HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2024

Primary care has also benefited from virtualization of services. According to a study published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health , telehealth offered by primary care physicians rose from 5.3% before the pandemic to 46.2% to $186.10

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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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Shifting Primary Care to Preventative Care to Increase Engagement In contrast to many other countries, Americans have fewer physician visits and a lower ratio of practicing physicians and hospital beds per 1,000 population. This can be done through both in-person and virtual settings.

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Healthcare Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The coming out of the pandemic, you know, we were heading into the pandemic with a oncoming shortage of healthcare providers anyway, due to the talent cliff that we were heading with retiring baby boomers and are the fact that we had a broad system we weren't producing enough to replace all of them.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , a leading virtual healthcare provider delivering affordable, high-quality primary care, today announced its launch into the durable medical equipment (DME) market with its first partner, Aeroflow Healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Signify Health providers spend 2.5 times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Amazon, meanwhile, was reported a bidder for Signify Health. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS While decision factors for different types of cancers vary, a trial of the technology helped providers analyze patient records in five minutes, according to the company. AI could be instrumental in disease management, said Xin Wang, assistant professor in the University at Albany department of epidemiology and biostatistics.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs.

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p3care

JANUARY 8, 2025

Similarly, primary care or independent physicians also add up to an enormous amount of revenue which includes patient admissions, medical tests, and subsequent treatments. Market Trends As per the reports published in Business Wire, the market of healthcare billing services in the United States was around $4.64

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

a provider of healthcare data and technology solutions and On Belay Health Solutions announced a strategic collaboration to support primary care providers in improving patients’ health outcomes while strengthening their practices’ financial foundation. What You Should Know: – Veradigm Inc. ,

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As well, transitional care visits can happen virtually post-discharge using telehealth platforms and external staffing to alleviate long wait times due to primary care provider shortages. Finally, digital technologies can facilitate more effective communication and training for healthcare staff.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2025

Baptist Health, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a faith-based, nonprofit health system comprising six hospitals with more than 1,100 beds, a cancer center, four satellite emergency departments, and more than 200 patient access points of care throughout northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. First we launched primary 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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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 10, 2024

Meanwhile, nearly 74% of Americans seeking help turn to their primary care physician rather than a mental health professional. But in the primary care setting, depression is often overlooked, with misdiagnosis occurring in approximately 50% of cases. The financial burden of depression on U.S.

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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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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Tech-enabled home healthcare provider Speedoc has tied up with Parkway Shenton, the primary care arm of IHH Healthcare Singapore, to expand care options for patients. The company continues to seek collaborations with both private and public healthcare providers to expand its mobile home care model.

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Health Care Leader News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Dr Mark Davies, chief medical officer for IBM and Watson Health EMEA, discusses how primary care can use technology to help recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. While great progress was made in the summer, there is still a backlog of non-Covid care created by the first wave. Primary care is ‘open for business’….

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"Through telehealth, patients have been able to access medical care from their own homes, avoiding potential exposure to the virus," Manzie noted. Telehealth technology can help with a variety of healthcare-related issues, Manzie spelled out, including: Improving access to care for individuals in remote or underserved areas.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Color Health will provide no-cost genetic counseling services to All of Us participants and their family members and healthcare providers to discuss and interpret their results, according to the announcement. based genomics efforts grounded in primary care at that time. It was one of the largest U.S.-based

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found telehealth is nearly as effective as in-person primary care visits when it comes to addressing patient needs. The height of the pandemic and the years that followed proved that telehealth not only works, but it’s here to stay as a primary care source.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Zarminali Health , a new pediatric healthcare provider, has secured $40M in seed funding to revolutionize the delivery of primary and specialty care for children led by General Catalyst.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

The Strengthening Medicare Task Force , which was formed to identify the most pressing investments needed in Australia's primary care sector, r ecently suggested modernising the "clunky" MHR, among other recommendations it forwarded to the government.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 18, 2023

A generational divide revealed more Gen Z and Millennials (56% and 54%, respectively) have visited a local pharmacy to receive care in the past year than their Gen X (40%) and Baby Boomer (35%) counterparts, according to the report , released today.

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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. ” As we saw during the pandemic, delaying care can have dire results, and virtual-first all but solves the issue.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"In some of our primary care locations, we have implemented the ability to connect with a specialist via a telehealth visit while the patient is already at the primary care office to avoid having to make multiple trips." "Both vendors are HIPAA-compliant and work with healthcare providers nationally.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2025

Addressing Disparities in Women’s Healthcare Tia’s recent “ Women’s Integrated Primary Care 2024 Outcomes Report ” highlighted significant challenges women face in healthcare. Providers reported a 50% reduction in the time required to submit clinical notes after appointments.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Healthcare providers—particularly primary care providers—can serve as the first line of defense in catching mental health issues. Alerts in the EHR can prompt care coordinators or other office staff to reach out and stay on top of how the patient is feeling. Now is the time to act.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

It is a nontrivial problem in a market where there is widespread shortage of healthcare workers. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Both incubated the service using partnerships: AC Wellness in the case of Apple and Care Medical in the case of Amazon.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With a chronic shortage of mental healthcare providers in rural areas, there is a significant lack of access to this much-needed care for those who reside there. What is the problem with rural and partially rural areas and so few mental healthcare providers? How did this problem develop?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Kaufman Hall analyzed 100 health care organizations in this year’s consumerism survey to assess their readiness to embrace consumer-centric strategies, understand how the industry prioritizes these approaches, evaluate their progress toward responding to them, and identifying best practices.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

On Monday, OBHPN announced a new partnership with Alera to build a clinically integrated network to expand access to care, improve health outcomes and lower costs, according to an announcement from the population health management company.

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Health Care Leader News

JULY 1, 2022

In May, the chief executives of all 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) signed a letter to NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard endorsing the recommendations set out by Dr Claire Fuller, a GP and chief executive of the Surrey Heartlands ICS, in her recent Government commissioned review into the future of primary care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The addition of Pentavere’s data abstraction and structuring capabilities will broaden HEALWELL’s therapeutic and disease indication spectrum offered to WELL’s healthcare providers, the company said in its announcement Wednesday.

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