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Digital Health to the Rescue – Improving Access to Specialized Care: A Discussion with Viveka Rydell-Anderson

Healthcare Law Blog

Improving Access to Specialized Care The digital revolution has made significant inroads into specialized healthcare services, which generally include care that is traditionally provided by specialists and is more difficult to access than primary care – for instance, mental health support, elder care, and certain diagnostic services, among others.

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Digital Capabilities & Emerging Tech Hold The Keys to Surviving Healthcare’s “Silver Tsunami”

HIT Consultant

Smarter, not harder Although still a nascent field, healthcare AI may also hold the key to meeting the growing demands for elder care as well as the challenges of maintaining supply in the face of staffing shortages. According to a 2022 meta-analysis of PubMed research, clinicians spend as much as 4.5

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

With the market downturns we’ve seen in 2022, that trend will shift. And the payer community sees remote patient monitoring as a critical component of SUD care. Elder care takes center stage and brings challenges: Coined the “gray tsunami,” approximately 10,000 people per day cross the Medicare eligible threshold.

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Health Provider News – April 1, 2022

Hall Render

Co-Immunity takes WBJ 2022 Inno Madness crown. Hundreds of Nebraskans Couldn’t Get Medical Care During Latest COVID Surge. Local Nursing Home Provider Advocates For Elder Care in D.C. The urgent care aftermath of COVID-19. Carson Valley Medical Center Hospital Foundation Names 2022 Board of Trustees.

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Health Provider News – November 18, 2022

Hall Render

AANA recognized as a winner of Modern Healthcare’s 2022 Healthcare Marketing Impact Awards. Rural Health Day brings attention to rural health care issues. Hawaii Hospital renovations in 2022 and beyond. Hawaii’s shortage of health care workers worsens. CALIFORNIA. 21,000 Kaiser nurses to strike.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

million for youth mental health care KENTUCKY Pike County nursing home officials release statement following loss of Medicare agreement Three Humana executives drop $11.2M

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Health Provider News – August 26, 2022

Hall Render

AHA files reply brief as district court considers 340B payment remedy for the remainder of 2022. Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care. Kentucky offering PACE elder care opportunities in limited counties, aimed at more care at home. ‘We simply just don’t have the people.’