{"id":3318,"date":"2016-06-26T03:14:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T07:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:20:43","slug":"digital-health-not-just-for-well-heeled-fitness-fiends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digital Health\u2019 Not Just For Well-Heeled Fitness Fiends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov)<\/p>\n<p>When we hear the phrase \u201cdigital health,\u201d we might think about our Fitbit, the healthy eating app on our smartphone, or maybe a new way to email our doctor.<\/p>\n<p>But Fitbits aren\u2019t particularly useful if you\u2019re homeless, and the nutrition app won\u2019t mean much to someone who struggles to pay for groceries. Same for emailing your doctor if you don\u2019t have a doctor or reliable internet access. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/digital-health-not-just-for-well-heeled-fitness-fiends\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30971433&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8q0w401mlJ58EGd3NjIN95rgtI-yoeBdQWTCQtoSxEkS8qvGpRPNZ1CRFzvvOkRvifldSOdMEMjvYKEKpW7WzvQjzyYw&amp;_hsmi=30971433\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov) When we hear the phrase \u201cdigital health,\u201d we might think about our Fitbit, the healthy eating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicaid","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}