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Tailoring Telehealth to Manage Back to Work and School Programs

mHealthIntelligence, 01-15-2021

Telehealth is helping businesses and schools bring people back to the workplace and campus, setting the stage for a more sustainable, long-term connected health strategy.

ANTHEM’S DIGITAL INCUBATOR SUPPORTS ENTREPRENEURS’ GROWTH THROUGH COLLABORATION

ThinkAnthem, 01-12-2021

Anthem’s vision of being the most innovative, valuable and inclusive partner is one that can’t be achieved by operating in a vacuum—a true partnership requires partners.

MANY PEOPLE MAY STICK WITH VIRTUAL MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Futurity, 01-11-2021

A new study suggests that more than half of people receiving mental health care will want to keep getting care virtually after the pandemic subsides.

Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News, 01-06-2021

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus intensified a hunger crisis last year, but 2021 could be worse

The Washington Post, 01-06-2021

The coronavirus pandemic unleashed cascades of suffering in 2020. People around the globe faced the threat of the virus, along with the devastating ripple effects of efforts to control its spread.  

How Community Fridges—’Freedges’—Help Feed America

Consumer Reports, 01-06-2021

The local efforts to address food insecurity have grown during the pandemic but don’t address underlying inequities.

Health plans embrace technology during the pandemic: a roundup of payer news 2020

MobiHealthNews, 12-30-2020

Through all of this year’s tumultuous ups and downs, one trend that has remained unstoppable – and has even accelerated – is the healthcare sector’s adoption of technology.

After 2020, telehealth use accelerates from ‘digital PPE’ toward mainstream care

FierceBiotech, 12-21-2020

The promise of a digital revolution in healthcare has been described as “just a few years away” for the better part of a decade, but the spread of COVID-19 in 2020 has spurred that transformation’s slow trot into a full gallop.