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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. ” the report read. “Quite a bit, it turns out.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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What’s a Problem, Technology, Opportunity, or Issue That Not Enough People are Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

Isabel Hines, Senior Director of B2B Marketing at Oshi Health – Digestive health, gut health, is really coming up in the surface. I’d love to see more provider organizations and life science organizations coming together to further patient care and do that through research and the potentials for new medicines.

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Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Health Populi

In the past decade, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering SDoH through a variety of lenses across the health/care ecosystem, including care providers like hospitals, health insurance companies, pharma and life science, retail health care front doors, and non-profits and foundations.

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Medical costs projected to increase 6% by 2020, says PwC

Henry Kotula

For employers, per capita health spending on someone with a complex chronic illness is eight times that of a healthy person. Lastly, employers are beginning to recognize the importance of helping their employees manage their mental health and wellbeing. WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

They are focused on creating strategic partnerships to develop a cross-company strategy for health care and life sciences innovation. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015. Participants will also be asked to use sleep sensors in their beds and to undergo mental health tests.

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HIMSS21 tech news: Salesforce Health Cloud innovations; Vivify telehealth scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

IT vendor Salesforce is rolling out new healthcare tools designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations meet their patients, members and customers where they are to deliver the right care, at the right time, from anywhere. Since RPM is not considered a telehealth service, it did not face those restrictions.