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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

Primary care providers and specialists embraced virtual care, thanks to a combination of easy-to-use technologies, temporary regulatory flexibilities, and increased demand from patients. The results have been transformative.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Their employer pays for a level of care and services above which Quincy spends additional funds for services they value. Quincy’s community appreciates that everyone has access to primary and tertiary care, most of which starts with virtual services delivered at home or work or on-the-go.

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Remembering The Forgotten Patients

Healthcare Leadership

With the changes we have seen from the pandemic, segments of patient populations are facing: Disruptions in primary coverage. Primary care reduced availability – face-to-face & difficult transition to telehealth for many based on internet access, education, comfort/trust, and fear. Income disruptions.

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Shift Happens

Geek Doctor

Similarly, if the ML-based model has been trained on a patient dataset for a medical specialty practice or hospital cohort, it’s likely that data will generate misleading outputs when applied to a primary care setting.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

key detractors from good performance on these measures include: Lack of universal access to care for all Americans (the Fund points out that 30 mm people in the U.S. Less adequate primary care “backbone” with large gaps in PCP coverage throughout the United States. bn for on-demand care by July 1st, 2021.