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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

Overall, company leadership is more bullish on digital health tools compared with workers who index relatively lower than management — by just a bit. People are seeking a “pro-health” culture, understanding that the workplace can be a place of stress or relief/support.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

Packing more billable work into doctors’ time. This idea was cited by Dr. Ali Parsa, who is CEO and Founder of Babylon , an AI-based analytcs company in health. In our mostly fee-for-service model, visits are still what doctors get paid for. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass. Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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While Costs Are A Top Concern Among Most U.S. Patients, So Are Challenges of Poverty, Food, and Housing

Health Populi

health care system every other year. adults ages 27-75 who had seen the same doctor at least once in the past year. 42% of Americans could afford a bill of $500 or less before they would have financial issues; 22% could afford between $501 and $2,500; and, 37% could afford more than $2,500 to pay for an unexpected health issue.

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Immigration Bureaucracy Threatens 11-Year-Old’s Spot on Transplant Lists

Kaiser Health News

She had a birth defect called volvulus , a twisted small intestine , and doctors saved her as a baby by removing most of the organ. It’s a category in which the government says it will defer trying to deport someone so they can deal with a severe illness. That chaotic reality is threatening an American girl’s life.

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. By Timothy Bonis. Marino et al.,

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

and more health citizens getting their first jabs, there’s growing optimism in America looking to the next-normal by, perhaps, July 4th holiday weekend as President Biden reads the pandemic tea leaves. But that won’t mean Americans will be ready to return to pre-pandemic health care visits to hospital and doctor’s offices.

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