Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For years now, home-based care providers have been vocal about shifting more to value-based care. Home care providers, in particular, have been taking greater steps to make this a reality. One home care company that exemplifies this is the Dallas, Texas-based Outreach Health.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Tech-enabled home healthcare provider Speedoc has tied up with Parkway Shenton, the primary care arm of IHH Healthcare Singapore, to expand care options for patients. The company continues to seek collaborations with both private and public healthcare providers to expand its mobile home care model.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2022

Florida Blue Medicare — the state’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan — is collaborating with Emcara Health to offer eligible members access to home-based primary care. The collaboration reflects how payers are increasingly turning to in-home care organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for establishing care-at-home models.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

So the vast majority of consumers look to doctors to help them achieve their health goals, the second chart illustrates. This is followed by feeling sick, prompting people to schedule time to see the doctor for more urgent (non-preventive) issues. Two in three consumers have made a health care goal to reduce their healthcare costs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals 171

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models. And of course, in their favored brick-and-mortar hospital, ambulatory care center, clinic, or doctor’s office.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Most consumers using digital health devices felt more trust in the technology when coupled with doctors’ office reviews — another lens on the importance of trust-equity between patients and physicians. Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

Wall Street has largely focused on CVS’s efforts to add primary-care practices and doctors to its payroll, though executives have also discussed their ambitions to expand its in-home health presence. agreed to buy the primary-care clinic operator for about $3.9 B last month. B last month.

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Primary Care Home Care Medicare Doctors 97

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Most of the time people get care in a clinic, and that clinic is built oftentimes close to where doctors live.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Thus, the responses shared here were collected among a relatively more health-engaged consumer who has also been keen to use wearable health technologies in their approaches to self-care outside of the doctor’s office.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Condition-focused providers include hims&hers, LemonAid, Ro and Tia, among others.

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Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 156

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Chronic disease management, mental health, even a lot of acute care. Firefly’s services are 100% remote.

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Home Health Care

JULY 6, 2023

As the retail giant Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) delves deeper into the at-home care space, one of its clinical leaders said the company plans to make fewer strategic investments and acquisitions in the near term future. About 20% of people who are in an MA plan program don’t have a primary care doctor.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Medical Management (USMM) is a home-based management services organization that serves 35,000 patients per month in 35 markets across 11 states. Outside of its primary care assets, its home health asset is Pinnacle Home Health, and it operates hospice through Grace and Comfort. The Michigan-based U.S.

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Primary Care Physical Therapy Home Care Hospitals 91

Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. I think that was a big change for home health agencies. When I look at home care, or personal care, that largely hasn’t changed. Can you explain what you meant by that?

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Primary Care Medicare Nursing Medicaid 93

Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Andre Gomez, the executive vice president of Bedrock Healthcare at Home, said he learned that the hard way during his first job in home health care almost 20 years ago. The physician is the gatekeeper, they’re the quarterback, but everyone has a say when it comes to the care continuum.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

The definition of that “modern house call” is largely based on the model of care delivered by CareMore Health — a team-based approach that serves the whole person beyond their diagnosis.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

How Signify leverages the home According to Signify, 29% of Medicare members return to their primary care physician (PCP) within 30 days after their in-home health evaluation. Whether it’s back to a primary care physician, a specialist, a care gap closure or a testing follow-up appointment.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The top-line theme of the report is that, “The $260 billion primary care market is dominated by traditional providers in a fee-for-service arrangement, but that is changing rapidly,” the report begins. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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Hospitals Primary Care Home Care Doctors 71

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Rodgers has over 25 years of health care experience, including home care, insurance, consulting and employee benefits. He was also formerly CEO of OptumHealth Collaborative Care, a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) that owns, manages, and provides administrative and technology services to health care delivery systems.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

Chartowick sat down with HHCN to talk about the biggest lessons she’s learned in home care, home care’s role in the greater health care landscape, the importance of change in the industry and more. She was a specialty provider and a primary care provider. The need for home care has heightened.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. And often, Seniors have trouble seeing their primary doctor on a regular basis, with many of these care gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I CareMax Inc.

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Primary Care Medicare Telemedicine Doctors 82

Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

Like most of their home-based care peers, Friendly Faces Senior Care has faced challenges around recruiting, but James has leaned into a strategy that is working for the company. “I What are the other home care agencies paying, and what are other industries paying that are competing for our workforce?

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Primary Care Hospice Care Doctors Home Care 79

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“We work with large MA plans like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Magellan to outbound outreach to those populations, consult and understand what the needs are for each unique individual,” DUOS CEO Karl Ulfers said during a presentation last month at the Home Care 100 conference.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System. Unlike many other leaders, he’s in the position to prove it.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2024

A significant 77% of respondents indicated they would trust their doctor’s recommendation to utilize HaH monitoring. However, rural residents were more open to entirely remote primary care (36%) compared to urban counterparts (19%).

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Doctors Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care 126

Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

The urgent care service line will be added to Lifespark COMPLETE, Lifespark’s value-based population health business. The Minnesota-based company provides home health, home care, hospice, primary care and senior living, among other services. Those services are offered to a wide range of patients.

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