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Envisioning the delivery of true primary care telehealth

KevinMD

Before the pandemic, telehealth seemed to be a way to deliver urgent care for acute issues to a select group of tech-savvy patients. Almost overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted how we deliver primary care to patients.

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The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. Healthcare IT News interviewed Berg to gain some of his telehealth and mobile health expertise. To answer that, we need to divide people into two groups. COVID-19 is an enormous factor.

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Black surgical patients used telehealth more often in late 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Digital literacy, access to technology, and the ability to effectively communicate with providers through virtual platforms have now become critical social determinants of health," they added. The data emerging from telehealth patterns amid the pandemic has suggested that virtual care use may be a complicated issue.

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A Profile of Health Consumer-Generations’ Use of Digital Health – Rock Health Takes Us Through the Ages

Health Populi

The youngest cohort of health citizens, Gen Z, are Wellness Explorers, Rock Health coins, most owning a wearable or connected device and two-thirds tracking at least one health metric that way — menstruation ranking first, followed by weight and physical activity.

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Closing the Chasm Between Patients and Clinicians With Digital Health Tools – Some Health Consumer Context for #HLTHUSA

Health Populi

PwC’s research found that many consumers would prefer a virtual care visit over an in-person doctor visit, varying by age group: More younger patients under 35 years of age prefer virtual care compared with people over 55 — but even among older people in the U.S.,

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Survey: Telehealth on the rise in New Zealand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The Telehealth Leadership Group’s most recent stocktake questionnaire was sent to all 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) in October 2018.

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The Growth of DIY Digital Health – What’s Behind the Zeitgeist of Self-Reliance?

Health Populi

With heart health now table stakes for wearable technology sensors, smartwatches mainstreaming for many medical and wellbeing tracking issues with more sensors embedded on the wrist (and on the hand within smartrings), health tracking is no longer relegated to an elite group of people affiliating with the Quantified Self movement.