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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy. To be sure, mental health services expansion will be part of virtual care growth.

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Large Employers Expect More Employees Will Experience Prolonged Health Impacts Due to COVID-19, the Business Group on Health Forecasts

Health Populi

employees are expected to sustain serious health impacts that will drive employers’ health care costs, envisioned in the 2024 Large Employer Health Care Strategy Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH). Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S.

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Telehealth set for 'tsunami of growth,' says Frost & Sullivan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Frost & Sullivan forecasts a seven-fold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38.2%. This poses huge opportunities and challenges for providers and vendors alike. Among researchers' predictions: more user-friendly sensors and remote diagnostic equipment, enabling better patient outcomes.

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Master Guide to Telehealth Statistics for 2019

Enzyme Health

If you are working in telemedicine, you should be aware of the latest data supporting this method of healthcare delivery. Telemedicine is a big business; by 2025, it is projected to exceed $64.1 Telemedicine visits increased at an average compound annual growth rate of 52% per year from 2005 - 2014 ( JAMA ).

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Most U.S. Physicians, Burned Out, Favor A Flavor of Single Payer Health System

Health Populi

Eight in ten physicians are working at full-capacity or are over-extended, the survey found. But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Reimbursement Repercussions for April 2023 End of Public Health Emergency

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Eliminated Prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine will be forbidden without an in-person examination, except in specific circumstances, if further actions are not taken by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Reimbursement of FQHCs and RHCs will continue as distant site telehealth providers for services unrelated to mental health.

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79 Percent of Doctors Are Burned Out. Can Virtual Care Delivery Help?

GlobalMed

The survey of 320 PCPs and 319 specialists reveals that 79 percent of primary care physicians (PCPs) describe themselves as burned out, as do 57 percent of specialists. That’s a sharp rise from the 45 percent of doctors that reported burnout in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey in 2011. faces by 2025.