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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

will reach $845 million based on the forecast of the Consumer Technology Association, convening the annual 2021 CES this week in a virtual format. CTA unveiled the 2021 key trends we’ll see presented this week through the online exhibition hall and in educational sessions on the CES.Tech platform. For the U.S.,

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How Virtual Care is Morphing into “Just” Healthcare – my post in Medecision Liberation

Health Populi

Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed). This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

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

Health Populi

The report lays out the many components of the virtual health ecosystem in three broad areas covering the continuum of care: Triage and intake, the front-door of routing patients to the most appropriate pathway for their symptoms. Telehealth is the sub-set of delivery methods and tools used to deliver health care services.

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GoodRx Finds Optimistic Outlook for Telehealth Among Both Providers and Patients

Health Populi

Most health care providers who were using telehealth by August 2021 felt optimistic about virtual care in a study from GoodRx on The State of Telehealth. provider survey, which was complemented by a poll conducted among 1,024 health consumers for the patient perspective in September 2021.

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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Health Populi

consumer spending rose from December 2021 to January 2022 for education, telecom, auto leases and loans, health care, car insurance, gas, groceries, health insurance, and public transportation. in December 2021 to 5.7% across the U.S.; more granularly, $4.83 in California, and $3.85 in Illinois, and a low of $3.23 in Arkansas.

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HHS-OIG Fines Two Healthcare Providers for EMTALA Violations

The HIPAA Journal

In May 2021, a patient presented at the Baptist ED via ambulance after being found unresponsive in a parking lot. In May 2021, a third patient presented to the ED who had plans to overdose. Baptist ordered a psychiatric consultation, and staff performed a suicide risk assessment and categorized the patient as high risk.

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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

Minority Nurse

GPA) in 2019 and, after receiving improved Bluetooth processors in 2021, sent out more than 400 applications with little result. Nosek thought she ’ d have surgery and be able to return to work quickly, but her path proved challenging. She obtained her MSN in nursing education (with a 4.0

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