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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Health Populi

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. primary care teams may be a function of underinvestment in certain types of social services.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

The value of care delivered at home and closer-to-home is part of this awareness, which is represented by the re-envisioned care delivery modes in Deloitte’s vision here.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Telehealth is a tool in our toolkit that is largely substitutive, not additive, to in-person care," she said. Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

Mental and behavioral health. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity. Preventive and primary care. Acute, urgent, and same day care, and. Reasons for doing so, among over 50% of doctors, include: Medical and chronic disease management. Hospital or emergency room follow-up.

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Rationing Care in America: Cost Implications Getting to Universal Health Coverage

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The average outpatient visit in the United States runs $500, and an inpatient stay, $22,000, a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington on the global costs of medical services and how to fund universal health care.

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

Health Populi

health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S.