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Telemedicine, Baby Boomers and Tech-Savvy Millennials

Arizona Telemedicine Program

The Association of American Medical Colleges reported in May the results of its 2017 Medical School Enrollment Survey, which found that medical school enrollment has increased 29 percent since 2002-2003.

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Nurses Earn Highest Grade for Care Far Above All Other Health Care Workers — Including Doctors — In Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

Note that 8 in 10 consumers rate nurses excellent/good compared with 7 in 10 people ranking physicians this way, 6 in 10 for hospitals, 5 in 10 for telemedicine/virtual visits, and just under 5 in 10 for hospital emergency departments. health system among Americans earlier this year in a July study. health system.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

FYI, Dr. Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. There’s another article in the magazine on telemedicine strategies that are helping hospitals address COVID-19.

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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Health Populi

health care system continues to be so much about prices — as Uwe Reinhardt and colleagues advised us in the seminal Health Affairs article from 2003, “It’s the Prices, Stupid.” Value is what you get.” ” The U.S. ” Buffett and Reinhardt et. have a lot to teach us about value-based care.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): June 2015

American Well

Welcome to the first installment of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today, #tday for all you Twitter users. Each  Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. ” Read More. Healthcare Informatics.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

They were also less willing to use a computer to interact with people at a distance ( Skype had just surfaced in 2003 ). Telemedicine was positively perceived in 2008, but… More than half of older adults said they would like to be able to monitor their health status at home, sending information to their doctor via telephone and email.