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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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 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

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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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 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

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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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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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. Nurses have ranked highest in honesty and ethics in past Gallup polls , demonstrating the profession’s consistent image and delivery of services that patients highly value on the front lines of care.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 17, 2025

The organization is offering home-delivered nutritious meals after a hospital or skilled nursing facility admission. Virtual care options for nonemergency urgent care, behavioral health, dermatology and speech therapy is another offering members will be able to access this year. The offering includes 14 meals.

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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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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 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

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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Instead, we should take a step back and think about how we can better support doctors in delivering high-quality care. For example, these tools can help patients navigate to the right care, engage more effectively in their interactions with clinicians, and better manage their health, lifestyle, and treatments.

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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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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

You guys gave the credibility for other hospitals to follow suit. It was sort of a natural progression there and then there were people, you know, in other hospitals Lee Aase: who were trying to get their leadership to say they were saying, Hey, we should have a Facebook page and their leaders would say, Well, that's stupid.

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Healthcare Success

MARCH 21, 2023

distance, transportation, or caretaker availability), but it also saves time and money, reduces transfers, emergency department, and urgent care center visits, and delivers savings to payers. CVS Minute Clinics CVS Minute Clinics are revolutionizing how people receive routine and non-emergent care across the country.

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

patients are more comfortable with generative artificial intelligence (AI) analyzing their radiology scans and making diagnoses than with AI answering the phone at their doctor’s office. hospital wait times and delays in getting appointments are the most significant pain points for patients, even outranking high costs.

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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 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

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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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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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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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 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

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We weren’t surprised to note that younger patients took advantage of retail clinics and other on-demand channels for health care, older people, too, have been willing to use sites other than doctor’s offices and hospital clinics to receive health care services.

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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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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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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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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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