...all goes well. On paper, industry observers like it but point out the overlap in one significant area. Cigna earlier announced that it wants to sell its relatively small Medicare Advantage business, concentrating on its leadership in the commercial business and with its service businesses under the Evernorth umbrella. Humana is exiting its commercial health plans to focus on MA and Medicaid, as well as its large footprint in the home health business with CenterWell. Humana’s CEO Bruce Broussard is retiring next year, with newcomer to Humana Jim Rechtin joining as COO in January 2024 as his replacement. Cigna’s CEO... Continue Reading
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NHS Digital GPDPR medical database plans criticized by Royal College of GPs, privacy advocates (updated 8 June)
...plan come to fruition. I despair for my children and grandchildren. Bruce Elliott The public should be first encouraged to view and understand what of their own 'data' is being shared and how it could possibly benefit them. The communications around this issue have been woeful for many years and sadly show no signs of improvement. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and should benefit from the use of my 'data' but because organisations like DiabetesUK don't seem to be involved in the conversations, decision making and communications around this it irritates me intensely. This could be done so much better... Continue Reading
IoT=Cyberdisaster, if we don’t chill innovation and secure it. It’s hip to be scared!
It’s hip to be scared and chill out innovation till we can secure it. That is the plain thought behind the new book Click Here to Kill Everybody, Bruce Schneier’s take on how IoT is going to wreck our lives. Basically, if it can be hacked, it will be, and the more we make dumb things smart, the easier this mischief will be able to hurt us–not our data, but our lives, health, and property. As our Readers know, TTA has been calling out the threat to humanity since The Gimlet Eye lampooned Internet Thingys doing things against their will... Continue Reading
News roundup: First Stop, GlobalMed, American Well, Avizia, Medicity, Health Catalyst, Allscripts, Welbeing, BenevolentAI
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lasso.jpg” thumb_width=”125″ /]Announcements and acquisitions have been multiplying–here’s what’s most interesting. In companies we’ve recently written about: Our recent Contributor Bruce Judson, now with corporate telemedicine provider First Stop Health, wrote us enroute to the Government Finance Officials Association conference in St. Louis that FSH achieved triple-digit top-line revenue growth and also achieved an average utilization rate of 52 percent. The formal announcement was made earlier this week at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas (release), where another one of our Contributors, Sarianne Gruber, is attending for Answers Media Company. GlobalMed, a prior contributor to Perspectives, is offering a... Continue Reading
Far from a tipping point: only 18 percent of consumers using telemedicine. An expectation gap? (US)
Bruce Judson Digital transformation happens slower than expected, then far faster than anyone imagined. As compared to last year, the number of Americans who are aware of telemedicine and have used it has increased dramatically. It may not yet be "top of mind" for the great majority of Americans, but the numbers in this article suggest the hockey-stick of rapid growth leading to the tipping point is happening. Your article points out it may not be happening as fast as industry participants now believe. See my article on this transformation, your Weekend Big Read: will telemedicine do to retail healthcare... Continue Reading
Weekend Big Read: will telemedicine do to retail healthcare what Amazon did to retail?
Updated. Our past contributor and TelehealthWorks’ Bruce Judson (ATA 2017 coverage) has penned this weekend’s Big Read in the HuffPost. His hypothesis is that telemedicine specifically will disrupt location-based care, followed by other digitally based care–and that executives at health systems and payers are in denial. More and more states are recognizing both parity of treatment and (usually) payment. Telemedicine also appeals to three major needs: care at home or on the go, with a minimal wait; maldistribution of care, especially specialized care; and follow-up/post-acute care. His main points in the article: Healthcare executives are being taken by surprise because... Continue Reading
Successful Aging 2030: how far we haven’t come, how far we have to go
...other ‘consumer’ areas despite billions in spend. Add in the layer cake of regulations and requirements affecting cost, delivery, and inflexibility. “The Patient Will See You Now” is nowhere near. ) Black Rock Institute‘s Bruce Wolfe noted how people underestimate how long they are going to live and overestimate their assets. This led into a discussion on what constituted meaningful work for older adults since ‘retirement’ is a phase, not a withdrawal. A disappointment to this Editor was that most of the answers seemed to be about unpaid (volunteer) or low paid work which is not satisfactory for those with... Continue Reading
ATA 2017 dispatch: Devices and doom
[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Drowning-in-paper.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]Bruce Judson, our guest ATA 2017/Telehealth 2.0 reporter, is a bestselling author of books on business and technology issues in the evolving digital era. This is the third and final article this week he’s written from the ATA floor. Mr. Judson writes frequently for The Huffington Post. More on about him may be found in our review of his critique of the RAND telehealth study [25 Mar]. This Editor agrees with his POV that drowning doctors in more and more data, whether previously accessible or not, isn’t a way forward to a successful business model. The current... Continue Reading
ATA2017 dispatch: Catalyzing telehealth innovation in hospitals
Bruce Judson, our guest ATA 2017/Telehealth 2.0 reporter, is a bestselling author of books on business and technology issues in the evolving digital era. This is the second article this week from the ATA floor. Mr. Judson writes frequently for The Huffington Post. More on about him may be found in our review of his critique of the RAND telehealth study [25 Mar]. His discussion with ATA’s Jonathan Linkous on business models for telehealth is here. Orlando, April 25. At the ATA show, I stopped at Mercy’s booth, and spoke with Keela Davis, who is Mercy’s Executive Director, Innovation and... Continue Reading
ATA 2017 dispatch: The future is about business models and the consumer
Bruce Judson, our guest ATA 2017/Telehealth 2.0 reporter, is a bestselling author of books on business and technology issues in the evolving digital era. This is the first of several articles this week. Mr. Judson writes frequently for The Huffington Post. More on about him may be found in our review of his critique of the RAND telehealth study [25 Mar]. Orlando, April 24. Yesterday, the annual convention of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) moved into full swing. At noon, Jonathan Linkous, ATA’s CEO, took a few minutes to talk with me. During our wide-ranging discussion, three notable themes emerged:... Continue Reading
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