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

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

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 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

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

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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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

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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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. The post The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home?

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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

The app allows Apple employees to log fitness goals, manage hypertension, and talk to clinicians and coaches at AC Wellness, the doctors' group that Apple works with. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. There was no shortage of commentary on social media.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

These patients were getting care, but unfortunately the care they received was in high-cost environments such as hospitals – and discharged to post-acute facilities. “It is precisely these patients who are consuming the healthcare dollar at an increasing rate.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

According to Stephanie Lahr, CIO and CMIO of Monument Health, voice recognition in a clinical context is complex, and Doctor-Patient encounters are hard to capture in voice recognition software. Big tech and voice-recognition in healthcare. However, Alexa uses voice in a non-clinical (or quasi-clinical, depending on how you see it) context.

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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

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

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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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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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. Once adjusted for volumes, the higher expenses are more evident as hospitals struggle to hold down per-patient costs.”

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Want to help make a big change for our nation’s overworked doctors? 834 , the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to confront the country’s growing shortage of doctors. Take both worst-case scenarios, and we are short 125,100 doctors. Certain categories of hospitals will each receive at least ten percent of the positions.

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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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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

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

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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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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