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The findings from India revealed an imminent shift toward prioritising remotecare, adopting digital health technologies and implementing sustainable healthcare practices. The report, which was in its sixth edition, surveyed almost 3,000 healthcare leaders across 14 countries from December 2020 to February 2021.
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doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. The rise of remotecare is explored in the second chart.
The purpose of the survey, which measured across all ages and specialties, according to AMA, was to investigate physicians' motivations and requirements for onboarding digital health technologies and integrating them into their medical practices. in 2022, with the largest growth in remotecare tools. in 2016 to 3.8
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