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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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. Defaulting to in-person visits takes up a lot more time and money for both patients and doctors.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Queensland to pilot telestroke service at Hervey Bay Hospital The Queensland government has designated Hervey Bay Hospital as the pilot site for the upcoming statewide telestroke service. The project, according to a press statement, aims to enable the sharing of patient information between public acute and primary care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model of care has gained significant momentum in recent years and is transforming how care is delivered to patients. This model enhances patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes by providing reliable, high-quality acute care in the comfort of patients’ homes.

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p3care

JANUARY 8, 2025

Statistics published in Medical Economics present that, on average, doctor bills to medical insurance companies are around $3.8 Similarly, primary care or independent physicians also add up to an enormous amount of revenue which includes patient admissions, medical tests, and subsequent treatments. million per year.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2023

Crotty: In the United States, advancing technology has moved care more toward hospitals, doctors’ offices or advanced facilities. This has created multiple chokepoints – access can be limited and wait times are long for many doctors, and frankly there aren’t even enough primary care providers.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. "How do you identify that someone is socially isolated, does not have an adequate supply of nutritious food, is experiencing domestic abuse or is not able to take their medications as directed by their doctor?,"

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

"For example, a patient would be in their living room and ping the doctor to let them know they have a specific condition they are concerned about, and they're wondering what should they do about it?" Lee Health is sending fewer people to hospitals and emergency departments.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. We began by helping people tackle hair loss and sexual health, as these are common conditions that cause social anxiety and can be embarrassing to talk about with someone, even a doctor. First we launched primary care.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This podcast is a must-listen for healthcare leaders and primary care practitioners seeking innovative ways to enhance patient access, optimize care delivery, and address challenges like burnout. You guys gave the credibility for other hospitals to follow suit. It sounds crazy now, but back when you started, Lee.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Shifting Primary Care to Preventative Care to Increase Engagement In contrast to many other countries, Americans have fewer physician visits and a lower ratio of practicing physicians and hospital beds per 1,000 population.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They'll have streamlined access to their complete medical history from primary care and specialists, through to hospital interventions," Porter added. " "It all depends too much on the nurses’ and doctors’ availability, which is creating unsustainable pressure," he added.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. All of those pages and pages of forms you get at a doctor's office? With prescheduling, doctors are able to populate your medical record before you get there.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Making health data more accessible to patients – not to mention doctors and health plans – is a priority for all hospitals and health systems today, as the final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interoperability Rule mandates patient access.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As a result, healthcare providers still heavily rely on positive relationships with their referring doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs). And you know, in hospitals, if you were new to a hospital system, a health system, you would take it for granted. There's a team of physician liaisons that support the hospital.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Although the statewide mandates have been lifted for care delivery, we still use telehealth as a solution for our patients who feel safer at home. "Telehealth has helped us work around this, and we have given our patients with these concerns a direct connection to a doctor's visit from the comfort of their home.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

"Since one in four young adults have diabetes but don’t know it until they end up in the hospital in an emergency, having this kind of capability within a tool is amazing," he continued. "Also, because hospitals are often so short-staffed, they sometimes can’t accept patients right away."

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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. What's more, when doctors are well-informed about their patients, it has the capacity to improve the visit. As cliche as that sounds, it's true.

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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. It is supporting the National University Health System, Singapore General Hospital, and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in their respective virtual ward service trials.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2022

billion into a joint venture (JV) to further expand its senior-focused value-based primary care clinics. Specifically, Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care arm will be the partner in the expanded WCAS relationship. CenterWell is the largest senior-focused, value-based primary care group in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After he passed unexpectedly, we spent time with those folks who saw a meaningful decline coming, and yet that information wasn't being shared with the formal healthcare team, definitely not his insurance company, and not with his family in a way that we could intervene to try to change his care trajectory. Healthcare is hard.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 18, 2023

A generational divide revealed more Gen Z and Millennials (56% and 54%, respectively) have visited a local pharmacy to receive care in the past year than their Gen X (40%) and Baby Boomer (35%) counterparts, according to the report , released today. The survey was conducted online between March 15-21.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs.

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Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2023

The Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) is a microcosm of the larger trend that is home-based primary care. This type of care is proliferating across the U.S., That success has driven the start of new projects, but also additional excitement around bringing home-based primary care back in vogue across the whole country.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Quality of care is equal to, if not greater than, the care provided in a traditional brick-and-mortar setting. Patients can initiate care digitally, get complete care virtually, or can continue it in-home, if and when needed.

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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. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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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

MARCH 30, 2020

Today, March 30, is National Doctors Day. We honor doctors annually on this day. The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. doctors, including: Too many bureaucratic tasks. On this National Doctors Day, please do honor your physician(s).

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pentavere partners with hospital networks on data abstraction and structuring. The company, founded by Google AI division veteran Adrian Aoun, shared its plans to move beyond direct-to-consumer primary care while announcing $100 million in investments to manufacture and deploy the pods on Wednesday.

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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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A new partnership with Amazone One Medical, which offers hybrid virtual and in-person primary care, aims to expand access to high-quality coordinated care in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic said in an announcement Monday.

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