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India prioritising shift to remote care: survey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The findings from India revealed an imminent shift toward prioritising remote care, adopting digital health technologies and implementing sustainable healthcare practices. Leaders unanimously believed that the country's policies and plans contribute to building a resilient healthcare system. THE LARGER TREND.

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State Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions, KFF analysis finds

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The Kaiser Family Foundation recently looked at state trends with regard to expanding access to telehealth-based behavioral care during the pandemic and found that states see telemedicine as a key component of maintaining access to behavioral healthcare for Medicaid enrollees. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

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A new advocacy group called Moving Health Home launched on Wednesday, bringing together some heavy hitters – major health systems, care delivery services and technology vendors – who say they want to effect a shift in thinking about treating patients at home, and want to adjust reimbursement models accordingly. WHY IT MATTERS.

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

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The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinicians. Re-center care around the patient-physician relationship. Improve and adopt payment models that incentivize high-value care.

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Be Mindful About What Makes Health at HLTH

Health Populi

The survey informing the report was conducted between August 2 and September 7, 2021, among 3,616 adults 18 and older (in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese based on consumers’ language preferences). This month’s announcement launching the Advanced Care at Home Initiative bolsters this phenomenon.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. These have negatively impacted older people and care for people at home in Great Britain. Here’s just one real-life scenario about baking health and social connection into public policy, across government siloes.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

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Thus, the AHA issued a caveat on the projection of $323 bn losses for 2020 with the proviso that, without reducing the spread of the virus and patients entering inpatient care, health system financial losses will be greater than this forecast. Uncompensated care costs (owing to the sharp upturn in unemployment in the U.S.,