Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

Flannery also describes an actual example of specialty care his company has delivered via an employer, and the outcomes. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today? Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. How can virtual specialty care help overcome these challenges?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S. Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The technology-enabled form of healthcare delivery has huge momentum coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. We anticipate rapid expansion of virtual care that will dramatically reshape how healthcare services are accessed, coordinated and delivered.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. But many provider organizations have yet to embrace a virtual-first approach, eschewing a telemedicine front door for traditional, in-person care first. Why is this important?

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 13, 2022

More companies are making high-quality healthcare easier to access and more affordable by embracing data and technology. While healthcare has historically been among the slowest to accept new technologies, the pandemic has sped adoption. What is personalized healthcare, and how can you incorporate it into your marketing strategy?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

"Seeing someone by video alone can certainly be enough in an isolated situation, but to provide that layer of quality, we sought out a way to deliver better care virtually," he added. PROPOSAL Baptist Health found telemedicine technology vendor TytoCare. "And the vendor plans on adding AI to their tool.

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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. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2025

His is the first Epic-based virtual care company – Epic having the largest market share among EHR vendors, that makes starting up with telemedicine quite simple for a great many provider organizations. We interviewed Berkowitz, asking him for his look at the year ahead in telemedicine. Phase 1 of telehealth is dead.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. Patients can do this from their living room, as opposed to driving to urgent care or the emergency department. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

"The other critical challenge we wanted to solve is one that every healthcare delivery organization faces right now – provider efficiency," he continued. " "If you're not already addressing the patient experience and access for care, be aware many others are going to do it for you." MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health® (FSH), a virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine and virtual mental health, today announced the availability of Virtual Primary Care for its clients and members throughout the U.S. How FSH Virtual Primary Care Features. ”

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HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2023

Monte Sandler, COO of Experity Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. These efforts allowed Maimonides to identify four key virtual care technologies that were areas of focus, aligned with Maimonides strategy: virtual patient visits, virtual consults, e-consults and remote patient monitoring. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

This lack of public transportation limits those living in rural areas from accessing healthcare and other social and educational services. McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. There is a wide variety of vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. More than 10 years in the making. Recent technology upgrades this summer.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. " El Camino also was seeking a technology that could support what Muro calls high-reliability care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. Please explain how, and the value virtual primary care adds here. How, exactly?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Some health systems have contracted with third-party telemedicine vendors that often require patients to go into a separate system that is not well-integrated with the health systems' other technologies. Other health systems have built up their own virtual care provider strength but are unlikely to provide 24/7, comprehensive coverage.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. What do people expect from AI in healthcare?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Both vendors are HIPAA-compliant and work with healthcare providers nationally. There is a wide variety of telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News put together a special report detailing the vendors and their products and services. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It also recognized the foundational changes occurring in the health system – especially when it came to consumer behavior and increased competition from nontraditional healthcare disruptors. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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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.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 17, 2023

Commonwealth Care Alliance is a healthcare services organization that offers health plans and care delivery programs designed for individuals with significant needs. CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid.

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Healthcare Leadership

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week on #hcldr, let’s talk about Speed in Healthcare and what the implications really mean. It’s time to discuss how we see things now, our experiences – good and bad, what we see coming next, and most importantly, what we are doing to make it happen in ways to assure real care, better access, and innovation across the board.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. 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. healthcare system.

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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

healthcare system, which sees close to $1 trillion annually in wasteful spending. Founded in 2013, Hint Health is redesigning the way healthcare is paid for and delivered. The average primary care doctor visit costs patients $167, takes weeks to schedule, and requires jumping through insurance hoops just to receive basic care.

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Healthcare Leadership

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week on #hcldr, let’s talk about the Need for Speed in Healthcare and what the implications really mean. Some thoughts to get you thinking: Does the healthcare revolution of fast/instant access include all populations? T2: How does faster healthcare delivery impact access to care across the board?

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

We know the pandemic has spawned new healthcare trends. With clients across the full spectrum of healthcare, we monitor how providers and other healthcare organizations are affected by COVID-19 and what they’re doing to evolve and survive. Employee wellbeing and support programs are emerging as vital healthcare trends.

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