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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. Health Populi’s Hot Points: It cannot be overstated that nurses in America are the most beloved profession in and outside of the health care industry. health care.

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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups. In 2013, family doctor contract services were piloted in rural areas before its nationwide implementation in 2016. Two years later, it became a national strategy to establish the GP system.

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

The AMA first conducted research with physicians and their views on digital health in July 2016. This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Some recent announcements offer almost the same level of overheating investment that the frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, noted in a Forbes. Home Care Assistance received $100 million in 2016. Why the froth? Homecare a sizable and growing market. hour to start at Walmart.

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Nurses Continue to Reign #1 in Honesty and Ethics; Healthcare Pro’s 4 of Top 5 in Annual Gallup Poll

Health Populi

The topline of this year’s annual Gallup Poll into honesty and ethics of professions finds nurses sustaining their reign as the top trusted profession in America. Engineers rank second this year after nurses, edging ahead of doctors and pharmacists who typically have ranked 2nd and 3rd each year in the past decade.

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Arkos Health, created by merger of 3 companies, sets sights on senior-focused telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Pittsburgh-based Curavi, which develops telehealth technology tailored for post-acute and long-term care settings, was launched in 2016 as a spin-off from UPMC (which will continue to be an investor in Arkos Health) and has built itself up with acquisitions since then. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Telehealth group practice offers free care to seniors nationwide during crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CCS Healthcare is a telehealth practice that has been delivering telehealth care extensively throughout Western Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2016. It delivers care to assisted living facilities through on-site visits performed by its physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians.