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One-Third of People with Chronic Conditions Delayed or Forgone Care During the Pandemic

Health Populi

physicians grew concerned that patients who were avoiding visits to doctor’s offices were missing care for chronic conditions, discussed in in Delayed and Forgone Health Care for N onelderly Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Urban Institute. People with lower-incomes were also more likely to delay or not get health care.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

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What happened to BloodTech after Theranos?

Digital Health Global

Blood tests are at the heart of the debate about innovative medicine and personal care. Founded in 2016, it continues its activities together with other leading American companies such as Karius specialized in genomic mapping for infectious diseases. Many of the most serious diseases are easiest to predict.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. Wrist-worn health. Smartwatches. Headsets (AR/VR). Sleep trackers.

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Only in America: Medical Debt Hits High Income and Insured People, KHN and NPR Report

Health Populi

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. This research is part of a collaboration program called Diagnosis: Debt from Kaiser Health News (part of the Kaiser Family Foundation) and NPR.

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The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

Health Populi

Many health citizens in the U.S. would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. The first chart illustrates the top-line of this research: that most U.S. Post-Dobbs era of women’s health access challenges).

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How care for cough – one of the top medical complaints – can benefit from RPM and AI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The combined impact of respiratory illness such as COPD, asthma, chronic cough and pneumonia on individuals and health systems is staggering. Some health IT experts believe remote patient monitoring and artificial intelligence have a role to play here. But the use of deep learning models in health is not new. One example?