Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2025

The leadership team at BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG) has highlighted home-based primary care as a major business opportunity in the near future. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, BrightSpring delivers care to patients in the home and in the community. She succeeds Jim Mattingly, effective March 4.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2025

If the aim is a strategic, enterprise, long-term reimagination of the business, it must be led from the top of the organization: The CEO should be responsible and accountable to create a compelling, clear vision for the direction and collaborate with their leadership team to gain support for the new direction across the entire organization.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

"Rather than treating healthcare as a series of isolated interactions, this increased interoperability will bundle primary care, mental health services, fitness, nutrition and even social support to provide consumers with a holistic view of their health," she said.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Home Care remains deeply fragmented, disconnected and too difficult to navigate,” Proffitt said Wednesday. “It It accounts for about $150 billion of the health sector today, and we expect this figure to climb substantially by the end of the decade. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum acquired LHC Group last year for $5.4

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2025

"Separately, as payer contracts evolved, Baptist Health wanted to ensure no patient was left behind, as some primary care physicians would now be considered out of network," Miri explained. They can focus on the wellbeing of their family member in treatment rather than readmission paperwork.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , a leading virtual healthcare provider delivering affordable, high-quality primary care, today announced its launch into the durable medical equipment (DME) market with its first partner, Aeroflow Healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In March, Signify Health acquired Caravan Health , which serves Medicare beneficiaries through accountable care organizations. times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. In 2022, Signify Health clinicians are expected to serve 2.5

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p3care

JANUARY 8, 2025

In this sum, clinical services and physicians account for 23.4 %. Similarly, primary care or independent physicians also add up to an enormous amount of revenue which includes patient admissions, medical tests, and subsequent treatments. It reflects a great influence on the economic health of the practice.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 27, 2023

has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center. What You Should Know: – The U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 13, 2022

Historically, CMS models have focused on enabling providers to increase accountability for patients’ health through ACO condition-specific models and payer-supported models like Medicare Advantage. A primary care-led delivery model with enhanced virtual care and clinician access, supported by high-risk clinics.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So, a patient-centred view of care needs to take into account the patients' values, their needs, and their express wishes. Once you have this framework in place, you can then expand that across larger populations, and the more hospitals you have engaged in value-based care model, the better the success will be.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

What You Should Know: Summer Health , a text-based service for parents to get answers to urgent needs from pediatricians, is expanding into primary care. Improving Access to Medical Professionals Summer Health’s care teams are expanding their services to benefit thousands of parents across the nation in the following ways: 1.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Strengthening Referral Pathways: While physical therapy remains outside primary care’s traditional scope, patients in many states have direct access without requiring a referral.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Care and treatment options for patients living with Alzheimer’s, dementia and Parkinson’s are often fragmented and limited and many primary care physicians feel unprepared to meet increased patient | Harmonic Health launched to bridge gaps in care for dementia patients by bringing together advanced technology and an expert care team to partner with (..)

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Health Care Leader News

JUNE 21, 2021

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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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

"When data is missing or of lower quality, the solution can leverage advanced data science algorithms to account for the missing pieces and help identify anomalies," he explained. Outcomes and accountability are more critical than ever.

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Healthcare Success

MARCH 10, 2025

Sometimes anymore, it can be, well, I'm not going to get all of their, I'm going to say, you know, all their orthopedic referrals from this group of primary cares, okay, but I can niche this because I'm differentiated. My likelihood of getting referrals from their primary care physicians is going to need to be.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Both started as a limited primary care service offering targeting internal employees, presumably as a precursor to opening the offering to the public at some point. Indeed, many are.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 19, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new voluntary model Tuesday – centered around primary care providers – that could offer home-based care providers more opportunity to dive into risk-based care. They fill the gaps, and are able to see and treat patients where primary care providers cannot.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

We provide virtual-first care for all of MVP Health Care's members in New York and Vermont, including Medicaid and Medicare as well as ACA members, amongst others. Several Fortune 500 companies also trust Galileo as their virtual primary care solution for employees. "She had recently moved to the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Primary care and other healthcare specialties tend to have episodic patient encounters. We see our primary care providers once per year for a check-up and maybe one other time because we're sick. All of this can be completed through their portal account. This tends to make the relationship transactional.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

' "If the patient chooses the virtual option, they are walked back to the self-service kiosk, log into their MyChart account on the tablet, and be placed in line with our group of virtual urgent care providers," he continued. "Documentation is done via Epic, as well. No scanned documents.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"Virtual ExpressCare as a key value driver for NYC Health + Hospitals aims to serve episodic care needs, avoiding higher cost hospital utilization, and to connect patients into primary care," Karim noted.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

"Many others have contracted this service out to a third-party vendor, which I believe sacrifices patient care quality and safety," he added. "Early in the pandemic, it became apparent that patient success with our virtual health services was high in patients who already had a portal account.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Patina Health – a primary care startup focused on delivering care in the home – announced a Series A funding round of $57 million early Tuesday. We’ve used the research we’ve done to reinvent primary care from the perspective of older adults, backwards. And I just think these plans see this as the future.”. “At

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

"By providing patients with an automated care navigation assistant when they feel more vulnerable, we have been able to qualify patients early and direct them to the right level of care: telemedicine, primary care and pediatrics, or the emergency room," he continued.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom. We have since transitioned all synchronous “virtual visit” telehealth services to Zoom.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2025

What You Should Know: – Christian Healthcare Ministries (CHM) , the nation’s longest-serving health cost sharing ministry, announced today its partnering with leading tech-enabled virtual primary care physician group HealthTap to help combat rising health care costs.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 10, 2024

Meanwhile, nearly 74% of Americans seeking help turn to their primary care physician rather than a mental health professional. But in the primary care setting, depression is often overlooked, with misdiagnosis occurring in approximately 50% of cases. The financial burden of depression on U.S. What are they?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 29, 2025

Telehealth partnerships open doors for underserved communities The factors that make in-office visits inconvenient for some patients make them virtually impossible for others, especially for those in underserved communities where a lack of healthcare options can force patients to opt out of the care they need.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2024

As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work. With physicians burnt out by spending more and more time in the electronic health record, can this technology be applied to other departments outside of the exam room?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago "Phase two involved creating online scheduling for new patients seeking primary care and activating new and return direct online scheduling for specialty departments," he continued. 91% of patients have logged into their portal account within three months of an encounter.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The DOJ alleged that Oak Street paid kickbacks to those agents in exchange for the recruitment of seniors to its primary care clinics. Health care providers that attempt to profit from kickbacks will be held accountable,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 20, 2025

Aledade collaborates with over 300 health centers across the United States, supporting primary care organizations of all sizes in diverse rural, suburban, and urban settings. All eight of Aledade’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) exclusively composed of health centers achieved shared savings.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Further, Mass General Brigham is working with its EHR vendor, Epic, to use AI to summarize vast patient charts based on different clinical contexts, such as a new primary care physician wanting to get an overview of a new patient. Because when we think about transparency and accountability, it's what is the technology doing?

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