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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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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MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. The study polled U.S. By gender, more older women are interested in using telehealth compared with men.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

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MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? The firm asserts that, and I quote from the report, “telehealth is not replacing the physical office by any means.”

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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% These differing specialties are also using telehealth in different ways. Across all practices surveyed for the report: 58% said they used telehealth to diagnose or treat patients, 59.2%

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

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study.

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. The hearing came on the heels of the reintroduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Modernization Act in both the House and the Senate, which would safeguard access to coverage after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements.

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Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has published a 21-page guide intended to help providers with telehealth-based Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. The distant site for purposes of telehealth can be different from the administrative location. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Other advancements in digital health reimbursement include those for virtual check-ins, where a provider reviews a photo or video submitted by a patient, and e-visits, in which a patient checks in to a provider via an online portal. What does RTM mean for the progress of healthcare in the digital space, and the future of telehealth?

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In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Even with that moderate increase, this post’s title reports the study headline that workers’ health insurance premiums continue to grow faster than wages: cumulatively since 2010, family premiums grew by 55% and deductibles, 11%. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. Three months into the COVID-19 crisis, how have patients felt about these telehealth visits? The top reasons health consumers sought virtual care were for wellness check-ins and routine check-ups, among 41% of virtual care consumers.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

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. Care coordination and continuity.

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Over the past week, I’ve culled several studies and resources to divine a profile of the U.S. The post Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system.

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Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2023

This study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Oslo, Norway, identified over 1,600 scientific papers, narrowing the most rigorous and relevant to 23 papers focusing on virtual consulting and carbon emissions. million telehealth visits. million telehealth visits. million in gas costs.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Knowing the differences between real-time and store-and-forward telehealth is a matter of clinical appropriateness and will also have an impact on patient and provider experience. Once the practitioners receive the data, they can then study and analyze it as though they were in the clinic when it was collected.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals. Enhanced data privacy and data protection.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery. health citizens. health citizens.

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

Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2022

The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to manage challenging economic headwinds, shopping for technology is preparing people for their new normal — with household budgets and value in mind. 24% of U.S.

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How To Become a Telehealth Provider

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MARCH 30, 2021

From medical emergencies to ordinary exams, telehealth is shattering healthcare barriers all over the world. In addition to reducing costs and improving outcomes, virtual health can bring advanced care to underserved patients while relieving overworked providers. Here are 8 steps to becoming a telehealth provider.

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1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Here are the many reasons a woman living in America has for skipping or delaying health care, Deloitte illustrated in Figure 3 from the report. is costs — in this study, that out-of-pocket costs were seen as too high for the 21% of women skipping care, compared with 16% of men who did so.

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The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2020

Across all of the tech categories AARP studies, younger-elders between 50 and 59 tend to demonstrate higher levels of device adoption than people 70 and older. For this research, AARP worked with Ipsos to survey (online) 2,607 people ages 50 and over in June and July 2019.

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The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

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MARCH 4, 2021

That may be largely due to the fact that more younger people than older workers lost jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as losing health insurance. A recent TraunsUnion study found that more younger than older Americans’ health care behaviors shifted in the public health crisis. population).

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Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Note that potential for a second wave/outbreak was the close 4th ranking concern among CFOs, for this study which was published in 2020. Consider: chatbots, AI, triage-via-telehealth, and other digital investments that can address higher-cost sites and redundant services.

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How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study points to salaries of generalist and specialty physicians in the U.S. as in the U.K. and Germany.

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Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The last point on “new technologies” begs the question, “who” will fund innovation in health care as we emerge from the pandemic with national economics growing back at different paces, and employment in a very different context than pre-pandemic.

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Study: Neonatal Telehealth Reduces Transfers and Boosts Hospital Revenue

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Study authors said this corresponded to 67.2 Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. .

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How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

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JUNE 18, 2024

The study was fielded between December 2023 and February 2024. in terms of countries covered in the study. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. First, the staff shortage which is a worldwide phenomenon, from Australia to the U.S.

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SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hari Eswaran thanking those involved and HRSA’s Deputy Associate Administrator, Heather Dimeris, speaking about the current telehealth landscape. Dr. Bill England began by discussing the wide range of resources available at HRSA with his presentation, “Telehealth and Research at HRSA. The opening plenary focused on funding.

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Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on Americans’ mental health, with anxiety and depression growing as a side-effect to worries about the virus itself, the long Great Lockdown in much of the country, and the economic recession that has particularly impacted women and people of color.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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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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JULY 31, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Virtual cardiology care company Heartbeat Health is working with Caption Health , which applies AI to heart ultrasounds, to make scans and follow-up appointments available via telehealth.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

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APRIL 9, 2019

” These findings came from a study from the Winterberry Group on “the evolving role of audience insight,” conducted in partnership with the IAB Data Center of Excellence and issued on March 5, 2019.

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Telehealth Success Variables

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 5, 2018

Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated in telehealth and are keen on closing the gap.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reimbursement is also key to telehealth program growth.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. ’ So, we undertook a landmark study to elevate the perspectives of these medically disenfranchised individuals and reveal how this long-standing inequity impacts their relationships with the healthcare system as a whole.”

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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The data tell this story: two-thirds of patients who self-report their health as excellent have low to no SDoH risk. Conversely, nearly one-half of patients who self-report poor-health are at high SDoH risk. Access to health care services is a core social determinant for health, and there are many reasons people can miss appointments.

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Increasingly, technology is playing a role in patients’ relationships with pharmacies, whether for e-prescribed refills, apps enabling telehealth visits (including mental health therapy sessions), or live chats with licensed pharmacists for real-time advice.

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Telehealth used less in disadvantaged areas, Health Affairs study finds

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

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Thinking About Telehealth Through the Lens of Real Estate – Listening to JLL

American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

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

In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Telehealth billing guide highlights complexities of use

A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

In the Past Ten Years, Workers’ Health Insurance Premiums Have Grown Much Faster Than Wages

Most Virtual Care Consumers, Satisfied With Visits in the COVID Era, Expect It for Future Care

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

Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Virtual Health Care Can Reduce Carbon Emissions: the Environmental ROI on Telehealth

Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

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

How To Become a Telehealth Provider

1 in 2 U.S. Women (“The Bedrock of Society”) Self-Ration Care – the Latest Deloitte Findings

The Pace of Tech-Adoption Grows Among Older Americans, AARP Finds – But Privacy Concerns May Limit Adoption

The Economics of the Pandemic Put Costs at the Top of Americans’ Health Reform Priorities

Rebuilding Resilience, Trust, and Health – Deloitte’s Latest on Health Care and Sustainability

How We Spend Versus What We Get: America’s Healthcare Spending Makes for Poor Health

Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

Study: Neonatal Telehealth Reduces Transfers and Boosts Hospital Revenue

How to Get Better Care to More People? Address Burnout, Bridge Insights, Embed Sustainability – the Philips Future Health Index 2024

SEARCH 2020 – Day Two

Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

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

Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Telehealth Success Variables

Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

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