Healthcare It News

MAY 18, 2023

Driven by a desire for more convenient and affordable care, many patients focusing less on provider qualifications when seeking ambulatory care, according to a new Wolters Kluwer survey, which shows 58% of them opting first for retail options as pharmacists shifting to address consumer needs.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospitals and health systems can also achieve promotional success by packaging service lines (e.g., urgent care, acute care, primary care, ambulatory care, Telehealth, etc.)—especially People This encompasses everyone directly or indirectly involved in the hospital, health system, facility, or practice (e.g.,

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The solution provides another key tool to hospitals to better empower patients, combat staff burnout, provide more personalized care, and improve workflows. This approach complements rather than replaces traditional nurse-led rounding, enhancing patient engagement while providing hospitals with valuable insights for swift action.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2021, nearly one-half of hospitals and health systems ranked in Tier 2, with in Kaufman Hall’s words, “a thoughtful approach to becoming more consumer centric,” investing in digital infrastructure and programs across the enterprise.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

Patients want more accessible, more convenient healthcare options – and ambulatory care practices are rising to meet this major shift in where, when, and how people seek care,” said Bob Segert, chairman and chief executive officer of athenahealth.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

hospital margins will still be lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaufman, Hall & Associates project in their latest read on hospital finances. Kaufman Hall has been monitoring hospitals’ financial health in the coronavirus era since March 2020, month-by-month. hospitals could end 2021 with negative margins.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 26, 2024

MOSI, led by renowned spine specialists Dr. Sanjay Khurana and Dr. Michael Port, boasts a track record of performing complex surgeries with excellent outcomes at significantly lower costs compared to hospital settings. With Theater, we’ll usher in a new, disruptive era for specialty care.”

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

That re-shaping happened through experiences of the hospital’s clinical functions, caring behaviors, operations, and overall culture. COVID-19 indeed raised the bar for trust between patients and health care providers. strives to get through the pandemic. The economic recession in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. Here, we see that Latino/Hispanic and Black people were more likely to lack an ongoing relationship with a physician or primary care clinic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

As we start at this fairly nascent moment in the hospital-to-home movement and migration in the U.S., consumers found that only 5% of people had received in-home healthcare in the past year, while 89% of people received care at a doctor’s office or hospital/medical facility, in-person.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

health care industries fell to their lowest consumer satisfaction scores in two decades, we learn in the latest evaluation by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index report. As important as health became to humans at the base of our Hierachies of Needs , in the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

MAY 7, 2024

hospitals and 300,000 other providers to revolutionize healthcare delivery. Through integrated data and analytics, collaborative efforts, supply chain solutions, consulting services, and more, Premier facilitates superior care and outcomes at reduced costs. Notably, Suki received a remarkable rating of 93.2/100

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The patient experience of safety is illustrated in the first chart, showing sharp differences in how health consumers perceive safety in ambulatory care settings compared with inpatient hospital environments. of patients saying staff protected me well in ambulatory care compared with 68.2% points, 81.8%

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Medicare’s New Rural Emergency Hospital Designation — Considerations for States September 20, 2022 / by Rebekah Falkner and Sam Mermin. Congress established a new provider type, Rural Emergency Hospitals (REH) in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to address mounting concerns around closures of rural hospitals.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019. What is the hospital of the future look like? “What do we mean by ambulatory and outpatient care?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Transforming Healthcare Through Technology HCA Healthcare operates 188 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care, supported by a vast network of healthcare professionals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The challenges are particularly acute for hospitals and health systems, especially in the wake of increased activity related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A). According to healthcare consultants Kaufman Hall, hospital and health system M&A activity increased 23% in 2023 to 65 announced transactions.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Inpatient settings typically publish bacterial susceptibility data relevant to their hospital; however, antimicrobial susceptibility data are not widely aggregated and made publicly available in the outpatient setting. Without such data, clinicians must rely on their empirical knowledge to make antibiotic prescribing selections.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These self-service platforms will provide an integrated patient experience, with ambulatory care providers, in-patient hospital services, and other medical providers all able to connect on a single patient portal.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Eight in ten future retirees incorrectly believe that Medicare Part B (physician/ambulatory care) is “free” after paying into Social Security payroll taxes for at least ten years. For Medicare, two-thirds of future retirees wish they understood the health plan better.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’ve red-highlighted the three legacy health care industry that ACSI studies every year, showing that ambulatory care, health insurance, and hospitals garnered lower customer satisfaction than the top industries.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Sheila Bond, Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Healthcare is undergoing dramatic shifts, including increasing demands on caregivers, changes in care settings (particularly after the pandemic), and technology advancements, to name a few.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 19, 2022

Job growth in ambulatory health care services, physician offices, dentist offices and hospitals all outpaced home health care. Even nursing and residential care facilities reported greater employment gains, according to Altarum. Health care employment grew by a robust 69,600 jobs in July 2022,” the brief continues.

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CHQ Healthcare

MAY 10, 2023

She values partnership and quality so much that she made the hard decision to step down as CFO for Marshfield Hospital to pursue her passion to bring quality healthcare into her community. Barb Martin Executive Director of Ambulatory Care Selection & Onboarding Mercy Health, MO Barb is a strong leader full of heart.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Learn more and get free, practical tools to apply the Four Moments in acute care, long term care, and ambulatory settings: [link]. Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals. Access the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Wolters Kluwer released a summary of a study this week, to be published in full in 2020, surveying 1,000 consumers (232 of whom had been a hospital inpatient in the past year) and 837 health care providers (a mix of physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators). BLS calculated that general price inflation rose 1.8%

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2023

JR Finkelmeier, Business Leader, ECG Solutions at Philips Today’s hospital emergency departments (EDs) face formidable challenges as they strive to deliver high-quality care to more and more patients. Outcomes and resource utilization associated with readmissions after atrial fibrillation hospitalizations. healthcare system.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Note that breweries, personal care and cleaning products (THINK: J&J, P&G), TVs, cars, food and beverages rank the highest among U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The American Customer Satisfaction Index Insurance and Health Care Study 2020-2021 published today, recognizing consumers’ value for the quality of health insurance companies’ mobile apps and reliability of those apps. Outpatient care inched up from 73 to 74. The study was fielded between October 2020 and September 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

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., That’s history.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They also have a deep understanding of acute and ambulatory care, internal medicine, and other related subjects. Also, they can go on the sales side for guiding hospitals and practices about drug composition (chemistry) and effectiveness. Safety / Control of a drug. Dosage of a drug. Other pharmacy settings.

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Lexis Nexis

DECEMBER 22, 2021

ambulatory care-sensitive condition emergency room visits, readmissions, cost of care) Evaluate the impact of an intervention on a health outcome of interest: Readmission Rates Total Cost of Care Admissions ER visits Hospital acquired conditions Preventable Hospitalizations: Ambulatory Care?Sensitive?Emergency

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

To further benefit institutions’ fiscal health, care will move closer to patients — at home, in the community to lower-cost settings, and via hybrid channels of telehealth and virtual care outside of the hospital.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Clinician-Controlled Mobile App for Acute & Ambulatory Settings The new solution offers a variety of features to support busy healthcare clinicians throughout their clinic day, including summaries of key medical events, reminders of unfinished notes, and flexibility for post-visit dictation and text editing.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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