023 Abbott Advertising business strategy CGM CGMS Dexcom Freestyle Libre Super Bowl Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, the politics were so intense and the debates were so filled with rhetoric in all directions that most people actually didn’t understand that there were three major component parts to the strategy and program that function very directly as a package, and should be looked at now in the context of several years of implementation to see how each part of that law is currently doing.
Medicaid was our first priority.
The first component part — and the one that had the highest need for passage when the law was passed because we were doing such a horrible job...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act George Halvorson Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
13 Year Old McAllen
BY IAN MORRISON
As a Scot, obviously I am a whisky fan, and although I prefer the smoky malts of Islay (where my grandfather was from and where I visit my friends there frequently), I am also a huge fan of McCallan 18-year-old whisky, the sticky toffee pudding of single malts.
But as all policy wonks know, McAllen Texas is not famous for whisky but for Atul Gawande’s “Cost Conundrum” article in the New Yorker, in 2009 which is still required reading in medical school and MPH classes and was arguably the cornerstone of Obama health policy and the ACO movement.
Dr. Atul Gawande described overutilization and hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Affordable Care Act Atul Gawande Ian Morrison McAllen Texas Source Type: blogs
Costco Wholesale: What Is Its Pharmacy Strategy? It's Complicated.
Conclusion: Costco Pharmacy Manages Hybrid Cash/Insurance Payments for Rx Drugs Better Than Most Other Big Pharmacy Chains. Still, Costco Won ' tALWAYS Be the Low-Price Leader Because of How the U.S. Prescription Drug Market Functions.Costco Pharmacy ' s cash prices for many prescriptions may be low enough for people to simply bypass their insurance and pay out-of-pocket, which Costco welcomes, similar to how Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. or a number of other rapidly-growing, cash-only pharmacies which are popping up nationwide operate because their cash prices may be potentially even cheaper than by using insurance. Howev...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 21, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Big pharma bypass insurance cash pharmacy cash-only pharmacy Costco Costco Wholesale Corp. PBM ' Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor ’ s office, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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CMS is holding off on enforcing a provision of the No Surprises Act, expected to go into effect Jan. 1, which required providers to offer good faith estimates to uninsured or self-pay patients. At issue: The challenge of in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Regulations Agfa Healthcare AngelEye Health AtlasJobs Authenticx Avanlee Care Bluesight Brightside Health CMS Dr. Hau Liu DrFirst Equiva Health FDB Gary Rothenberg Get Well GSR Ventures Healthcare IT Today B Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor ’ s office, and much more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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CMS is holding off on enforcing a provision of the No Surprises Act, expected to go into effect Jan. 1, which required providers to offer good faith estimates to uninsured or self-pay patients. At issue: The challenge of in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Regulations Agfa Healthcare AngelEye Health AtlasJobs Authenticx Avanlee Care Bluesight Brightside Health CMS Dr. Hau Liu DrFirst Equiva Health FDB Gary Rothenberg Get Well GSR Ventures Healthcare IT Today B Source Type: blogs
Rethinking Newer Events
BY KIM BELLARD
It’s a lot more fun to write about exciting new technologies, or companies in other industries that healthcare could learn from, than to pick on healthcare for its many, well-known shortcomings, but there was an article in JAMA Forum last week that I had to note and perhaps expand on: A New Category of “Never Events” – Ending Harmful Hospital Policies, by Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc and Adam L. Beckman, BS (he is also an MD/MBA student).
The concept of a “Never Event” is well known by this point. Coined some twenty years ago by Ken Kizer, MD of the National Quality Form (NQF) and soon w...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Kim Bellard medical debt Never Event sustainable development Source Type: blogs
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About 2.3 million uninsured, impoverished adults fall into the Medicaid coverage gap — they are too poor for ACA subsidies, yet ineligible for Medicaid.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - November 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 29th October, 2022.
This report presents CDC findings on telehealth use trends in 2021. It includes data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey conducted throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. -----https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-13/women-older-adults-more-likely-to-use-telemedicine-in-2021Who Used Telemedicine in 2021?New data shows which groups have been most likely to use a health care option popular during the pandemic.By Christopher WolfOct. 13, 2022, at 12:01 a.m.More than 1 in 3 adults used telemedicine in the past year in 2021, ac...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –24th September, 2022.
This article makes the case and explains what will be required to make it happen.We hear a lot about “digital health” these days. As data about our health piles up — thanks to sources like electronic health records, personal fitness apps and gadgets, and home genome test kits — weshould understand a lot more than we used to about what ’s wrong with our health and what to do about it. But having a lot of data is not enough. We have to be aware of what we have, understand what it means, and act on that understanding. While the challenges are in some ways more acute in the United States because of its fragmented sys...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Generic Crestor Pricing Insanity
For a number of years, I ' ve used a statin drug (like 35 million Americans in the United States do). For more than a few years, these drugs were rather costly and protected by exclusive patent protection, although at the time, they were mostly covered by my insurance to prevent major heart attacks which could cost them even more (hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims).I ' ve used several different low-dose statins over the years, mostly for their preventative benefits. I initially began with Pfizer ' s Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium), but I experienced some pretty severe muscle aches which made it difficult for me to ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 23, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: rosuvastatin calcium coupon-generating websites apps coupons Crestor generic generics PBM Source Type: blogs
Using Data-Driven Fintech Tools to Tackle the Healthcare Affordability Crisis
The following is a guest article by Chiranjib Gupta, Chief Risk Officer at PayZen.
We are witnessing a healthcare affordability crisis in America. Reading the headlines, it doesn’t take long to encounter some horror story of medical costs running rampant: an uninsured woman saddled with bills in the tens of thousands for a complicated birth, a life-saving medication costing a patient hundreds of dollars per vial, the list goes on.
The issues facing the healthcare system at large can seem insurmountable at times, which is why it’s important to focus on areas where we can make a difference in ways that make sense for eve...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Chiranjib Gupta Healthcare Affordability Healthcare Costs Medical Debt PayZen PayZen Care Card Risi Source Type: blogs
