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Large Employers Expect More Employees Will Experience Prolonged Health Impacts Due to COVID-19, the Business Group on Health Forecasts

Health Populi

employees are expected to sustain serious health impacts that will drive employers’ health care costs, envisioned in the 2024 Large Employer Health Care Strategy Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH). Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S.

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Zoom's head of healthcare talks the future of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. Telemedicine visits have tapered off some since their pandemic peak in 2020. Will telemedicine remain popular?

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Physicians Practicing in the Age of COVID-19: Lower Incomes, More Telehealth

Health Populi

The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. The two impacts impact most physicians as a result of COVID-19 have been experiencing a reduction in income (55%) and increasing the use of telemedicine in the practice (52%).

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Doctor on Demand CEO: Utilization, patient satisfaction keys to success in crowded telemedicine market

Mobi Health News

Telemedicine options for employers in the United States are approaching ubiquity — a National Business Group on Health survey last year found that 96 percent of employers planned to offer telemedicine services to employees this year.

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Majority of health execs say telemedicine has improved patient care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new survey of 500 executives in the healthcare industry found that the switch to telehealth necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has been a largely positive one, and the majority said at least some of the changes would be permanent. WHY IT MATTERS. There is, however, a lingering mystery about what telehealth provision will look like.

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Post-pandemic, majority of patients say they prefer in-person care, survey finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey conducted on behalf of Kyruus, a patient-experience software vendor, found that the majority of consumers say they still prefer in-person care for long-term needs. The Kyruus report is based on a survey of 1,000 people older than 18 from across the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. Those over 57 still preferred in-person care.

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Report shows overwhelming patient interest in post-pandemic virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In its second "state of telemedicine" report, virtual care platform vendor Doximity found that roughly three-quarters of patients surveyed said they plan to continue using telehealth after the pandemic. Report authors observed that this rate was consistent across different race and ethnicity groups. WHY IT MATTERS.