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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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Patients embraced virtual care and communications at very high rates in the first months of the pandemic, and want to continue to use telehealth platforms after the pandemic ends. Patients perceived care was at least as good or better than traditional face-to-face encounters, and.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

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The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. ” For a decade or longer, we’ve noted the slow uptake of telehealth and digital health tools among healthcare providers. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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The Persistent Rural/Urban Broadband Gap Is Bad for Health

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Across the four types of tech studied, it’s smartphones that top the list of penetration in rural areas (at 71%), closely followed by computers (desktop or laptop, with 69% adoption), broadband (at 63%) and tablets in fourth/last place (49%).

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

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Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Nearly one-half would also be keen on mental health appointments and specialty visits for chronic conditions.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

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The diagram illustrates Accenture’s “Disruptability Index” study published last year. ” There’s no more eHealth or mHealth — it’s all health, it’s all digital. ” bubble chart of industry positions.

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

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The Common Sense-CHCF-Hopelab study confirmed that health information seeking was a coping strategy for many younger people in 2020 — especially intense for younger folks who had moderate to severe depression, shown in the right column of the chart. A new mental health risk arose in 2020 in the U.S.