Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. ” Software Advice wondered.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, rate cuts and Medicare Advantage penetration will continue to be trends in the home health market in 2024. Home Health Care News heard from six of these home health industry leaders, who shared their views on the biggest trends, challenges and opportunities that will define home health care in 2024 and beyond.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. For the former, Amazon leadership is talking up the company’s expertise in consumer experience and delight, efficiency and engagement (which I addressed in yesterday’s Day 1 post ).

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Etactics

APRIL 12, 2024

Imagine you’re a doctor and you have a patient that comes in for a service such as a check-up. The most common viewing of a third-party payer in the United States are private insurance companies, like Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and public government payers, such as Medicare and Medicaid. What is Medicare ? In 2016, 28.6

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Somatus model is an interesting one, as it takes a whole person approach to kidney care, that reduced the medical loss ratio (MLR, the comparison of medical costs to total revenue, and ideally below 85% for Medicare patients) for kidney care patients by 21.9%, which is a remarkable number.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. This shift to hybrid care could ameliorate some of the major problems in the U.S. Hybrid Healthcare Must Offer A Seamless Patient Experience.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana is one of the largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers in the country. It is also one of the largest providers of home health care through its $8.1 New approaches to at-home health care, such as urgent care in the home, are making the patient experience more convenient than ever.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

” A new study from Sage Growth Partners and Black Book Research demonstrates some ambivalence among physicians — especially among medical and surgical doctors. The bullish forecasts we now read in analysts’ reports must be tempered with the doctors’ and other providers’ points-of-view.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

Yet despite increased use of EHRs by clinicians and smartphones and wireless technology by patients, the fundamental approaches to managing hypertension, diabetes, and chronic lung disease have remained the same for 50 years… The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

” Well beyond our individual genetic codes, our health is made where we live, work, play, pray, learn, and shop… also well beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices in-between appointments, and often paid-for out-of-pocket quite separate from peoples’ health insurance plans. government would have saved $2.6

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

Morgan Conference – COVID-19, the jittery stock market, the future of Medicare Advantage and recent industry changes. Centene noted that for Centene Medicare members, the inpatient utilization trend was higher than 60%, but lower than 60% for Medicaid and Marketplace members. I really had to look at the shadows and not the backgrounds.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

But my mind, being chock-full of value-based care presentations, quickly imagines the building as the shining pyramid of patient segmentation and risk stratification, envisioning the proper way to sort patients for effective intervention and total cost of care reduction.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

HeartFlow’s non-invasive, cutting edge technology aims to improve the patient experience and make cardiovascular care easier for physicians. 13:30 Invasive treatments impact the patient experience Lauren said that over half of patients undergo diagnostic cardiac catheterization unnecessarily.

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. Melissa explained the difference when a doctor finally included her in decision-making. ‘’I

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Lumify transducer plugs into the midwife’s tablet and captures a clinically fine image to collaborate in real-time with a doctor at another location. This has utility for both patient and provider. For more on Philips’ approach to pregnancy and women’s health in the COVID-19 pandemic, check out this link].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

The heart has been a digital health focus at CES for several years as sensors got added to wristworn activity trackers and mobile apps married to medical technologies that were once only available for use in a doctor’s office or outpatient clinic.

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Vie Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2023

This is where they’d probably be best allocated for patient care, for patient experience.” ” And it’s like, “And here are the returns that you can get from that improvement in patient care and experience.” All this really affects clinicians.

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Vie Healthcare

MAY 4, 2023

And as you know, obviously a huge percentage of healthcare spending is funded through Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA system, and these are all programs that are covered by the False Claims Act. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. All this really affects clinicians.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I show this market basket of the four sectors as health consumers look for services — say, vaccinations, primary care, over-the-counter medicines, health and wellness products, fitness and wearable technology — beyond doctors’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and health plans.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Worries about health care costs, now crossing over into higher-earning households, underpins the growth of consumerism. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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