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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

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adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. The actual dollar costs grew from 1,102 in January 2000 to $4,097 in July 2021, according to this source.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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And with patients’ collective exposure to and experience with virtual care in 2020, demand for these services is persisting in and beyond 2021. .” The coronavirus and #StayHome mandates were the wild card that changed every normal forecast for telehealth utilization in 2020.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

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Five years later in 2021, three physicians from UCSF wrote about the importance of focusing on digital health equity, one slide of the health equity challenge, in JAMA — calling out the fact that, “health care is on the cusp of a digital transformation that could harm health equity or improve it.”

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And the Oscar Goes To….Power to the Patients!

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Health care price transparency is not only in the movies… it’s real, legislated in the law as of January 1 2021 , and now Hollywood is on the case in real life…not just in the movies. The post And the Oscar Goes To… Power to the Patients! Here’s the ad you can watch for yourself.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021.

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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

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physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Four in five U.S.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

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Power points out several granular perspectives to keep in mind as we design and implement omnichannel health care services: Two-thirds of U.S. consumers has accessed video telehealth services in the 12 months from June-July 2021. “Patients really like telehealth,” J.D.