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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

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. “Just imagine if you were 100% fee-for-service,” commented Dr. Fuad Sheriff, a primary care physician whose practice is based on capitated payments. The title of their analysis, Hospital volumes hit unprecedented lows , is subtitled, “revenue losses mean long recovery ahead.” You would have been dead meat.”.

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

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By Bill Siwicki | June 15, 2023 News How one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in.

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Heart-Love – Omron’s Holy Grail of Blood Pressure Tracking on the Wrist

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Omron has been one of the few consumer-facing digital health companies that has taken the long-view and done the work to file for FDA clearance for a medical-grade technology that mainstream consumers can use. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

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To effectively personalize health care, Deloitte expects that health care providers will partner with technology companies to assess large pools of patient data (e.g., We segue then to a view from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Health Tracking Poll focusing on the cost of health care and prescription drugs.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

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Google,” WebMD, or any number of.gov,edu, or.com healthcare information on-ramps; or, to order medical supplies and equipment on ecommerce sites like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, and other retail health outlets. These three maps illustrate the inconsistent growth rates across metro areas in the U.S,