American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While hospital-focused telehealth is still largely used for high-acuity cases like stroke, we see the greater, untapped potential of this technology. When leveraged system-wide, telehealth is a disruptive technology that can impact care delivery in a major way — reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions and improving outcomes for patients, while saving the healthcare system a lot of money.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Peter Elias MD viewing medical record with patient. The image above is from the blog post described below. SPM board member-at-large Peter Elias MD is a recently retired family physician who says he’s always practiced participatory medicine, long before he knew it had a name. He’s contributing a terrific amount of his supposedly “spare” time to SPM, both as board member and as a driving force behind implementation and management of our “ SPM Connect ” communit

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American Well

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While hospital-focused telehealth is still largely used for high-acuity cases like stroke, we see the greater, untapped potential of this technology. When leveraged system-wide, telehealth is a disruptive technology that can impact care delivery in a major way — reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions and improving outcomes for patients, while saving the healthcare system a lot of money.

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ACA Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We are well into open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Despite significant increases in premium rates for 2018, enrollment for healthcare coverage on HealthCare.gov is higher than anticipated. The anticipated increases in premium rates was, in part, driven by an expectation that the Trump administration would stop approving cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments.

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