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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. colonoscopy).

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Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Investment in women’s health tech increased 5% between 2002 and 2023 , according to Deloitte. While healthcare organizations expect 38% of employees to use AI tools by 2028 , 78% say they don’t know how to train employees, according to research from Amazon Web Services. The good news? The bad news?

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Teladoc Shares Plunge as Competition Mounts

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Teladoc was founded in 2002. Teladoc went public in 2015, launching primary, urgent, and mental health care through BetterHelp, its mental health services. . These companies include: Amazon Care – negotiating a $4 billion acquisition deal with One Medical, a primary care provider in the telehealth space.

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The New Pandemic: Burnout Threatens to Wipe Out a Generation of Providers

Healthcare IT Today

A 2019 article published in the American Journal of Medicine estimates that 37% of the time primary care providers spend with patients is actually spent interacting with EHRs. She has worked in the medical scribe industry since 2002, beginning her career as a scribe leader and implementer.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. Take prescription drugs pushing medical trend upward. Since 2019, we can see the hockey-stick increase in the price of specialty drugs fast-growing.

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5 Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring and How to Implement It in Your Practice

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

For example, if a patient is being treated by a primary care physician and a specialist, RPM can help to facilitate communication and coordination between the two providers. RPM can help avoid duplication of tests and treatments and ensure that the patient’s care plan is consistent and effective.