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AMA sees surge in health IT adoption, 'rise of the digital-native physician'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The new AMA Digital Health Research sees attitudes and expectations changing among the physicians it surveyed. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The Heart Health Continuum at #CES2023 – From Prevention and Monitoring to Healthy Eating and Sleep

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The biggest, most visible category here is focusing on blood pressure , which has been a growing digital health focus expanding at CES annually over the past decade. OMRON launched the VitalSight remote heart health monitoring program at CES 2020 , now collaborating with medical centers and physicians across America. In the U.S.

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What $31,065 Can Buy You: a Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, a Year at Gnomon School, or Healthcare for a Family of 4 in America

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this year — a reduction in trend driven, potentially, by patent expirations on branded drugs and the launch of some biosimilars this year; and, Other services, a broad category covering home healthcare, ambulance services, durable medical equipment, prosthetics, and other items.

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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8% Of the 3,473 physicians, 13.8%

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

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Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One-fourth of doctors plan to implement this capability in the next two years.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

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The latest Health Care Cost and Utilization Report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) details health spending in 2021, dissecting the change in terms of utilization of services and prices by category. Total spending, cumulatively, increased by 21.2% between 2017 and 2021.