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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. Thus, 38% of people would delay an elective procedure and 27% would delay a diagnostic test in a hospital setting for at least six months.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

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Since the early phase of the pandemic, CVS Health expanded the use of Epic MyChart, the report explains, to deliver COVID-19 test results to patients as well as provide an on-ramp to patients seeking telehealth visits. Health care is omni-channel.

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While Virtual Care is “Table Stakes” in Health Care, Consumers Are Growing More Protective About Data-Sharing

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The most common home-test by far has been for COVID-19, with other kinds of DTC diagnostic testing still lagging well behind. Patients’ willingness to share their personal health information is eroding, varying by age group and race/ethnicity along with the kind of organizations folks would share with.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “First, do no harm” is a key M.O. in health care.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

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The important aspects of that is to provide care outside of bricks-and-mortar physician offices, to improve resource allocation, to demonstrate awareness of new technology, and to allow physicians to see more patients, among other underlying adoption drivers.

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Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

Health Populi

For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy. Roz really channels the scene in front of the pharmacy counter, from Q-tips to vitamins and tea.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

Health Populi

Blue Shield of California was well-positioned to support plan members at-home in the pandemic with this platform in place, recognizing peoples’ own personal crises in care and disrupted lives as the coronavirus crisis emerged in early 2020.