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

Health Populi

Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. ” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.” ” The U.S.

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Big tech – from simple tools to cynicism and hapless users

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Apple’s Safari did not appear until 2003 and Google Chrome in 2008 – eventually these dominated the browser market, though three cheers for the existence of privacy-oriented browser Brave (2016) and search tool DuckDuckGo (2008). Uh, was I shown that because of one of my tweets about tech in nursing homes? As for Facebook?

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Who can comprehend that 43% of Covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes? Or that high speed internet would not be available in nursing homes or the dementia care units in assisted living where their relatives now lived. In the time of Covid-19, some are talking about an increasing use of technology in their nursing homes.

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Aging in place – what goes around comes around -- maybe

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The death rates from Covid-19 (or with Covid-19) of seniors in nursing homes and assisted living were horrific on the one hand and daunting to prospective move-ins. million reside in nursing homes and approximately 800,000 living in senior living communities (average resident age is 87 ). Aging in place forever – the concept.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked. ” .

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How the Coronavirus is Reshaping Consumer Trust – The Edelman Trust Barometer Lens and Health Impacts

Health Populi

consumers were re-shapen by the 2008 Recession in two key ways: people took on more self-service DIY daily life-flows, seeking self-sufficiency and less dependence on institutions; and, consumers became more value-sensitive both in terms of financial value and personal values. But the situation still gets worse.

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New outlook for telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In those 35 smaller hospitals, there are significant challenges in medical workforce coverage and nursing. An example is the vCare or Virtual Care unit and their role is to provide emergency and acute care support to the 35 rural hospitals, which started in 2008. A programmatic approach to achieving outcomes.