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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. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

Health Populi

We learned this lesson during the pandemic quite clearly — connectivity as a social determinant of health. .” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

Additional trends to watch will be, Continued efforts to manage the total cost of care (that is, value-based care models) A COVID hangover, boosting provider unit cost increases and pharmacy trends Behavior health and mental health services growing, and, Health equity getting more attention and resources on both the public sector (e.g.,

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Like banks, healthcare will become digital-first in 2022, Zoom healthcare lead says

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. You predict that decentralization will become a major theme for health and life science organizations.

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How the Pandemic has Impacted the HealthTech Marketplace

Healthcare IT Today

In the past, addressing health concerns involved either seeing a doctor or going to the hospital depending on the urgency of the condition. Now, we have numerous access points to healthcare such as retail clinics, community centers, at-home care providers, telehealth options, and behavioral clinics. About Tray Chamberlin.

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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. we see an over-indexing of office, institutional and telehealth visits (at 108) and a 104 gauge on new prescriptions.

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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. Kyle Faget, Partner and Co-Chair of Healthcare Practice Group at Foley & Lardner – Coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services.