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How virtual-first can improve outcomes and make care more affordable

Healthcare It News

He points to greater accessibility, data integrity and consistency, improving healthcare outcomes, and greater affordability. How does a virtual-first approach to healthcare help hospitals and health systems enable greater accessibility to care? Likewise, data integrity and consistency help reduce errors in the patient journey.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

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In March, Signify Health acquired Caravan Health , which serves Medicare beneficiaries through accountable care organizations. "We are both building an integrated experience that supports a more proactive, preventive and holistic approach to patient care." In 2023, those ACOs will represent 700,000 patients.

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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

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"Our virtual urgent care experience, Virtual ExpressCare, has allowed us to better meet the needs of our patients where they are while reducing the impact of structural barriers they have in getting care," said Erfan Karim, senior director of mobile integrated health at New York City Health + Hospitals.

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Teladoc Health Launches Fully Integrated Whole-Person Care Experience App

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health launches a fully integrated healthcare experience through a new comprehensive digital application enabling personalized whole-person care to individuals. The fully integrated experience is available to specific clients starting this month, with full market availability later this year.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

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Apple has made steady progress over the years, successfully integrating its Health app with the EHR systems of dozens of providers across the nation. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Google Health shuttered in 2011 , and Health Vault closed its doors in 2019.

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GP federations: The silent partner in the NHS’s response to Covid and a key building block for future primary care strategy

Health Care Leader News

It’s high time GP federations are acknowledged for what they bring to the primary care table, argue Fiona Adamson and Andy Hilton from the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Federation Network. We are emerging from the biggest health crisis of our generation, but the real challenge facing primary care has barely begun.

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How behavioral healthcare can benefit from patient portals

Healthcare It News

Native telehealth integration was a rarity in patient portals not too long ago. After telehealth appointments , patient portals can grant access to information about self-care and healthy habits between appointments, and also can be a vehicle for reporting patient health indicators over time.