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Guest Blog: Growing Rural Health Access with Telehealth – by Ryan Kelly, Mississippi Telehealth Association

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

One of several possible measures includes the use of telehealth services. However, there may be an additional benefit to providing telehealth beyond just receiving a technology fee. When you survey the negatives to living rural, access to healthcare is almost always at the top of the population’s concerns.

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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

As the first line chart illustrates, the peak of medical trend in the last 18 years was in 2007 when the U.S. Here’s a link to PwC’s 2007 study looking behind the numbers, noting that the 11.9% saw double-digit cost growth of nearly 12%. CMS) and commercial/private side of health plan strategies.

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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Health Populi

The ability to book an doctor’s appointment ASAP, care available in-person and via telehealth, and control over my care — these are key factors Zocdoc explains in the company’s What Patients Want report published this week. pap smear, gyn exam), dermatology, and mental health issues. consumers 18 and over in November 2023.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

The second chart from CTA’s report illustrates’ consumers’ awareness of mental wellness technologies relative to other digital health techs — with fitness tracker apps and telehealth visits best-known among the many items in the digital health portfolio.

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

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. That was the good news.

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Ten Years – Technology for Older Adults – 2009-2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In fact, a greater percentage of the oldest (the real seniors) could be counted if a representative population was actually surveyed. Sadly, it appears that only Link·age surveys tech ownership of the oldest, but that only encompasses their own constituency. Then the iPhone emerged in 2007 , along with the now-declining Fitbit.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Pew hasn’t bothered lately, but AARP recently published a survey of tech ownership among the 50+. Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. This is laudable.

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