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Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Kevin Riley , CEO and President at Zyter|TruCare In an era dominated by the complex challenges of chronic diseases, which account for approximately 90% of healthcare costs , a strategic approach to chronic care management (CCM) is essential. affecting about 6 in 10 adults.

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One-Third of People with Chronic Conditions Delayed or Forgone Care During the Pandemic

Health Populi

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. People with lower-incomes were also more likely to delay or not get health care.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. An aging U.S. Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors.

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What Walmart’s Look at Ozempic Users Tells Us About Health/Care Consumers

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“We definitely do see a slight change compared to the total population, we do see a slight pullback in overall basket,” the CEO of Walmart US is quoted in Bloomberg. This speaks to the influence of a segment of patients, acting as health consumers, DIY’ing health from home to the grocery and retail pharmacy.

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Behavioral health and telemedicine: What's in store for 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. Eric Meier, CEO and president of Owl, a vendor of data-driven, evidence-based behavioral health technology, has his finger on the pulse of mental healthcare in the U.S. What's in store for behavioral health in 2022?

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.