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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Digital Transformation Is The New Mantra But Can’t Happen Without Access To Connectivity

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In 2016, 56% of rural households across the OECD community had access to fixed broadband with a minimum speed of 30 Mbps, versus 85% of households in non-rural areas. Increased availability of health information, services and social networks online can also improve patient experiences. The digital divide in the U.S.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

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Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Relevance is built on recognizing, meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations of organizations.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

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“We” was a trio including Antoinette Thomas (@NurseTechExec1), Chief Patient Experience Officer with Microsoft, David Ryan (@DavidPRyan), former long-time Global Head of Intel’s Health/Life Science business; and, me. But connectivity became a Super Determinant of health.

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Pharma Spending Gone Bipolar: Generics At One End, Specialty Drugs on the Other

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Prescription drug spending on branded products grew nearly $5 billion less than in 2016; generic drug spending fell by $5.5 a report from the IQVIA Institute for Health Data Science. “Growth slowed in 2016 and declined by $5.5 While the use of medicines continues to rise in the U.S., spending grew by only 0.6%

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

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Yet the trust relationship with technology companies, even after the 2016 Cambridge Analytica event, is different and it’s clearly stronger than it is with health insurers. Should it be?

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Benefit Cost Increases Overwhelm Flat Wages for Most in US: Pew

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Then wage growth flattened for several years, until modest increases beginning in 2016. That is, if those patients-as-health-consumers can vote with their feet and pocketbook. As the patient is increasingly the payor, the financial experience is embedded into the patient experience, too. households.