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Telehealth has been key for primary care, but clinicians are still feeling hopeless

Healthcare It News

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. A survey published by the Larry A.

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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. Mental health can be scaled with telehealth. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Aging Populations of Consumers and Physicians Underpin the Future Doctor Shortage

Health Populi

Another timely feature in the 2021 study is the Health Care Utilization Equity Scenario which provides a baseline looking at inequities in access to care. What’s underneath the sobering forecast is a combination of aging patients and aging doctors. The population under 18 years of age is expected to grow by 5.6%

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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

Health Populi

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

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Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured.

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

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

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We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians. An immediate effort was required to change all of our physician practices over to telemedicine visits right away. Population health is a broad concept that will increase in priority.