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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D.

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

When asked to rank what characteristics patients want in their physicians, more Black patients identified the doctor’s respect for an sensitivity toward my gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status along with providing easy access to technologies such as online scheduling and telemedicine.

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

Health Populi

Molly and I then segued into how the health system incumbent players — hospitals, plans, clinicians, and life science companies — can (and should be) part of the telehealth ecosystem and solutions to deliver care, everywhere.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

Since then, the firm expanded internationally and covers every industry segment — including healthcare, per se, but also sectors immediately adjacent to medical services such as life sciences, senior housing technology, retail, and hospitality.

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Weekly Roundup – March 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Next, Andy unpacked generative AI for care management, call center support, and life science research – all valuable for improving workflows that ultimately improve patient care. Read more… Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: A Wealth of Additional Uses.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days. And in 2021 at CES in the era of COVID and beyond, telehealth is now, just, part of the continuum of health care. Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and.

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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.