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AMA survey: Majority of physicians say telehealth enables more comprehensive quality care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

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. The survey was conducted online in June 2020 among 2,074 U.S. adults ages 50 to 80 years of age.

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

Health Populi

the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. What’s the worth of $323 billion? .”

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The Post-COVID 19 Health Consumer: Ready for DIY Health Care and More Open to Telehealth

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s recommendation here is for the supply-side executives from providers, pharma and health plans to determine which virtual care services make “the most sense and for whom.”