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Virtual care service expansions in Australia

Healthcare It News

The service provides 24-hour virtual medical support, specialty or critical care advice and transport, logistics, and coordination support. It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff.

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With Epic-linked RPM, Lee Health is sending fewer people to hospitals and ERs

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"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?" Patients can do this from their living room, as opposed to driving to urgent care or the emergency department.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare It News

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.

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Urgent Care Medical Billing for an Improved Profit Margin

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However, the more patients flow in a healthcare center, hospital, or clinic, the more will be the cash flow, and this upgrades the medical billing profit margin. Giving a miss to urgent care medical billing or compromising over the urgent care services could be a reason. of expert billers and coders.

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ChatGPT's potential impact on preventative care and emergency visits

Healthcare It News

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Doctors maintain their top status as U.S. However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy.

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Lifespark Adds In-Home Urgent Care, Adding ‘Final Brick’ To Its Suite Of Services

Home Health Care

The senior care company Lifespark has been building out its value-based care model for years. Now, it has added in-home urgent care, a key service line for a company taking on upside and downside risk. Ultimately, the goal is to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits or hospitalizations. The costs are horrible.