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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. As TT notes, the rise in home-based care is a déjà vu back to health care delivered in the 19th and early 20th century before the hospital-industrial complex as we know it existed.

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Think Quintuple Aim This Week at #HIMSS25

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Telehealth and remote health monitoring, virtually “seeing” and treatment patients in lower cost settings (such as the home) is one key strategy for value-based care. ” That was one area of health equity that became evident in early 2020. diabetes, obesity, blood pressure).

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

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Their ability to recover in 2021 and 2022 as the national economy heals and again grows will be a crucial time period to strategic plan and executive for a future that is not defined by a traditional inpatient bed.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

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Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. The percent of first-time tech purchases will increase “considerably” from 2021, on average 8 percentage points.

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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. Mental and behavioral health. Specialty care.

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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

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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. Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels.