HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

VP, Strategic Solutions at Definitive Healthcare Primary care is at a tipping point. However, in the past, primary care delivery has been dictated by changes in payor-led reimbursement models. Amazon is also making moves to dominate physician markets, buying out primary care practice One Medical.

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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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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

Concurrently, the healthcare workforce is facing significant attrition; approximately 20% of doctors are planning to leave the profession and more than 170,000 healthcare workers departed their roles in 2021, according to JAMA. How can hospitals and health systems use LLMs to ease clinician workload?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members. were left without care options for routine and long-term issues. “Patients throughout the U.S.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS While its obvious main goal is to keep patients safe at home, the safe@home project also intends to raise their quality of life and make them more involved in this model of care.

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced the launch of the Home Smart Clinic, a multi-pronged offering delivering health plans and providers a comprehensive range of elements required to launch a truly successful virtual care program without compromises.

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Home Health Care

JULY 21, 2022

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) announced plans on Thursday to acquire the primary care provider One Medical (Nasdaq: ONEM) for a price tag of $3.9 Once the acquisition closes, it will give Amazon a large primary care capability to potentially pair with its growing home-based care business, Amazon Care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

THE PROBLEM Memorial began offering on-demand virtual urgent care to its employees and patients via a third-party vendor in 2016. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S. Kleinke noted in his book titled Oxymorons ….published

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When individuals are diagnosed with diabetes, their primary care provider or endocrinologist becomes the quarterback of their care team. Relatively new remote patient monitoring devices are changing that equation for people with diabetes, making it easier to monitor and manage their blood glucose between doctors’ visits.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

The integration of the TytoCare solution into mPharma’s telehealth offerings enables pharmacies to provide patients with enhanced remote care through in-depth, physical examinations. On average patients can wait two to three hours to see a doctor at public hospitals and one hour in private hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2022

What You Should Know: – For people who have used virtual primary care, the vast majority of them (94%) are satisfied with their experience, and nearly four in five (79%) say it has allowed them to take charge of their health. Virtual Primary Care Helping People Take Charge of Their Health.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. Primary care in the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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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

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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This observation has not gone unnoticed by both new entrants and existing industry stakeholders such as health plans and pharmacies, many of which have added health care to their core businesses or have been vertically integrating their health care portfolios.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC launched a virtual-first, full-service primary care clinic offering a complete spectrum of care to patients aged 18 and above.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2024

Their most prominent accomplishment has been the AI-powered virtual primary care app Cedars-Sinai Connect. Launched in fall 2023, the app already has increased primary care capacity by 11% – the equivalent of building three new clinics. The second part of your question was integration and workflows.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

"As we carefully considered our long-term strategic options, we determined that CVS Health is the ideal partner, given its focus on expanding access to health services and helping consumers navigate to the best sites of care," said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Signify Health, in the announcement. Signify Health providers spend 2.5

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over an eight-week trial of the company's RPI platform, 81% of patients who had their diabetes managed by the AI achieved glycemic control of their diabetes compared to 25% of patients who received traditional care, according to the new partnerships announcement.

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Healthcare Leadership

MAY 1, 2023

Blog by Joe Babaian As we navigate the ever-evolving medical landscape, it’s crucial to recognize the role of the medical education system in shaping the doctors of tomorrow. Primary care takes a back seat: The shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S. is a real problem. is a real problem.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Vytalize Health raises over $50 million to advance its value-based care platform for seniors helping primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven, holistic, and personalized care. Specializing in Medicare Value-Based Care Programs.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What You Should Know: – Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand , the leader in integrated virtual care and navigation, today announced a solution designed to help remove barriers to care for the Black community.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

"The AI space can get very complex and confusing, so I would look for plug-and-play AI systems that address specific problems that are easy to integrate in your organization's tech stack." "Mediktor proposed to us to leverage this patient behavior and provide them with an appropriate and safe digital solution instead.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Connecting Members With Primary Care Doctors That Provide Longitudinal Care. HealthTap is a nationwide virtual primary care provider, delivering quality primary care affordably to all Americans, whether or not they have good insurance.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What You Should Know: – Hackensack Meridian Health , New Jersey’s largest health network, and One Medical , a prominent national virtual and in-office primary care organization, are joining forces to provide a new primary care option in New Jersey. Addressing Primary Care Gaps With one in four U.S.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

. – Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2023

Its current and future home-based care initiatives were highlighted throughout, lending further insight into the breadth of the company’s resources and goals. Humana’s CenterWell – which includes primary care, home health care and pharmacy – includes what used to be Kindred at Home’s home health network.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful. These providers are interacting with patients in a mix of bricks-and-mortar and virtual care models. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the mirror, the Care OS ecosystem integrating CardioComm for ECG monitoring coupled with a smart mirror. Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. This means their competition extends beyond brick-and-mortar providers in their communities or regions to include well-funded, highly recognizable national brands.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2024

What You Should Know: Advocare LLC, a 750-provider multi-specialty group practice based in New Jersey with the largest number of pediatric providers in the state, today announced a partnership with Fort Health, a virtual pediatric behavioral healthcare company built with the Child Mind Institute, to expand services delivered through primary care.

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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. As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Andre Gomez, the executive vice president of Bedrock Healthcare at Home, said he learned that the hard way during his first job in home health care almost 20 years ago. We believe that the future of health care and medicine is in the hands of those that integrate technology and biology.”

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