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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

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During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Tweets related to “broadband” were noted within the telemedicine/virtual health Twitter streams. First, what did Twitter reveal about telemedicine?

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

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Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. map and citizens’ access has been marked with mental health supply shortages. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation

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A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

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Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. the CTA forecast saw a 73% increase in connected health device spending in 2020, and expects 34% growth in 2021. For the U.S.,

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

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Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation.

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

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Looking at the disruptive oval (grey), see telemedicine broken into physical and mental — with intent to use physical telemedicine post-COVID-19 among 50% of U.S. consumers, and for mental/behavioral health by some 54% of people. User growth rates for both telemedicine segments are forecasted over 60%.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.