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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

In March 2014, Danny Wegman, patriarch of the family-held Wegman’s grocery chain, came out in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide health information network in New York, where Wegman’s headquarters sits in Rochester. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners

Healthcare IT Today

This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014. This funding is a critical milestone to defining a new, modern standard for supporting medication adherence using evidence-based public health strategies.” Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart shows consumers’ top-line for healthcare spending: that healthcare makes up 20.6% health citizen.

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Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World

Health Populi

In the Weighing Down America study, the Milken Institute gauged that health conditions related to obesity and overweight totaled $428 billion. healthcare spending in 2014. that can nudge the country’s health outcomes, healthcare costs, and health system performance for the better. Analyzing the U.S.

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CMS’ Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs

Healthcare Law Blog

However, for those that haven’t, CMS believes these changes would better equip SNPs to meet their members’ needs, by providing SNPs “a more complete picture of the risk factors that may inhibit enrollees from accessing care and achieving optimal health outcomes and independence.”

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CMS Issues Contract Year 2023 Final Rule for Medicare Advantage Organizations and Prescription Drug Sponsors

Healthcare Law Blog

Considering the impact social risk factors and unmet social needs can have on health, CMS asserts these changes will help better identify the risk factors that may inhibit enrollees from accessing care and achieving optimal health outcomes, enabling MA SNPs to take these risk factors into account in enrollee care plans.

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Report: How Apple Is Advancing Digital Healthcare Transformation

HIT Consultant

. – The report covers Apple’s two-pronged approach to advance health: Apple’s focus on personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, and Apple’s work with the medical community to support research and care. Empowering Users on Their Personal Health Journeys. Keeping Privacy in Mind.