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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

We’re watching three trends that, if taken seriously, will surely help health plans capture their share of that $1 trillion healthcare improvement opportunity. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Telemedicine, Telehealth, Remote Monitoring and the Latest Congressional Health Reform Proposal

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Much of the bill takes a broad approach to health reform; financing, insurance options, etc., Nor does it include some telemedicine provisions that are included in the House bill, such as the establishment of a Telehealth Advisory Committee. The language refers to the role of health information technology in addressing such needs.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

The health care problem is the No. 1 problem of America and of American business,” Buffett said in 2012. Bezos posed an idea for a cure in 2016, saying that health care would be “one of those industries that is elevated and made better by machine learning and artificial intelligence.”

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