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This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobilehealth app. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.
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Now, to the news… and what it means… Start with Kroger and Hy-Vee, national grocery chains, both of which are expanding their healthcare reach via pharmacists’ licensure practice expansions, and new concepts of mobilehealth.
Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobilehealth/care, literally!
I left Las Vegas and #CES2025 with the hopeful sense that self-care is primarycare, and that the homes and the people who live in them are getting increasingly prepared and enabled for life- and work-flows to bolster our health, medical care, and well-being.
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Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobilehealth/care, literally!
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.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primarycare, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.
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