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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – Home care startup MedArrive raises $25M in Series A funding led by Section 32 to accelerate platform buildout, network expansion to bring affordable at-home care to vulnerable populations across the country. In-Person, At Home, On-Demand. With 40% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Behavioural Health and Telemedicine: The Behavioural Health subsector was down 18.4% Telemedicine leader Teladoc tumbled 54% in the quarter as the pandemic continues to subside and patients are no longer sheltering in place, electing instead to partake in in-person visits. The proposed changes would reduce the conversion factor by 4.4%

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Abo-Hamzy sat down with Home Health Care News to talk about the emerging home-based care models that will be driving the health care-to-home trend in the future. Ultimately, I believe home care represents the future of health care. What drew you to this industry? Empowering.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

” Inside the model The initial joint venture, Home Recovery Care LLC, provided all essential components of inpatient hospital care within the home through telemedicine, in-home providers and comprehensive care management oversight.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through the partnership, MedArrive will offer its services to those 40,000 or so Superior patients, many of which have very complex health care needs. 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.

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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

Other companies bolstering virtual and holistic, integrated primary and specialty care have also been doing well, accelerating innovation and new health-tech adoption in the Age of Corona. The post A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

The post Integration is the New Innovation for Healthcare in 2023: Reflections on CES2023 and JPM2023 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. I weave the pragmatic story together based on datapoints from JP Morgan’s 2023 annual healthcare meeting in San Francisco and CES 2023 held in Las Vegas the previous week.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of Florida’s largest not-for-profit public health systems — Lee Health — is beefing up its virtual- and at-home care capabilities. When looking for a strategic partner, Lee Health was focused on a variety of factors, according to John Witenko, the system director of virtual health and telemedicine at Lee Health. “We

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

As more digital medication management solutions gain FDA approval, there is an increased opportunity to integrate digital support as part of the medication process and reduce medication abandon rates. Anish Sebastion, CEO and Co-founder of Babyscripts. Yossi Bahagon, Chairman of Sweetch.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

This is the sort of “disruption” we refer to thinking about new entrants to the health/care ecosystem, delivering convenience, access, and loyalty-inspired feelings among patients, now behaving as consumers.

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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 is currently working with Bright’s newly enrolled Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicare members.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The UHC study found that roughly one-half of patients-as-consumers would likely use virtual care services ongoing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2022

However, payers are working to reduce the cost of care to reel in healthcare costs and keep premiums lower to remain competitive, driving key changes. Ambulatory Surgery and Home Care. Ambulatory surgeries are resulting in less time spent in the high-cost acute care setting, reducing payer costs.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2021

Based in Los Angeles, CA, Axle Health enables any healthcare company to offer in-home visits to their patients. mcare enables remote delivery of wrap around care coordination and integration of existing virtual care and remote patient care solutions, promising real medication adherence defined as right med, right time, right person.

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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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe. The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2024

Add in two more factors to the cost obstacle: first, that tech device adoption is high, and health technology not well integrated into older peoples’ life-flows with their tech; and second, that very few app-receptive older consumers receive recommendations or “prescriptions” (small “p”) from their doctors.

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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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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.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 16, 2024

(I’ll have a full-post write-up on smart rings during #CES2025, so do stay tuned for that update on this quick-growth category for self-care).

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Next, consider how to bridge the insights gap, given the vast amounts of data flowing from many care sites within and outside but allied to the health care organization. 94% of health care leaders say their organization is facing at least one data integration challenge negatively impacting their ability to provide timely quality care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Getting care home and “anywhere,” we must ensure that integrated care “isn’t lost in the shuffle,” a recent Chain Drug Review column explained. The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team. Not so much.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Complementing in-person care,” as Christopher Lis coins it, translates to the curation and construction of omni-channel health care services. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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Health Advances

MARCH 9, 2023

Alternative care models have long presented an opportunity to help alleviate these problems. With the pandemic already accelerating the adoption of alternative care models like telehealth, virtual care, and in-home care, another potential solution may also help address some of these challenges: task shifting.

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Recent research from Wolters Kluwer explored this phenomenon, learning that these younger health care consumers seek convenience but also lower costs for medications and services.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Dozens of companies’ technologies are integrated into this home. Among the technology partners are Belkin, Carrier, CertainTeed, Dish, Greyter, Kingspan, Kohler, NOON, Phyn, Rheem, Western Window Systems, and Whirlpool (whose “Everyday, Care” theme at CES always attracts my engagement), among many others.

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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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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The company is offering a hearing device integrating deep neural network technology that offers “BrainHearing through the ear” in a customized hearing aid. Some big retail health news in 2022 was the FDA’s finally enabling hearing aids to be sold direct-to-consumer — more on that important development here.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Living in an urban area typically offers greater access to a wider range of home care services than living in a rural area. Care Advantage provides both home care and home health services in Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Delaware.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Technology adoption continues as older adults integrate tech into daily life, AARP notes in its discussion of the associations 2025 Tech Trends annual report. Hy-Vee, the grocery chain which garnered top designation as Pharmacy Innovator of the Year in 2024 by Drug Store News for affordable, convenient care).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Financial stress is integral to overall health and well-being based on consumers’ own definition of “health.” Independence Blue Cross (IBX) announced an alliance with Quartet Health to integrate physical and mental health via digital platforms.

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