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The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home

Health Populi

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. Virtual care, post-COVID-19 pandemic, is a new patient expectation as millions of consumers gained access to telehealth in the crisis — and liked the user-experience.

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Four Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from July 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

At the end of June, the federal government published its status report on aging-related initiatives, which was especially notable for including tech investment in ombudsman programs. And it became increasingly likely that CMS would make telehealth access for older adults permanent. More on that in several upcoming white papers.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? Here are the five blog posts from June 2020: Tech adoption older adults matter more now than ever. June -- it was the worst of times.

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Six Covid-19 Aging and Health Technology blog posts from May 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Here are six blog posts from a May unlike any previous: Could technology improve nursing homes? May was an unmerry month of angst and abject failure. All around, we have been locked down beginning in March. We have been incredulous, watching older adults die alone in a nursing home , and then dying in many nursing homes. And on and on.

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Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telepsychiatry plays a critical role in improving access to mental health care, with over one in three outpatient visits being delivered by telehealth, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (for example, 35% and 38% of outpatient visits were over telehealth for depression or anxiety, respectively).

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Closing the gap: Organizations move to telepsychiatry and hybrid therapy to expand mental health services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telepsychiatry plays a critical role in improving access to mental health care, with over one in three outpatient visits being delivered by telehealth, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (for example, 35% and 38% of outpatient visits were over telehealth for depression or anxiety, respectively).

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Rural Healthcare: Challenges And Opportunities

19 Labs

Bringing Enhanced Telehealth To Mexico's Most Isolated Regions Note: This blog entry is from Ram Fish , 19Labs Founder & CEO. Last week, I was in Oaxaca, Mexico to facilitate the launch of a big project between , 19Labs and the local government. Oaxaca is a mountainous state in Southern Mexico.