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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D.

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How CommonSpirit Reduced Medicare Spending by $136M

Home Health Care

Currently, CommonSpirit Health operates more than 1,000 care sites and 142 hospitals across 21 states. The health system’s home-based care arm CommonSpirit Health at Home is headquartered in Milford, Ohio. It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide.

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Medicare Coverage and Nursing Homes: A Comprehensive Guide

Etactics

Really the price of nursing home care depends on many different factors. In some cases, nursing home facilities have all-inclusive rates. Medicare Part A: Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care First let’s look at Medicare Part A in a general scope. This coverage is good for: Hospital inpatient care.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.

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What #CES2019 5 Tech Trends to Watch Mean for Health/Care

Health Populi

Whether for drug discovery, preventing hospital readmissions, making sound human resource decisions, or addressing population health challenges, Big Data are flowing into more cognitive systems to mine information and inform clinicians’ decisions at the point of care and researchers’ ongoing search for better treatments.

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Living in Digital Healthcare Times – Kicking off #DigitalHealthCES & #CES2020

Health Populi

Wearables and voice tech will continue to evolve and will enhance applications, for both medical care in hospitals and doctors’ offices, and increasingly for people recuperating at home post-surgery, for more DIY rehabilitation in the home post-stroke, and for virtual doctor exams at a distance — via, for example, the MedWand which will (..)