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

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Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

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To be sure, many of us who have been preaching that our ZIP codes are more impactful to our health than our genetic codes have known the evidence backing the social and behavioral determinants of health for a long time. I attended all three days’ worth of sessions in this well-planned and -executed virtual meeting.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

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By March 2020, telehealth channels were replacing visits to doctors and emergency departments as shown in the first chart from the CDC’s report on the early pandemic period. Welcome to Telehealth Awareness Week , a campaign mounted by the ATA to remind us that #TelehealthIsHealth. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.

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It Will Be a “Meh” Year for Consumers Buying Connected Health Devices, Based on CTA’s 2023 Forecast

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The CTA 2023 data tell us that in this year of 2023, millions of consumers are not persuaded to purchase connected health devices compared with previous years. We know that health consumers are at least as keen in 2023 to view and pay for food-as-medicine from other research you can search on here in Health Populi.

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The Omnichannel Imperative for Healthcare: Supporting Telehealth Awareness Week 2023

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It’s Telehealth Awareness Week , led by the ATA. I celebrate and support the effort; this Health Populi post explains the Association’s mantra that Telehealth is Health, and that telehealth is firmly embedded into healthcare’s omnichannel imperative. So why omnichannel healthcare, and why now?

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Telehealth Platforms: Building Blocks for Omnichannel, Networked Healthcare

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the use of telehealth services tripled in the past year, as healthcare providers limited patients from in-person visits for care and patients sought to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in medical settings. What’s new in this fast-pivot to virtual care is the type of telehealth services used, shown in the first chart from the report.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

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As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.