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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

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“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

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Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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

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One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

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Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. This relates to another key data point that illustrates patients’ shift to a health consumer mindset: their willingness to seek care in lower-cost settings based on costs.

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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

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.” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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

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Virtual care has touched most families around the world, and providers quickly pivoted work-flows to the phone, to broadband, to portals, across the continuum-of-care beyond emergent care, urgent care, and dermatology. Over a year since the pandemic emerged in the U.S.,