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Site-Shifting: the Consumer-Driven Pressure on Traditional Healthcare Utilization

Health Populi

consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.

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After initial spike, telehealth visits are on the decline, report finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found a "plateau" in the growth of telemedicine visits, accounting for a relatively small percentage of rebounding ambulatory care services. Schneider and VP for delivery system reform Tanya Shah in a blog post accompanying the report. of the number of baseline visits.

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

“Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021. Consumer experiences (CX) were not uniformly terrific, especially with an increasingly anxious patient dealing with a stressed provider system.

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How Health Systems Can Develop a Financially Sustainable Behavioral Health Program

Iris Telehealth

In this blog, we’ll share the keys to building a financially sustainable behavioral health program and insights from our Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, Dan Ferris, on the benefits and impact on total cost of care.

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The 2021 Amwell Client Awards

American Well

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. National Association of Letter Carriers.

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How providers can fine-tune their ‘webside’ manner in the age of COVID-19

American Well

While hospitals in hotspots struggled to stay afloat amid a surge of patients newly diagnosed with COVID-19, ambulatory providers found themselves upended from their routine patient encounters and had no choice but to adopt or at least consider telehealth. million U.S. residents, as of June 2020.

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To Integrate Next-Gen Telehealth, We Need Health System Redesign

Healthcare IT Today

The piece, which appears in the Health Affairs blog, looks at the state of telehealth in the U.S. It also makes some recommendations on how to think about telehealth in the […]. Today I read an interesting piece by Sean Cavanaugh, chief policy officer of ACO sponsor Aledade Inc. and how we got where we are.