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American Hospital Association, Johns Hopkins and others launch pro-telehealth campaign

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This most recent effort has brought together a wide range of healthcare representatives, including: Adventist Health Policy Association. Alliance for Connected Care. American Telemedicine Association. Executives for Health Innovation. Health Innovation Alliance. Included Health. American Heart Association.

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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

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Patients’ postponing health care will continue for some, resulting in worse prognoses for them along with the need for providers to engage people where they are to bolster trust in their return to care sites. along with health disparities and inequities. Mortality will be up in the U.S.

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

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Note how little respect people feel from health care insurance companies, the government, and telecomms. The pandemic has accelerated many trends in and beyond health care. One is Americans’ growing understanding of health care as a civil right.

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Chronic Medical Conditions, Mental Health, and Equity On Employers’ Minds for 2022 – Employee Health in the Wake of COVID-19

Health Populi

The pandemic’s sharp reveal of health inequities and income inequality accelerated this trend. While most employers were already addressing health care access, financial equity, and racism in 2021, more will be looking at finance — pay equity, minimum wage, and other household income issues — in 2022.

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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. 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.

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million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.

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NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T in Indiana aging-in-place work.