COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries
We estimated excess mortality in Medicare recipients in the United States with probable and confirmed Covid-19 infections in the general community and amongst residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities. We considered 28,389,098 Medicare and dual-eligible recipients from one year before February 29, 2020 through September 30, 2020, with mortality followed through November 30th, 2020.
3 Surprising Trends in Seniors’ Telemedicine Use During the Pandemic
The explosive growth in telemedicine has been hailed by some as an important “silver lining” of the Covid pandemic, if such a thing can exist for such a vast tragedy. In the first terrifying weeks of the pandemic, most people did not go to their doctors’ offices for medical care and telemedicine quickly evolved from […]
New AI Analysis Pinpoints COVID-19 Mortality Risk in Medicare Population
Findings from Study of 28 Million People Identifies 61 Percent Increase in Deaths Due to COVID-19, Reinforcing the Importance of Reducing Exposure and Expanded Vaccination for this Population.
What’s Next for Virtual Care?
By Josh Gray As is now well known, COVID has ignited the telemedicine industry, packing 5 – 10 years of industry growth into three weeks. As the pandemic picked up steam in March, many people relied exclusively on telemedicine for care. Medicare removed obstacles that had long limited growth, relaxing regulations that prohibited the provision of telemedicine across […]
Health Care is Not Getting Back to Normal
By Josh Gray In the first month of the COVID-19 epidemic, I regularly heard the phrase “when things get back to normal.” I don’t hear that any more. In health care, more people are realizing that we will “get over” the coronavirus epidemic in gradual increments lasting years and that the health care system we […]
Finding Hope During the COVID Epidemic
The fight to contain COVID-19 is going to be long, difficult, and painful. As CEO of a healthcare startup where hard work is required even in normal times, I have to remind myself and my colleagues that we need to pace ourselves. I wish we just had to run one marathon. I think we’ll have to run […]
