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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

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Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation.

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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

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A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. During the COVID-19 period of the study, researchers found that 30.1%

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Three in Five People 50+ in the US Will Likely Use Telehealth In the Future – An Update from AARP

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Last month, AARP published research on older peoples’ perspectives on their state of mental health and well-being. “While it is understandable to see a decline in mental health or emotional well-being during trying times, this is not a normal part of aging.

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

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TripleTree expects a “domino effect from virtual health adoption that will drive waves of demand across areas that complement virtual health and address other vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19,” the report forecasts. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

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“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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The Health of Older Americans in 2022 – Risks from the Pandemic, Isolation, and Social Determinants

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RAND and CMS research into seniors health disparities among Medicare Advantage enrollees. AARP’s assessment of telemedicine use among older people in the pandemic. Mental health trends among seniors. A CDC report on Long-COVID being undiagnosed or overlooked in many older adults.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

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I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. There’s a growing trend in direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies recently noted in JAMA in a viewpoint titled, “Prescriptions on Demand.” State level.