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How telecardiology helps the supply-demand mismatch and enhances care

Healthcare It News

What can telecardiology do to reduce unnecessary visits while ensuring high-quality care? I would break down the impact into a couple different areas: routine like ambulatory care visits and high acuity like ER visits. What happens when you blend telecardiology and brick-and-mortar care?

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How To Retain Employees And Combat Home Care Worker Fatigue

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In home care, turnover tends to beget more turnover. Home care agencies report average turnover rates of 76%, which challenges their ability to deliver high-quality services. Spetz suggested the same idea could be implemented in home care organizations. “It’s

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Pharmacies Garner Retail Health Love in the Pandemic – Update from J.D. Power

Health Populi

Power believes that pharmacies are “setting the stage for the transformation of ambulatory care delivery,” in their words. This is the 13th year of the study, which surveyed responses from 12,646 consumers who had filled a prescription in the 3 months prior to September 2020 through May 2021. This year, J.D. Power found.

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Longitudinal Care and Technology’s Role

Home Health Care

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime. The discussion took place on November 16, 2022 during the HHCN Home Care Conference in Chicago. Home Health Care News: Sundar, tell me a little bit about yourself what KanTime does, and just a synopsis of you in the business.

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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

And of course, in their favored brick-and-mortar hospital, ambulatory care center, clinic, or doctor’s office.

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Blood Pressure From the Wrist for the First Time – Welcome, Omron HeartGuide

Health Populi

Furthermore, let’s get real about health care costs, which of course, is a Health Populi /THINK-Health modus vivendi. The average cost of an ambulatory care visit is now nearly $500 , and an inpatient stay, about $22,000.

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The Cost of Treating Patients is On the Rise: PwC Goes What’s Behind the 2024 Medical Spending Numbers

Health Populi

Another key shift that serves as a medical cost trend deflator is the shift in site of care, to homes, community-based care locales, and outpatient healthcare settings such as ambulatory surgery centers. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,