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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, 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. Included Health is partnering with Dispatch Health to connect virtual primary care to in-home urgent medical care. as Chief Medical Officer.

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

Health Populi

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. In other words, the U.S. “Just imagine if you were 100% fee-for-service,” commented Dr. In other words, the U.S.

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Weekly Roundup – March 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Bonus Features for February 25, 2024 : 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, while 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management.

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More accolades for Topol as ‘connected health’ gains

Meaningful HIT News

As such, the company says, Topol will “impact the design, development and delivery” of connected health products and services for the AT&T ForHealth business. I can’t see primary care physicians shelling out that kind of cash when the old technology is $200 or less. He just gets that much done.

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Time To Travel And Wait In Health Care: The Opportunity For Self-Care At Home

Health Populi

Considering the “poor health” bar in the graph, we can see the opportunity for telehealth and home visits to people who may have mobility and other challenges leaving the home space. Why should that be, in a physical sense?

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Telehealth Reimbursement: End-of-Pandemic Emergency Update

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The article below clarifies and summarizes the end-of-pandemic reimbursement decisions made by private payers, Medicare, and Medicaid. Medicaid, CHIP, and Telehealth For Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), telehealth flexibilities are not tied to the end of the PHE.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

This, to assure the physician that he would not be tracked by the sort of FBI state licensing compact concerns described in the linked article above. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages.