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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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A 2025 Subaru Forester, a Year at U-New Mexico, or a Health Plan for a Family of Four: the 2024 Milliman Medical Index

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As an Index, the MMI combines several line items of healthcare spending to make up the overall number, and this methodology allows us to compare the rising costs of care for a family of 4 covered by a PPO year to year.

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

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But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

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There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

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My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter. And that involvement in social media is intimately woven with Stacy’s patient advocacy journey….for I like business and people.

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

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physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020. The poorly-conceived rollout of EHRs following the HITECH Act legislation and incentives, from design to implementation, led to a lot more insights about how technology can be well-intended and an epic fail for those who were meant to benefit from a shiny new thing.

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Telehealth Update from J.D. Power, Amwell, Cigna, GoodRx, and a Trio of Smart Doctors

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Across all providers, AmWell scored highest at 885, followed by Doctor on Demand with 879 points. Cigna, the highest-scoring payer-backed telehealth organization, racked up 874 points on the 1,000-point scale. Safety was the key driver for utilization at a rate of 46% of people using telehealth in 2020, and only 13% in 2019.