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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

That means small growth expected for pediatrics and specialties that serve the young, and huge growth expectations for clinicians focused on providing care to older and older health citizens. In 2017, HealthLeaders published an essay titled, “The U.S. This Big Trend converges with another aging demographic: that of U.S.

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Consumers Shop Food for Health, But Cost Is a Barrier to Healthy Eating

Health Populi

It’s mainstream now that Americans are shopping food for health, with eyes focused on heart health, weight, energy, diabetes, and brain health, according to the 2018 Food & Health Survey from IFIC, the International Food Industry Council Foundation. IFIC surveyed 1,009 American online adults ages 18 to 80 in March 2018.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Implementation Of Telehealth Services Update: Survey

BHM Healthcare Solutions

A new survey exams the attitudes, perspectives, and plans of healthcare leadership that are shaping telemedicine’s application, value, and potential. In May 2017, Baltimore-based SGP surveyed 98 individuals. The survey took a look at telemedicine within certain specialty areas.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S. 48% mobile app. 33% wearables.

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Patients have ambitious health goals, and look to doctors for help

Health Populi

Aetna worked with Market Measurement to conduct 1,000 interviews among people 18 years of age and older in December 2017. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians. But two-thirds of women are keen to spend an extra hour a day on well-being.

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Grow Your Practice Through Telehealth

Continue Education Journal

40% of those surveyed responded that they will continue to use telehealth to receive care going forward, an 11% increase from before the pandemic. As of April 2021, 84% of physicians were offering virtual visits and 57% said they would prefer to continue offering virtual care.