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State Public Option Plans Are Making Progress on Reducing Consumer Costs

Center for Health Insurance Reform

States remain motivated to adopt reforms that improve affordability and expand access to coverage for populations that still lack access to care. State public option–style plans are a key candidate for consideration.

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Generation Z is in mental health crisis – telehealth can help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The oldest members of Generation Z (born in 1997 or later) turn 26 this year, making them officially ineligible for coverage under their parents’ health plan. And those mental health statistics are quite important because of the mental health professional shortage in the United States.

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Everything Old Is New Again? The Latest Round of Health Policy Proposals Reprises Existing Ideas

Kaiser Health News

House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Association Health Plans. Giving workers money to buy their own individual coverage instead of offering a group plan.

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What Should You Think About When Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud?

Healthcare IT Today

Patty Hayward, General Manager, Health and Life Sciences at Talkdesk Consumers expect convenient and connected service from healthcare, increasingly at the level they are getting from other industries. For migrations, more attention should be paid to the legacy system than the future state cloud environment.

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Checking in on FDB Vela, the nation's second e-prescribing network

Healthcare It News

Healthcare IT News decided to check in on FDB Vela to learn more about the nation's second e-prescribing network and learn about its progress since launching three months ago. In general, it is never a good idea to have only one of anything in business because it tends to lead to higher costs and lower innovation.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020.

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Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

For the pharmacovigilance space, for example, this automation will begin as a tool for recommendations, suggestions or options for potential safety reports, but it will not fully replace human efforts particularly as there are concerns around data output consistency.