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

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The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. Data makes health care smarter in 2021, especially for chronic conditions. Cancer Needs a Better Roadmap.

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The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021

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But like a déjà vu all over again, annual health care costs for a family of four enrolled in a PPO will climb to over $28,000 in 2021, based on the latest 2021 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). Looking at Figure 3, the table on average person cost trends to 2021, we see that costs grow for every service category in 2021.

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NCLEX to Be Changed as Fail Rates Climb

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in 2021, depriving the industry of thousands of potential providers. Experts estimate that about 20% of those who graduate from nursing school aren’t passing the test, which means they won’t be able to enter the nursing profession. The pass rate fell from 88.2% in 2019 to 82.5% The Next Gen NCLEX is set to launch on April 1.

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“Holy Grail” of Cancer Detection Can Predict Tumors Over a Year Before They Appear

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A new cancer detection tool known as the “holy grail” of early detection is currently being tested in hospitals throughout the U.K., It is the first pan-cancer blood test, according to Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs and chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, an Indian firm that first developed the test in 2021. “We

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2020 Was Our Year of COVID; 2021 Will Be Our Year of Vaccines and Excess Deaths in America

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That’s such welcome news and a positive outlook for a healthier 2021. The post 2020 Was Our Year of COVID; 2021 Will Be Our Year of Vaccines and Excess Deaths in America appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. With a third vaccine approved by the FDA for licking COVID-19, brought to market by Johnson & Johnson, the U.S.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

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Wherever you live in the world touched by the coronavirus pandemic, you felt (and were) stress-tested. In this year’s 2021 annual report by Deloitte into Connectivity & Mobile Trends, their report details How the pandemic has stress-tested the crowded digital home. Both you were, and your home was as well.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

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adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report. In 2021, smartwatch adoption exceeded wearable activity fitness tracker market penetration, both around one-third of U.S. Household penetration of smartwatch ownership grew 12%, whereas activity tracker growth was fairly flat between 2020 and 2021.

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