Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In March of 2020, the world suddenly started using telehealth. After decades of dragging their feet, providers implemented video visits and messaging applications overnight, and the public responded enthusiastically.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Over a few years leading up to the COVID-19 emergence in early 2020, large employers had begun to adopt telemedicine in health plan benefits for workers, noted by the Business Group on Health’s membership surveys. KFF quantified firms offering telemedicine benefits, shown in Figure H here from the report.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Kim Webb, VP of Health Strategy at Siftwell Analytics Recent advancements in healthcare, such as telemedicine , automation, and clinical studies, have propelled the industry forward, unleashing new possibilities for fostering better patient outcomes. The CDC found that in 2020, 18.4%

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. economy shed millions of jobs — many tied to health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2022

Health care cost management is always on employers’ minds, in this round of the annual survey an especially acute pain point as the median health care trend increase in 2021 was 8.2% — a height not seen for many years.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2020

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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