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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2022

. – As part of the partnership, Baptist Health will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic solution into its current telehealth offering, enhancing the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients with in-depth, remote physical examinations during virtual visits, including urgent care video visits.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Spanning more than 200 care sites across the state, the organization unifies hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, behavioral health and employer health services. "On our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The platform provides 24/7, two-way communication with patients around their care, and intelligently triages patient questions and clinical concerns to the appropriate care team members.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD provides services for big tech giants like Amazon and for small primary and urgent care healthcare provider organizations. Moving forward, what do hospital and health system IT leaders need to know about telehealth companies like yours as the demand for virtual care increases?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Horner will also assume the role of President of Amwell Medical Group (AMG), the company’s clinical partner and a nationwide network of virtual care clinicians exclusively on the Amwell platform. With a focus on holistic patient care, AMG integrates medical and behavioral health practices to deliver a unified approach to wellness.

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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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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It is also a provider organization through its CenterWell arm, which includes home health care, pharmacy and primary care services. Operating as both payer and provider has allowed Humana to lean into value-based care, according to Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, the president of Humana’s home solutions business.

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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 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

MARCH 28, 2023

(Nasdaq: WBA) has been building out its health care delivery arm – which includes home-based care capabilities – for some time now, just like its retailer competitors. Pairing primary care and home-based care capabilities is a way to drive value-based care moving forward. There’s good reason for that.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

– Ambetter Virtual Access is a new, innovative health plan that will support affordable and convenient access to licensed virtual primary care providers as well as access to specialists, mental health providers and a Care Team to assist with navigating the platform and in-network resources. Group Health at Teladoc Health.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 12, 2023

Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships: HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care HealthJoy , a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care.

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Home Health Care

MAY 19, 2023

Now, Humana is focused on accelerating value-based care and integrating all of its services that fall under the larger CenterWell brand, which includes home-based care, primary care and pharmacy services. We have partnered with organizations like Heal, which provides primary care at home.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. Why is proactive, predictive patient oversight important in today's healthcare industry?

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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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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. More than 10 years in the making. The FCC's telehealth fund has awarded Queen's Health Systems nearly $1 million.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2023

Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Coordinating and integrating across multiple vendors can be frustrating and expensive.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The CenterWell brand includes the company’s range of payer-agnostic health care offerings, including senior-focused primary care. Humana and CenterWell have been bullish on value-based care and Medicare Advantage, Benoit said, mainly because that’s where they see the future of home health going.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2023

The mission was to scale a hospital-at-home program pioneered by Johns Hopkins University. Advocate Health Enterprises is one of the largest integrated health systems in the U.S. In December, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health merged , creating one of the five largest hospital systems in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“To improve patient outcomes, we have to involve a patient’s family and significant others in their care, because it must extend beyond the four walls of the hospital,” says Dr. Reetu Singh, senior medical director, clinical documentation integrity at AdventHealth. And that’s the future – this is what patients want.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

Founded toward the end of 2018, Plano, Texas-based Resilient provides hospital-at-home, SNF-at-home and traditional home health care services. Resilient and Medical City were among the first hospital-at-home enablers in the U.S. Resilient and Medical City were among the first hospital-at-home enablers in the U.S.

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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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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

At Optum, one of his main focuses was to help reduce the costs of personal care for patients while reducing avoidable hospital admissions. His main priority in his new role as president of the organization’s hospital substitution model is to complete the ecosystem of care in the home and more efficient services.

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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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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. These are people who, frankly, just need these services the most and benefit from care being brought to them.

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

John is an expert in integrated health systems, health care delivery and value-based care models. Beyond the “usual suspect” service lines such as cardiovascular and orthopedics, one of the biggest trends in healthcare is a renewed focus on primary care. Integrated Care and Consumerization.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The budget provides greater authority to the State Mental Health Office to sanction community hospitals that do not have the number of psychiatric beds cited in their operating certifications and to expand the office’s loan repayment program for licensed mental health professionals.

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

#2: Healthcare consumers will turn to integrated healthcare systems. Why do today’s healthcare consumers seek out integrated systems? A viable alternative and the only care option during the height of the pandemic, telehealth has naturally cooled off a bit. In a word, convenience.

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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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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

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. Provide guidance defining integrated care for pediatric populations and data sharing approaches to guide and evaluate integrated care models.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This could include continuous glucose monitoring devices that are integrated with mobile apps and better pulse oximetry and cardiac rhythm detection built into wearables. And expanding telehealth’s use by pharmacists could help patients better manage their medication therapy to improve outcomes and avoid hospital readmissions.”.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Because data isn't always integrated seamlessly across various points along a patient's healthcare journey, providers and other organizations don't always get a full picture of patient compliance and tracking of outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

To effectively analyze gaps in care and better serve patients, providers need all patient information in one place. Healow Insights brings together data from payers, hospitals, health centers, urgent care centers and other EHRs into a single source. MGMA reports that manually posting payments and denials takes 2.10

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