Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

. – Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“When you have the payer and the provider together, you’re also able to invest in the clinical value-based side of it, for example, to decrease hospitalizations,” he said during the panel discussion. You’re able to invest in that and actually see the benefit from a total cost of care reduction, on the payer side of it.”

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? 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. Second, telemedicine will become better integrated with local care.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It presents state examples and key considerations for state officials via an organizing framework broken down by major components of the delivery system (from primary care to community-based and home-based services and supports) and reflecting essential principles for a modern system.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“We’re working on additional expansions, likely to come in 2024, that will bring us into Washington, and a couple other states out in the Pacific Northwest,” Mike Stuart, chief growth officer at WellBe, told Home Health Care News. In many rural areas, you’re seeing hospital closures. We’re excited to get started in Oregon.”

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For ongoing management of health and wellness needs, members also receive a personalized care plan that includes reminders for follow-ups and action items. Ambetter Virtual Access members will also have access to comprehensive non-virtual care through Ambetter’s extensive provider network of healthcare providers and hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2023

Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. Coordinating and integrating across multiple vendors can be frustrating and expensive.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

SAMHSA lays out the essential elements and best practices for a no-wrong-door integrated crisis system in its National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care : a regional crisis call center, crisis mobile team response, and crisis receiving and stabilization facilities. See the full resource guide.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

While Millennials were least likely to visit a doctor’s office in the past year, they had the most likelihood of making a visit to a mental health provider, to seek chiropractic care, urgent care, and acupuncture — all services delivered outside of traditional medical home settings.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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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. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Invest in prevention and early intervention. Enhance and streamline system of care for children with complex needs and their families. Two states have pursued more innovative approaches and were highlighted in a NASHP report on increasing access to behavioral health care. Expand outpatient and community-based service array.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, if a home health agency has a specialty program that has proved to be exceptional at treating congestive heart failure and keeping patients from going back to hospital for treatments, those are quantifiable data points that MA payers want to see. That was done through reductions in ER visits and hospitalizations.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“We take a thoughtful and targeted approach to our Medicare Advantage footprint – adding new markets where we have strong provider partnerships that will ensure our customers get quality care,” Abburi said. On its end, Humana is significantly expanding support for its two hospital-at-home models.

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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, the alarming rise in mental health challenges among children and youth underscores the need to integrate prevention and early intervention approaches across our child-serving systems. But the system remains fragmented and strained under the twin crises of mental illness and escalating overdose deaths.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– Aspirus Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wisconsin, was awarded $999,463 for the purchase of tablets and video conferencing devices to increase telehealth capabilities so providers can interact with patients without unnecessary risk of exposure to COVID-19. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. .

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This is where we focus all of our home-based care and our home-based delivery. Humana actually started out about 60 years ago as a nursing home company, and then transitioned to a hospital company, then an insurance company, which for the last couple of decades is how we know it. The categories become a little bit semantic.

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Health Care Success

JANUARY 4, 2022

In today’s blog post, I share some of the biggest healthcare consumerism shifts you need to understand for marketing your healthcare organization, hospital, or multilocation practice. . Thanks to online access to patient reviews and comprehensive information about specific physicians and hospitals, patients are more informed than ever before.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This episode is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting ® which has proudly helped hospitals save $758 million since 1999. It’s not whether we monitor them, it’s how we get them better.’’ The vital roles of telehealth , remote patient monitoring and chronic care management in a unified virtual care collaborative platform.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

employer, union) and the consumer herself who faces a lower co-payment for a visit to a retail or urgent care clinic versus the emergency department at the nearby hospital. [As More sophisticated and artful health plan designs are moving in this direction, to help bend the cost curve for both health plan sponsor (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Overall health depends on ensuring that patients get timely, medically appropriate preventive care and that patients with chronic conditions are proactively followed to prevent future complications.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sridhar Yerramreddy, CEO & Founder of Steer Health Staffing shortages and rising costs leave ERs in chaos and even force some hospitals to shut down money-losing emergency departments altogether. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions Employers incur approximately $575 billion each year due to their employees’ poor health, and the number of employees who spend at least $100,000 a year on medical care rose by 50% between 2013 and 2021. and reduce hospitalizations by 12.5% Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. One healthcare organization recently implemented automated outreach to follow up with patients seen in urgent care. Leaders are sick of hearing it.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These social determinants of health, or SDoH , are interconnected and integral to the overall health of communities across the world — and healthcare systems are taking note. . Hospitals saw a 67% increase in demand for service s, especially behavioral health needs after the first year of COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Similarly, they may be looking for additional opportunities to generate revenue, within a value-based care contract (such as preventive care), from traditional fee-for-service setups, or through work such as clinical trial enrollment. Some come from external providers such as urgent care clinics or telehealth services.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For healthcare consumers, it provides a holistic and comprehensive medical history that is not specific to any healthcare organization or technology and that follows them wherever they go – at a hospital while on vacation, across town to a new provider, or at various specialists. Thread 3: Complex Care and the Rise of Advanced Testing.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

Moderna presented as well today, but there were no blockbuster announcements – just confirmation from Moderna CEO, Stéphane Bancel, that Moderna’s initial data seems to indicate that the Moderna vaccine is generally protective against hospitalizations and death. These numbers are credible and are seen in other clinic or center-based models.

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