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Consumers Are Financially Stressed – What This Means for Health/Care in 2025

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and 50% of births in rural communities), long-term care for millions of people, and a safety net for people who need emergency and urgent care, among other roles for keeping people healthy and productive at their workplaces which includes the heavy lift of home-caregiving and caring.

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

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Other maps detail live virtual visits (a large category with many players like Kareo, Updox, eVisit, Doxy.me), next-gen primary care (such as Oak Street Health, One Medical, and Parsley Health), and asynchronous virtual visits (with Zipnosis, 98point6, or Babylon, etc.).

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

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Other worrisome health care cost items follow down the line, including: 45% of U.S. adults concerned about long term care services for themselves. About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

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Hospitals, clinicians, long term care and other legacy health care system players must collaborate with the folks on the right side of the chart to provide continuity of care to people at home, if we are to realize the vision of connected health where people live.

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Finding Healthy Food and Things At Amazon Go In Chicago

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Those six segments are doctors, dentists, acute care, non-acute care (like long-term care and rehab), manufacturers, and other health care services.

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The Patient as Consumer – Updates from Fidelity on Retiree Health Care Costs ($172,500), Delaying Care, Tariff Impacts on Spending, and Roche Going DTC for Rx’s?

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Start with Fidelity Investments’ publication of the 24th annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate , calculating that 65-year old U.S. worker retiring in 2025 will expect to spend an average of $172,500 on health care and medical expenses through retirement. Note that this number does not income long-term care expenses.

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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

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The services address primary care, outpatient specialty consults, emergency or urgent care, hospital, and outpatient mental and behavioral health — capabilities already in place that need to scale. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.