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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

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This year’s study was designed to compare current clinicians’ perspectives with those garnered in the 2016 and 2019 studies. 93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.”

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

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In the August 2020 National Poll on Heathy Aging , the University of Michigan research team found a 26% increase in telehealth visits from 2019 to 2020, March to June 2020 year-over-year. In May 2019, 14% of older patients’ health care providers offered telehealth visits, growing to 62% in June 2020 during the pandemic.

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Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019

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Osler had been a strong advocate for the physician-patient conversation to inform the doctor’s diagnostic acumen and improve patient outcomes. Cydney Roach EVP and and Lynn Hanessian Chief Strategist, both of Edelman, And winding up the meeting, Julie Murchinson, CEO, Health Evolution.

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Consumers Are So Over Their Paper Chase in Health Care Payments

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The overall takeaway for patients in this study is that health care is disconnected from consumers, in the words of the JPM/InstaMed report. “The data clearly show that when innovative options are implemented, growth and optimization soon follow.”

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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Most of these live video calls were also done through a service offered by consumers’ health care providers (doctors/clinicians), followed by services offered by insurance companies. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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The New DTC Channel Is…A Vending Machine (From Advil to Plan B)

Health Populi

I referred to that experience here in Health Populi several years ago when discussing health care access and transparency. Fast forward and we’re in the next-gen of direct-to-consumer models, with Lilly Direct and PfizerForAll launching programs that get up-close-and-personal with patients for medicines delivery and support services.

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Telehealth and Virtual Care Are Melting Into “Just” Health Care at HIMSS19

Health Populi

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments). Ro will expand in women’s health in 2019.