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Inflation, Health, and the American Consumer – “The Devil Wears Kirkland”

Health Populi

Hospitals are not alone in price cliffs, with health insurance premiums spiking last year at the fastest rate in a decade, the Labor Statistics data showed. “For patients and their employers, the increases have meant higher health-insurance premiums, as well as limiting wage hikes,” Melanie Evans explained.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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Insurance Coverage for Psychedelic Therapy

Bill of Health

By Vincent Joralemon As therapies using drugs like MDMA, psilocybin, and LSD advance through the FDA research and approval pipeline, patients should be prepared for steep price tags attached to these procedures. Although this may be highly cost-effective (considering the cost of untreated PTSD), insurers may balk at the price tag.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. Health care executive first; patient advocacy followed.

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Where IT leaders should focus their energies in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' I've seen inroads to patients' homes made with partnerships with broadband carriers or cable TV operators. ' and more.

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HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing

MRO Compliance

HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Fox, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS TV publication, to discuss the future of balancing patient privacy and data sharing. I expect HIPAA to evaluate this concern sometime in 2023.

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health. I need some drugs. Queueing, a favourite past time.

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