How Physician’s Can Humanize Virtual Care
In the 1930s, physician house calls represented 40 percent of all physician-patient encounters. By 1980, that number had fallen to less than one percent. But the “golden age” of the physician house call has come full circle—albeit in a virtual fashion.
It’s Time To Go All In On Telehealth
The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted telemedicine from an underused, value-added offering in employee benefits plans into the safest, most secure and sometimes only means of accessing health care. Now, as businesses move to reopen, employers need to resist reverting to the traditional brick-and-mortar health care model — and its escalating costs.
More than half of Americans would use virtual care, UnitedHealth Group survey finds
While the rush to telehealth adoption may have slowed a bit from its highs early on in the pandemic, the data show consumer interest in virtual care continues to be piqued. According to UnitedHealth Group’s fifth annual Consumer Sentiment Survey, a survey-record 56% said it is likely they would use virtual care for medical services. Link to original article
The Digital Health Boomerang
In a crisis, finding the “right” solution is much less important than finding the “right now” solution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical practices scrambled to quickly transition care out of the office, with some practices fully turning over to virtual strategies in the course of a single weekend — and they used whatever means available […]
Myongji Hospital moves beyond telemedicine to provide ‘virtual care’
Earlier this month, Myongji Hospital opened the Virtual Care Center, the nation’s first integrated online and offline healthcare service provider that aims to offer “newly integrated life healthcare in the contactless era.”
IS VIRTUAL EDUCATION THE CURE?
How virtual education may accelerate healthcare professional education during, and post, COVID-19 An essential component of healthcare professional education has historically been in-person and hands-on patient care and interaction under the supervision of clinical faculty. Yet the COVID-19 global pandemic has made face-to-face, hands-on clinical education challenging or impossible due to shortages or closures of […]
Access to Healthcare is a Human Right
Living during a pandemic can lead people to evaluate and re-evaluate long-held beliefs. They might discover that the everyday uncertainty strengthens some of their convictions and weakens others. If you ask people living with the threat of COVID-19 if they believe access to healthcare is a human right, many would respond in the affirmative. Anyone […]
Managed Healthcare Executive // How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Consumer Healthcare Behavior
Deloitte’s biennial Center for Health Solutions Survey of U.S Consumers shows a significant increase in virtual care visits versus pre-pandemic trends, and a reversal in consumers’ willingness to share health data following the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2018 to 2020, there was a decrease in consumers’ willingness to share their data in all the areas measured, except for healthcare research, which stayed steady.
McKinsey & Co // Telehealth: A quarter-trillion dollar post-COVID-19 reality?
COVID-19 has caused a massive acceleration in the use of telehealth. Consumer adoption has skyrocketed, from 11 percent of US consumers using telehealth in 2019 to 46 percent of consumers now using telehealth to replace canceled healthcare visits. Providers have rapidly scaled offerings and are seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients via telehealth than they did before.
Medical Daily // Meet the Oracles of Virtual Care
For the better part of the last five years, Courtney Stevens has given her telehealth elevator pitch to physicians and hospital administrators across Detroit. Like a telehealth evangelist, Ms. Stevens shared her good news about telehealth’s value and benefits. Anyone she could buttonhole heard the word about the number of small but successful telehealth programs that the Henry Ford Health …