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Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The South Dakota Department of Health selected Avel eCare to connect EMS agencies in the state to emergency physicians and registered nurses via telemedicine.

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GlobalMed Brings Virtual Care to Ghana

GlobalMed

Richardson trained on the mobile telemedicine station and made arrangements with doctors, nurses and a pastor in Ghana to set up the clinics. The doctors and nurses committed to doing follow-ups with people who needed additional help. Over 300 patients showed up, most on foot. The TES visuals were especially popular with the patients.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. in fact devotes fewer hospital beds, physicians and nurses to health care delivery compared with other countries. back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S.,

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Ada Health : beyond symptom checking to the holy grail of healthcare

Lloyd Price

In an article in Wired magazine in 2017, Ada’s app’s diagnoses outshone those of its competitors, Babylon and YourMD, however. As a result, more and more investors are paying attention to the health sector which, due to its complexity, has traditionally been left to biotech or medical devices investors.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs. There is one health care public policy issue that unites U.S.