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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

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Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. One in three people over 50 in America are most interested in telehealth, with another 30% somewhat interested.

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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

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This is an important question for two major reasons: There is a direct relationship between health and the environment; and, Health care systems are major contributors to climate change due to the large volume of greenhouse gases they emit. million telehealth visits. million telehealth visits. million in gas costs.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

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Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

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It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

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patients’ electronic health records lack the level of interoperability that the COVID-19 pandemic could have better leveraged. That’s a big if: in the U.S., could develop a national COVID-19 pandemic surveillance system.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

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This, too, was a challenge for people who needed health care at home, to avoid contact to avoid the risk of being exposed to the virus. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

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healthcare that emerges from my look into remote health monitoring across Europe is how the 50 U.S. States can forge a national telehealth approach, given professional state licensure regulations. There are virtual health programs operating across Europe — countries — whereas, in the U.S.,