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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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2024 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MedTech Breakthrough , a market intelligence organization focused on healthcare technology, today revealed the winners of its prestigious 8th annual awards program. IDgenetix

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Praying For The Survival of the NHS Will Not Be Enough To Save It

HIT Consultant

Again, you need only scroll through some of the local press articles to discover that waits are longer, levels of basic care poorer and patient experiences grimmer than ever before. Figures published by NHS Wales last week revealed more than 60,000 patients are waiting more than two years for treatment.

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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes

HIT Consultant

Hospitals looking to recover from the spiraling costs will need to significantly increase the number of procedures and operations performed and will aim to do so by moving patients through the system faster. Growing Acceptance of Telemedicine by Patients.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

adults that attended a video meeting did so for medical-related purposes — such as virtual health care, telemedicine, remote monitoring consultation. And just as healthcare and medical visits are morphing to omnichannel and digital front doors, so, too, is our collective experience at CES this year.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.