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Preserving Access to Telehealth: Today’s Policy Agenda of the American Telemedicine Association

Healthcare IT Today

In March of 2020, the world suddenly started using telehealth. After decades of dragging their feet, providers implemented video visits and messaging applications overnight, and the public responded enthusiastically.

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

Over a few years leading up to the COVID-19 emergence in early 2020, large employers had begun to adopt telemedicine in health plan benefits for workers, noted by the Business Group on Health’s membership surveys. KFF quantified firms offering telemedicine benefits, shown in Figure H here from the report.

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How Can Healthcare Bring Patients Back? A Preview of Our ATA Session, “Onward Together” in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Today kicks off the first all-virtual conference of the ATA, the American Telemedicine Association. I’ll be midwifing a panel this afternoon at 440 pm Eastern time, initially focused on how health care can garner patient loyalty. economy shed millions of jobs — many tied to health insurance coverage.

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

Health care cost management is always on employers’ minds, in this round of the annual survey an especially acute pain point as the median health care trend increase in 2021 was 8.2% — a height not seen for many years.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll

Health Populi

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing.

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Health Provider News

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Elizabeth Healthcare makes leadership team changes These are Louisville’s Health Care Heroes UofL Health wants to build new cancer center, needs $25 million from Kentucky General Assembly Grant focuses on health care access for children in Eastern Ky. Luke’s hospital to undergo $4.2