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Telemedicine M&A trends moving into 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Both specialize in telemedicine. telemedicine sector, merger and acquisition trends for telemedicine, main financial backers and investment dynamics, and short-term and long-term valuation trends. telemedicine sector and where do they stand? For large incumbents, Amwell and Teladoc Health are the undisputed U.S.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ? The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy.

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News from the Consumer Technology Association and Withings Further Demonstrates Private Sector’s Role in the Pandemic and Public Health

Health Populi

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Health is Everywhere, and Telehealth Is Health – And It’s Personal

Health Populi

If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth.

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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

Over the past decade the share of workers in plans with annual deductibles has grown from 59% in 2008 to 85% in 2018. The biggest cost problem is for people who are sick, Altman asserted: this is, as he observed, “the opposite of how a health system should work.”

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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Health Populi

” I ask in an essay published today on Crossover Health’s website titled Value-Based Care: Driving a Social Contract of Trust and Health. Warren Buffett wrote Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2008, asserting that, “Price is what you pay. The answer: embrace value-based care. Value is what you get.”

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. Ultimately, the more often a human can interact with an expert in human health, the healthier we will be as a population of humans. And this is just the beginning.