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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. Without a doubt, telehealth decreases waiting times.

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How BioPharma Can Play in Consumers’ Retail Experience Expectations

Health Populi

While most patients have had some experience using digital tools in their medicines-life-flows, one-half said they had to use more than one digital health platform, lacking a more integrated omnichannel approach. households earning over $180,000 a year are now worried about medical bills in America. And even 40% of U.S.

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

Health Populi

The Propel study’s insights build on what we know is a growing ethos among health consumers seeking to take more control over their health care and the rising costs of medical bills and out-of-pocket expenses. That includes oral health and dental bills: 2 in 5 U.S.

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

Health Populi

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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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

Fully one-half of employees would be keen on apps to help find a doctor or care when and where needed, and just about 1 in 2 workers would like an app that helps find expert physicians anywhere in the world (think: specialists via telehealth) as well as electronic and portable personal health records.

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As Workers’ Healthcare Costs Increase, Employers Look to Telehealth and Wearable Tech to Manage Cost & Health Risks

Health Populi

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As workers bear a greater financial risk for covering their and their families’ healthcare costs, how to bend that cost curve downward? Adoption of wearable tech and mobile health apps in companies’ wellness programs is expanding. employers ask.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

Health Populi

Some of the key behaviors Deloitte gauged to measure health care consumerism were, Increasing use of technology and willingness to share personal health information. Interest in and use of virtual care/telehealth. The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied.