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"The sustainable advancement of telehealth is one that removes inequalities in healthcare"

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

' The latest HIMSS study confirms the technical readability to embrace telecare, but the actual digital maturity was verified in the first weeks of the pandemic. The Nordics are leading in terms of adoption and use of telecare. Since we couldn't do anything without telecare, there was a big mind-shift.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published in October in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare pointed out from a survey that Australian patients prefer telehealth via phone than through videoconferencing, probably due to technical difficulties associated with the latter.

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Bonus Features – June 25, 2023 – 77% of healthcare workers think burnout will cause a healthcare crisis, 62% of patients want digital communication to match the in-person experience, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Surveys More than 75% of healthcare leaders and workers have experienced burnout in the last year , according to a Holon Solutions survey. A similar survey from Tebra found 77% of healthcare workers see a healthcare crisis happening due to understaffing and burnout.

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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

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A 2017 survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute/Greenwald & Associates showed that millennials rated virtual care as “extremely or very important” to their choice of medical provider. But this isn’t new news. Gen Z is the most depressed generation in the U.S. – and this was true even before the pandemic.

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Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?

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A survey conducted by online general practice magazine, Pulse found that over 50% of GPs would welcome appointment fees as a way to make their workload more manageable. A survey by the Office of Fair Trading has found that from the period 1998 – 2009, the percentage of adults with cavities fell from 46% to 28%.Other

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a survey based in the US, patients that experienced telehealth visits highly rated this type of healthcare (recommendations: > 80%) 5,6 , stating it was beneficial for their mental health as well. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5% In a survey among telehealth patients in the UK conducted by Dhahri et al., ” 27.

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Why telemedicine and remote patient monitoring demand will skyrocket in 2019

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According to Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of US Physicians , only 23% of patients have had video visits and just 14% of physicians have video visit capability. A quick search will provide you with hundreds of wonderfully SEO optimized articles outlining the differences between telehealth, telemedicine, telecare, remote patient monitoring….