Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. "We think of her as a virtual assistant to our care coordinators.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The San Francisco-based in-home care startup has grown fairly rapidly since then, landing key partnerships with organizations like Cover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) and a strategic investment from The SCAN Group. MedArrive’s latest win came on Tuesday: a major collaboration with Bright HealthCare. This is the future.”.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The idea is that, through MedArrive’s capabilities and offerings in the home, care gaps will be closed, and social drivers of health will be addressed. Caregivers will then provide of in-home health care services, diagnostics, health assessments and other preventive health measures for these members.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

In the Future Health Index 2024, Philips’ latest annual report presents a profile of the state of health care focused on how to provide better care for more people. Globally, two-thirds of health care leaders see deteriorating staff well-being, physical and mental. ” The post How to Get Better Care to More People?

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Health Advances

MARCH 9, 2023

By Shomik Datta, with contributions from Greg Chittim and Ashley Peake This is the 3rd in a series of reports from the Wharton Healthcare Conference in February 2023. You can read previous entries here: Is the Healthcare Industry Meeting the Rising Expectations of Consumers? trillion annually, accounting for more than 17% of its GDP.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Differences across the six consumer health-profile segments, the greatest spending adjustments have been made to healthcare visits among healthy families and people managing complex chronic conditions. The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

These include the use of online patient portals (for 57% of clinicians) along with digital devices and mobile apps that integrate with the EHR as well as health patients manage their health in self-care mode, shown in the bar chart labeled Figure 7. The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

To make this work, patients will need to be assured they will be treated with respect and sensitivity (for treatment as well as for privacy and data stewardship), as well as payment being covered for these services that have long been fragmented or carved away from primary care — where mental health belongs and should be integrated.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients managing cardiology and vascular diseases expressed the highest praise for quality of care using videoconferencing (97%, virtually all patients polled, saying quality care was at least as good or better than face-to-face care. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply companies. To CVS, the Signify purchase isn’t a wager on home health.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Welcome to the third installment in Healthcare IT News ' latest feature series, "Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years. Moore is all for telemedicine. " B.J.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2019

can’t benefit from telehealth and other digital health connections that can bolster self-care, home care, and lower cost care. One in three Americans does not have a broadband connection, according to a new report from the NPD Group. This means that about 100 million people in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Two years later, Philips finds that younger physicians are most bullish on care, everywhere: as Shez Partovi, Philips’ Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer asserts in the 2023’s FHI report introduction, “When I think of the future of healthcare delivery, I think of ‘your care, your way.'”

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Big tech will make noise, not real change, with their forays into fixing healthcare. Big tech companies have not worked to improve healthcare from the inside out. This does not solve the problem at the root of the poor American healthcare experience: a uniquely disconnected ecosystem that fails patients and providers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

From the Best Buy press release: Current Health’s enterprise care-at-home platform enables healthcare organizations to deliver high-quality, patient-centric care at a lower cost. It has led to extreme pressures on our healthcare services, our healthcare professionals, and the broader society.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2021

What You Should Know: – Accenture announced eight finalists for its fifth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge-North America , a competition that supports new and novel solutions from startups to improve the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America. Axle Health. Based in Burnsville, MN, ?mcare

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2022

With this decision, CVS continues to pivot away from the historical core pharmacy business, toward its ongoing vertical integration and service portfolio expansion for health and health care, beyond the pill. CVS storefronts represented about one-fourth of NACDS’s store count.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

For more context on Philips’ pivot to hospital-to-home care in the wake of pandemic, see my post here on Health Populi published on the company’s commitment to connected care across the continuum]. Hygiene and the clean home.

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