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Telehealth shows promise for fostering better doc-patient relationships

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As telehealth use continues to expand, many are wondering what the ramifications will be when, as is widely expected, virtual care becomes a much larger part of the healthcare experience going forward. Lown of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare and Arwen Sheridan and Ian Tong of telehealth company Doctor on Demand.

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

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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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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

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FYI, Press Ganey, a leading health care patient experience organization, has created an impressive library of resources addressing the pandemic, linked here.]. We may admire care providers, Press Ganey notes, “but admiring caregivers does not mean patients trust that their needs will be met safely and well.”

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

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It’s these very consumer-facing technologies featured at CES that can bolster information-gathering at the N of 1 patient, self-caring in the Age of Corona at home.

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Color Me Healthy – Pantone’s Forecast on Post-Pandemic Well-Being and Design

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Note that David — a fashion and style maven — talks about the adoption of telehealth and e-health in The New Healthy as part of this message. Some examples to expect going forward are: In hospitality, virus-scrubbed air in hotels and cruise shifts with state-of-the-art filtration systems. .”

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

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The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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Health @ Retail – Prelude to GMDC SelfCare Summit with Updates from Hims & Hers, GoodRx, Sam’s Club and Amazon Care

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Start with Hims and Hers, moving in the opposite direction from telehealth care focused on men’s and women’s health, morphing into a physical pharmacy distribution model. Now consider GoodRx, linking up with HeyDoctor to help the prescription drug discounting platform expand telehealth services.