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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Falling Revenue Means Pharmacies in Italy Aren’t Keeping up with Other EU Countries

Bill of Health

billion in 2011, the reduction in 2021 is equal to -13.3% Currently, it is estimated that almost 42% of Italians enter the pharmacy not to purchase drugs but to use services, such as COVID-19 tests, various screenings, or nutritional advice. and is mostly concentrated in declining prescription drug expenditures (-15%).

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

This 2021 update takes into account the impacts and influence of COVID-19 on workers’ wellness, access to services, and of course, the cost of health plans. The premium cost-growth between 2011 and 2016 was 20%, and between 2016 and 2021, 22%. The coronavirus pandemic has fast-tracked telehealth in the U.S.

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Doctor Burnout Levels Increasing as a Result of the Pandemic

American Medical Compliance

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%. in 2020, 43.9%

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Health Care Portals: Looking Beyond the Patients’ Horizon

Healthcare IT Today

The idea is similar to the open source SMART Platform , which I have covered several times starting in 2011. But the adoption of new technologies isn’t happening at the speed of, say, televisits, which were resisted for years only to be adopted en masse when the COVID-19 pandemic left no other option.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Telehealth can improve cancer care in rural areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The hospital is located off an interstate highway and is 30 miles from Reno, Nevada, and 100 miles from Sacramento, California," Heifetz and his coauthors explained in a paper published in 2011. Rural access to care via telehealth has become an issue of increasing importance, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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