Arizona’s smartphone app-based outreach plan for its Medicaid (low-income health insurance) program has raised a few eyebrows. The app/online site would: * Help beneficiaries find primary and urgent care providers * Provide beneficiaries access to chronic disease management tools * Send beneficiaries appointment reminders The programs would use mobile, online and texting, which doesn’t require a smartphone and has historically worked well in compliance and information (e.g. Text4Baby). For the critics, however, Pew Research found that half of those with incomes under $30,000 have smartphones. This number also includes the elderly, and does not take into account recent growth–smartphone prices... Continue Reading
Search Results for chronic traumatic encephalopathy
TBI, early brain aging and a seismic analogy
...pseudobulbar affect (PBA). This article in the Genetic Literacy Project website works with an earthquake analogy: that there are P-waves (blast pressure) that compress tissues and disrupt neuronal communication, and in the long term accelerate brain aging and cognitive decline. Something sports injury, CTE researchers and research organizations within the military such as DARPA and DoD should be investigating. Hat tip to author and reader Dr Ben Locwin via Twitter. An abundance of related reading in TTA can be found in searches under TBI and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Also see our 2012 and prior archives for our writing on TBI.... Continue Reading
‘Déjà vu all over again’ or critical mass? NYTimes looks at older adult care tech
...provider Eskaton uses Care Innovations’ QuietCare; Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan LivingWell@ Home initially used WellAWARE, then acquirer Healthsense for telecare plus Honeywell HomMed (now Life Care Solutions) for telehealth. Their foundation systems date back to the early to mid 2000s. There are newer innovations for distance care (3rings in the UK) and home management (e.g. the Nest thermostat) which are seamless and less ‘fussy’ or intrusive in monitoring. Telehealth using tablets or web-based (Viterion, Vivify Health, GrandCare, Care Innovations’ Health Harmony, Panasonic On4Today), not the bulky boxes of years past, is also finding a place in medical practices’ Medicare chronic... Continue Reading
A Tuesday Must Read: “Confessions of a non-compliant patient”
Carolyn Thomas is the ‘Heart Sister’ of the eponymous blog, and has been a guest columnist and commenter in these pages. Via Twitter she brought to her followers’ attention this back posting which chronicles how a person who normally copes with a chronic disease can be absolutely kicked in the kishkes* when a few other physical troubles are added to the pile. Alone, they could be coped with; aggregated and on top of difficulty functioning, they make for Misery. And Misery makes for Non-Compliance. And Non-Adherence. And the Burden of Treatment gets ever heavier, and the frustration of both patient... Continue Reading
Blueprint Health’s 8 for Class 8
...database healthcare professionals and algorithms to predict who is open to new job opportunities GetCompliant (HIPAAWithUs.com) Provides a full service platform for HIPAA compliance for physician practices MedPilot (MedPilot.com) Decreases patient payment write-offs for medical practices by offering customizable payment plans and advocacy services to patients Oculus Health (OculusHealth.com) Enables primary care physicians get reimbursed for caring for patients with chronic conditions outside of the clinic with a platform designed to meet the requirements of Medicare’s new chronic care billing code Psocratic (Psocratic.com) Helps employers reduce stress and improve the productivity of their employees with a platform that provides time... Continue Reading
46 percent of undiagnosed chronic disease discovered through corporate wellness program
A HealthMine survey of corporate wellness program participants found that 46 percent of respondents who were diagnosed with a previously unknown chronic disease discovered it as a result of their wellness program. Corporate wellness programs have been light on ROI metrics (many are at heart incentive programs). While the survey was conducted by a provider of these programs (HealthMine’s Automatic Health) and should be seen in that light, it also indirectly confirms the proactive value of health screenings. Employees want more as well. Participants in an earlier survey that they would like programs to offer vision (74 percent), genetic testing... Continue Reading
Payer reimbursement for telehealth, telemedicine gains in Delaware, Connecticut (US)
...summary is similar in breadth to Connecticut’s. Delaware is now the 29th state to enact telehealth/telemedicine reimbursement legislation. Articles written by members of the Foley & Lardner law firm. JD Supra, Lexology On the Federal front, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) and three other members of the House of Representatives introduced H.R. 2948, the Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2015. It would remove the current geographic restrictions for telehealth (in the Federal definition including telemedicine), expand services, expand telehealth/RPM for additional chronic conditions and expand home care service into hospice and dialysis. It is a rework of last session’s H.R. 5380... Continue Reading
Breaking news confirmed: Bosch exiting healthcare and telehealth in US–UPDATED
...ties is often a leading indicator of a sale or spinoff of the unit. Your Editor’s misconception has been corrected by an anonymous source. The company had a very active marketing presence up until this week, with a large booth at ATA, a well-attended webinar in late April and had just published a white paper on telehealth and the Triple Aim. Bosch was also staking out a logical and unique position in addressing the role of health management in mental illness, with or without chronic medical illness. * Why no sale or spinoff? Mr Rowan cites a drop in revenues... Continue Reading
What’s news at the end of the week
Care Innovations harmonizes seniors, Panasonic adds diabetes, Jawbone and Fitbit bite, the first EHR/PHR Hack and Concussion in Cleveland. Converging its interests in remote patient monitoring with its long-time footprint in senior housing resident monitoring (QuietCare), Intel-GE Care Innovations is testing its Health Harmony remote patient monitoring system, partnering with two California-located Front Porch communities and the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing. The residents selected have poor chronic condition management or have returned after a discharge from a skilled nursing facility. No disclosure on projected number or duration–and it doesn’t appear that QuietCare is part of the monitoring.... Continue Reading
Telstra has spent $100M on telehealth
Telstra Health has splashed out $100 million buying up other telehealth companies, it was revealed at a recent conference. Bronwyn Pike, former Minister of Health in Victoria and now Community Care Lead at Telstra Health, addressing the 13th National Rural Health Conference[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Telstra-Health.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /] held in Darwin from May 24th to 27th, described how Telstra Health wants to transform rural health in Australia. “Increasing demand, rising costs and more people with chronic illness are among the challenges Australia’s health care industry is facing. Working harder can only go so far — we need to reimagine what the future could... Continue Reading
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