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Singaporean health chiefs embrace digital health to tackle staff shortage: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FINDINGS The country's Ministry of Health earlier projected a need for as much as 24,000 additional allied health professionals and support care staff to meet the demands of their nation's ageing population by 2030. The lab aims to facilitate multi-institutional, cross-border collaborations in digital health.

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South Korea forms national commission for promoting bio-health tech and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The ministry collaborated with the Health Development Policy Agency and the Data and Information Center to put up the said portal, which provides access to information including those related to COVID-19 and national surveys like the Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey, Basic Health Research and Health Facilities Research.

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

Health Populi

consumers would be interested in using telehealth going forward, McKinsey’s consumer survey from May 20, 2020, found. On the provider side of the telehealth equation, telehealth visits fast-scaled between 50 to 175 times pre- and post-COVID’s emergence, McKinsey’s physician survey learned. Some 3 in 4 U.S.

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To Avert a GLP-1 Cost Tsunami, Add Lifestyle Interventions: Learning from Virta Health

Health Populi

A team of Virta Health leaders held a webinar on 13th July 2023 to explain the results of a study the company just completed assessing health plan execs’ current views on Ozempic and other GLP-1 medicines with a view on both clinical outcomes and cost implications for this growing category of drugs that address diabetes and obesity.

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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Nurses, year after year, rank top in peoples’ minds for honest and ethical standards in the annual Gallup Poll. Doctors and Pharmacists also ranked high in the latest survey on the topic , along with grade school teachers who have been their own brand of frontline workers in the pandemic era.

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Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Even with the public health emergency declared over, a federal budget agreement signed into law in late 2022 extended waivers through the end of 2024. First, health systems are still faced with massive labor resource constraints, which can be eased through tech-enabled care-at-home, especially if they work with care partners.

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