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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

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It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Illinois permanently expands access to telehealth

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The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. "Illinois is now one of the first states in the nation to turn our emergency pandemic response into a permanent reality.

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Telehealth revenue could hit $20B in five years, say analysts

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revenue by 2027. The Digital Reshaping the Health Care Ecosystem publication said that virtual care is set to "become a staple" of healthcare delivery. A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S.

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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

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In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity. billion by 2027 , growing at a 12% CAGR from 2022. THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

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The first table arrays the growing range of digital health applications that consumers currently use. annually to 2027 when the projected market would be over $42 bn. CTA sizes the market at $29.5 bn in 2022, expecting growth of nearly 7.5% consumers have used telehealth, one in five for at least a year.

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The American Hospital Association Looks at Retail and Tech Health Care Disruptors

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markets by 2025 and planning for 1,000 by 2027. Like CVS Health, Walgreens is also expanding home care services and post-acute care, and specialty pharma to complement pharmacy operations. Walmart has long committed to health care, leveraging pharmacy as a “front door to primary care,” AHA describes.

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

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On the federal level, both the House and Senate have introduced bills to amend the Public Health Services Act last year. The Senate's Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act prescribes requirements on direct care RNs and others.

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