Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

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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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

"For many patients going to the doctor is stressful enough, this integration reduces added stress patients can experience when navigating to a doctor’s office for the first time,” Robin Gadd-Lane, manager of digital health and transformation systems at Prisma Health, said in a statement.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. Brian Zack, system medical director for digital health at University Hospitals and associate chief medical officer at Ahuja Medical Center.

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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 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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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 It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "Through virtual consultations, patients meet with their surgeon as a 'meet and greet' for pre-surgical evaluation, care plan education and instruction covering the intra-hospital transfers prior to the surgery," Skrzynski explained.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Solv Final Mile Benefits Solv Final Mile uniquely addresses these challenges through Solv’s proprietary APIs and tools that seamlessly link virtual and online care to in-person care through Solv’s national network of high quality urgent care centers, where 150M Americans today are within five miles of a bookable, same-day appointment.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

43% had hesitancy to switch doctors for fear of losing their medical history. And if so, they do not know which hospitals, urgent care centers, pharmacies or other providers have access to their health records. 43% experienced duplicating tests/images because they weren’t shared between providers.

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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 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 People This encompasses everyone directly or indirectly involved in the hospital, health system, facility, or practice (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Resilient Healthcare, a high-acuity home-based care provider, recently partnered with Medical City Healthcare in order to offer hospital-at-home services. They’re identified at the hospital as a good candidate for hospital-at-home,” Jackleen Samuel, president and CEO of Resilient, told Home Health Care News.

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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 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

MAY 12, 2020

One of the areas that won’t be getting “back to business” soon will be patients’ visits to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers, the report notes, based on a survey conducted among 591 U.S. consumers on April 28 and 29, 2020. Millions of U.S. Millions of U.S.

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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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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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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Autumn Gertz, project manager at the computational epidemiology lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and project manager of the Outbreaks Near Me team, to get answers and a deep dive into the survey results. Years ago, it would have been hard to believe you could connect with your doctor on your phone.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services. So the moral of this story is if you delight the patient, you do good and do well.

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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. "We use virtual-first primary care to take our digital offerings to patients to the next level.

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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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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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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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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2021

According to Pew Research, 47% of internet users search for information about doctors or other health professionals online, and 1 in 20 Google searches are related to healthcare. Hospitals and health systems have been seeing a bounce back in patient volume throughout 2021, and this upward trend is expected to continue.

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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 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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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. Bottom-line, by using technology to support communication and care, Accenture explains, health care providers were able to maintain and often improve the care experience.

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Health Care Success

APRIL 19, 2021

Of necessity, healthcare systems, hospitals and medical practices responded with a dramatic change. Including tech-enabled delivery in the healthcare mix can reach more patients, enhance the patient experience and the continuum of care. For hospitals, doctors and healthcare practices, the new digital front door is now in place.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In addition, Labcorp COVID-19 PCR tests may be conducted at doctors’ offices, hospitals and health systems, urgent care facilities and many drive-thru testing sites. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, and health care, in unprecedented ways. Why It Matters.

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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2021

What began as an explosion of patent demand for urgent care resources, ventilators, and ICU beds evolved into multiple, regional infection surges that continue to test the resiliency of the healthcare system to this day. It’s precisely what the doctor ordered. According to the U.S. About Greg Kefer.

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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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