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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

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At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. Lack of data interoperability, and. value-based).

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

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At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. – and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

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Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

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billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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The Future of Health Is “Now,” Deloitte Says; But Are Consumers Living and Loving It?

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Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. health care landscape and asks the question in the study report’s title: “Are consumers already living the future of health?” Health Consumers, Deloitte polled 4,522 U.S.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

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health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S., health care as it is currently organized, financed, and delivered.