Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD provides services for big tech giants like Amazon and for small primary and urgent care healthcare provider organizations. Through the Amazon app or on the Clinic page, their customers can choose SteadyMD’s licensed doctors and nurse practitioners to address more than 30 common health concerns.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Many consumers seek virtual care when they have symptoms, or to fulfill specific care needs. Others rely on virtual primary care platforms, often through an app, as their pathway to healthcare services instead of going to an in-person primary care physician.

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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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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Over the years, rural doctors who historically performed house calls have been replaced with regional physician groups and community hospitals that are owned and managed by large health systems with multiple locations. Patient satisfaction, convenience, quality care, and brand loyalty are core to their business models.

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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 Doctor referrals. especially if they offer something their competitors do not. Company website. Paid search.

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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 Associates

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Jason Varghese Spotlight Article Jason Varghese , MD, is a Board-Certified Family Medicine doctor who treats patients of all ages, from newborn babies to 90+ years old. He comes to Healthcare Associates of Texas with a wealth of knowledge and experience in Primary care and Urgent care.

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Healthcare Associates

JANUARY 13, 2023

There are a variety of serious health conditions that cause chest pain, and you should always talk to a doctor about new or worsening symptoms. You will need to see a doctor to confirm that you have pericarditis. Your primary care doctor may be able to diagnose and treat you, but they might send you to a heart specialist.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Specialty care. Four in five U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2022

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. Mandana Varahrami, Chief Product Officer, CipherHealth. It comes through three taps of a button: Nine, one, and one.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? More Boomers also rated the quality of their in-person doctor’s appointment more highly than people in younger age cohorts.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

Founded toward the end of 2018, Plano, Texas-based Resilient provides hospital-at-home, SNF-at-home and traditional home health care services. Resilient and Medical City were among the first hospital-at-home enablers in the U.S. Resilient and Medical City were among the first hospital-at-home enablers in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power is that only one in ten Americans have ever used telehealth or virtual health to substitute for an in-person visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, ER or urgent care clinic in the past year. The top-line finding from J.D. Those who had a telehealth encounter more likely lived in the Western U.S.,

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 25, 2022

Together they explore the topic of his latest book The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating a Physician-Friendly Environment Is Critical For Your Organization’s Success , in more detail. As Doug notes, ‘’ (hospitals) … are losing doctors and they keep worrying about recruiting…. Douglas Farrago.

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Vie Healthcare

MARCH 25, 2022

Together they explore the topic of his latest book The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating a Physician-Friendly Environment Is Critical For Your Organization’s Success , in more detail. As Doug notes, ‘’ (hospitals) … are losing doctors and they keep worrying about recruiting…. Douglas Farrago.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Over one-half of consumers learned about virtual care options through an online search like Google or Bing (“Calling Dr. Google!”), ”), and another one-third through a patient portal, hospital system, or urgent care website.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To With virtual care, you are providing that care continuum, and therefore providing better outcomes. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

The green shades illustrate that consumers are “comfortable” receiving care via virtual providers and telehealth platforms, moreso than via any other care on-ramp — much more than hospitals, ERs, outpatient surgery centers, urgent care clinics, or walk-in clinics. health care system.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

Carrum Health collaborates with apree health , the company formed by digital health innovator Castlight Health and leading advanced primary care provider Vera Whole Health. CliniComp and Oroville Hospital expanded its multi-year partnership beyond Perinatal areas to include Critical Care and high acuity Medical/Surgical units.

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Doctor-led groups are also rising to compete. As consumers look more to integrated healthcare systems — where they have access to retail, urgent care, primary care, and hospitals — traditional hospital systems and large group practices will feel this pressure to expand their services. . #3:

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In collaboration with highly-qualified doctors and healthcare providers, we’ve built a digital health platform that is changing the way people talk about and receive the care they need.” beyond hospitals and bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices. published on 30 September 2019. .”

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 19, 2023

Innovation in Healthcare Via In-Person and Virtual Direct Primary Care Plans According to a poll, less than half of Americans are satisfied with the quality of U.S. Long wait times to see a doctor, short appointments, and lack of coordination between care settings leave patients feeling like no one cares about them or their health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

Tied in first place are my family and doctors (in general — not “my doctor,” per se ). These two personae, valued by 7 in 10 consumers, are followed by my friends, farmers, fitness/health clubs, and my primary food store (that is, the grocery channel the consumer most frequents during the week).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

And expanding telehealth’s use by pharmacists could help patients better manage their medication therapy to improve outcomes and avoid hospital readmissions.”. Rule changes are already being considered at the state and federal level for cross-state reciprocity and expanded payment models, which will help. Eric Rosow, CEO, Diameter Health.

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Birth of Telemedicine The genesis of telemedicine can be traced back to Boston during the late 1960’s with the birth of a fully functioning telemedicine system operating between Mass General Hospital (MGH) and the Logan Airport Medical Station. Byron Brooks, an electrical engineer and medical doctor. Kilimanjaro.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” And so what I would say mainly, especially to employers, to hospital systems, there’s always been sort of a stigma about online. 23:34 The benefits of hiring Nurse Practitioners Rhone said that NPs offer both clinical and interpersonal skills for hospitals. Now you need online education.”

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

We examined a corpus of >100 million free-text notes written by thousands of different healthcare workers at our hospitals and clinics to quantify information overload and scatter. Of note, information gets duplicated both across time (from past notes into future notes) and across teams (from one doctor or nurse’s note to another).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sridhar Yerramreddy, CEO & Founder of Steer Health Staffing shortages and rising costs leave ERs in chaos and even force some hospitals to shut down money-losing emergency departments altogether. The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. Emily Goetz, VP of Commercial at Bright.md.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?… This episode is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting ® which has proudly helped hospitals save $758 million since 1999. … That’s where wellness takes place.’’

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For healthcare consumers, it provides a holistic and comprehensive medical history that is not specific to any healthcare organization or technology and that follows them wherever they go – at a hospital while on vacation, across town to a new provider, or at various specialists. As a result, the patient now has a third identity.

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