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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

Over ten years, the premium dollars grew from $13,770 in 2010 to $21K in 2020. The worker’s contribution share was 29% in 2010, and 26% in 2020. Single coverage reached $7,470 in 2020 and was $5,049 in 2010. The first chart illustrates the growth of the premium shares split by employer and employee contributions.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study. health system.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. But there’s another, less visible realm where telemedicine has transformed costing savings and patient outcomes: correctional facilities.

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Closed Loop Medicine Appoints Paul Johnson as Non-Executive Director

Digital Health Global

Appointment of digital healthcare leader to Board to support the Company as it enters next phase of commercial development Co-founder and former CEO of Lemonaid Health, a leading innovator in telemedicine and prescription drug delivery, acquired by 23andMe in 2021 LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Closed Loop Medicine Ltd.,

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Telemedicine - 2010 & 2011 - Part 1 Public Policy

LinkousThink

Here is the first of three pieces on where we have been in 2010 and where we are going next year for telemedicine. For telemedicine, 2010 appears to have been a watershed year - the point when many in charge of government healthcare programs finally started to seriously consider the benefits of such technology.

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Telemedicine 2010 & 2011 Part 2 - TECHNOLOGY

LinkousThink

Telemedicine has never been bereft of electronic wizardry and 2010 included a host of exciting developments with clever new devices that see, analyze, and intervene with any number of medical maladies, all at steadily reduced prices. Video conferencing technologies were also a buzz in 2010.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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