Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

By growing this aspect of her practice, she has been able to stay connected with patients in a way that transcends geographical boundaries, ensuring they receive the continuity of care they need. Globally, the aging population is increasing the chance of developing this wide range of illnesses – accounting for almost 1.5

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Patient Demographics and Booking Trends Women comprise the majority of Zocdoc users, accounting for two-thirds of bookings. Mobile bookings dominate, particularly for urgent care, mental health, and primary care. Urgent care, dermatology, and psychiatry are the fastest-growing specialty groups.

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Yet a lot of times when we take over accounts from clients, like they'd had SEO before, it might be something that was really great a decade ago, but really the fundamental foundation is no longer makes sense. And I believe you said the other day, stop thinking less about keywords, more about queries and.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While consulting at the University of Texas Medical Branch on telemedicine for inmate care, Dr. Sanders met Dr. G. Byron Brooks, an electrical engineer and medical doctor. Telehealth Revolution Evolves to Virtual Care, Providing a Solution to Modern Healthcare Challenges The rest is history. Kilimanjaro.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Telehealth is a very broad, umbrella term that encompasses any and all care that a doctor or clinician provides without an in-person office visit. – Urgent care issues like colds, coughs, and stomach aches. RPM can provide an ongoing sense of responsibility and accountability since there is daily interaction.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

What began as an explosion of patent demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection surges that continue to test the resiliency of the healthcare system to this day. It’s precisely what the doctor ordered. Healthcare is beginning to embrace this new modality.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is crucial, especially as medical errors account for more than 250,000 deaths annually in the U.S. If you are a complicated patient, there is a higher risk of a doctor not having all of the data – and it should be the opposite,” said Dr. Doug McKee, chief medical information officer at Health First.

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A large part of how we plan our marketing strategies involves taking into account predicted trends for the upcoming year. . Doctor-led groups are also rising to compete. Looking back at my predictions for 2020 , I’m intrigued by the speed at which some of these projections materialized. .

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 6, 2021

What does this mean for healthcare websites? . “…how patients or doctors perceive the experience of interacting with your web pages will now affect your rankings in Google.”. In all the years of doing this, we see clients wasting their investment and not getting the proper attention to their accounts.”. COVID-19 & Telehealth.

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Health Care Success

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective local SEO for doctors, hospitals, and health systems requires a complete understanding of the healthcare consumer’s needs and wants and Google’s ever-changing algorithm. What is Local SEO for Doctors, Hospitals, and Health Systems. If not, you’re missing out on a high-intent audience ready to convert. .

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Healthcare Leadership

JULY 31, 2023

We still go see the local doctor when we get sick. While I would argue that going to see the local “doctor” who might give you some unknown, untested tincture to drink with your mead isn’t quite the same as going to the local Urgent Care Clinic to get a blood test done, my friend’s comments got me thinking about innovation in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re looking forward to hearing about the acceleration of technology-driven performance and accountability in healthcare. In particular, the pandemic has underscored that it’s time for greater investment in virtual care and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) to provide better, more transparent patient care at home and between doctor visits.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Thomas is the Chief Growth Officer at GenieMD and host of The Virtual Shift: Reimagining the Delivery of Care. His expertise is virtual care. As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?…

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

This partnership will integrate Carrum Health’s value-based Centers of Excellence (COE) program into apree health’s industry-leading ecosystem partner network, allowing employers to provide their employees access to more affordable surgical and cancer care from the top 10% of doctors and providers across the country.

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Etactics

JULY 8, 2021

Mega-mergers across the industry force patients to flock towards urgent care facilities and retail clinics while practices become an afterthought. As a patient, if you wanted to switch doctors and visited a website that was reminiscent of either the examples above, you’d probably click out of it immediately.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 1, 2020

Eventually, I started doing analytics work related to urgent care clinics, which is when I started getting interested in healthcare. My grandfather was a pharmacist and my father was a doctor, so I guess healthcare was always in my blood. That’s what led me to Health Dialog.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

While Sinovac primarily addresses the Chinese market, Sinovac has expanded globally and produces the most widely utilized COVID vaccine, accounting for approximately 40% of all COVID vaccine doses administered worldwide. Carbon has some lofty ambitions.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And that's sort of important to the narrative today, I think, because had I not had that sort of pit stop for 5 years, and where we were, you know, in our doctoral seminars, like inventing value, based care models and testing them and kind of just going back and forth with other students. I probably wouldn't be doing what I am today.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

While Millennials were least likely to visit a doctor’s office in the past year, they had the most likelihood of making a visit to a mental health provider, to seek chiropractic care, urgent care, and acupuncture — all services delivered outside of traditional medical home settings.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community. It all started with, in Le’s words, the image of “the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls.”

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

NCQA seeks public feedback on proposed new measures, changes to existing measures and measure retirements,and NCQA acknowledges that the health care policy environment is rapidly evolving at this time.Reviewers are asked to submit comments to NCQA in writing via the Public Comment website by 5:00 p.m. (ET), ET), Thursday, March 13.

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, according to our internal data, nearly 12% of patients who call our nurse line with a pre-intent of visiting an urgent care facility were appropriately redirected to visit an emergency room instead. Medicaid accounted for almost one third of callers (32%) while Medicare patients use the service the least (21%).

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 13, 2024

If you’re performing surgery, obviously, you’re burning through a lot of supplies, you’re using anesthesia, you’re using all sorts of things that maybe your average urgent care clinic won’t need. We do that by showing doctors what they should be paying for the supplies that they use on a regular basis.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In fiscal year 2024, we've had 4,689 RN-facilitated, digital device-enabled, level 2-5 encounters hosted at five regional outreach multi-specialty telemedicine clinics; 49,992 direct-to-patient home appointments; and 54,681 total telemedicine visits accounting for approximately 16% of total outpatient visits. Our physicians need options.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Worries about health care costs, now crossing over into higher-earning households, underpins the growth of consumerism. This will continue to put pressure on the margins and business models of hospitals and doctors’ practices.

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