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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity

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With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Tasmania transforming outpatient services with online booking, eReferral system

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The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. The state government has also made a A$150 million ($100 million) investment over four years to upgrade its digital health infrastructure.

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AI: Patients Included

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adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

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This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. Philips was involved early on in responding to health system demands in the ASEAN region, discussed here in Healthcare IT News.