Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2022

These services initially used an internally developed telehealth platform with TV room kits and mobile carts as patient care connection points. Over time, it has become Intermountain's largest urgent care service and now is adding behavioral health and other care options. Expanding collaborations with other hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2023

Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is the only hospital in the state of Nebraska exclusively dedicated to pediatric care, serving a five-state region. In 2022, it nearly doubled its capacity with the opening of the Hubbard Center for Children, adding 100 beds for a total of 243 beds.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park added that the service will see specialist paediatric advice provided to clinicians in rural and regional hospitals and paramedics in non-emergency situations.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prisma Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in South Carolina, says that by integrating digital patient communications, it's decreased no-shows to the tune of $4 million in savings within the first two years. "As a result - we’re seeing more and more patients show up for their appointments."

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

"To ensure we offer the highest quality services to our recipients, AdventHealth went on a journey to provide telehealth services that can support the continuum of care, through COVID and beyond," she continued.

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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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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

And you don’t have to search long to find stories like this: A hospital in Missouri gave their staff panic buttons after hospital staff assaults rose from 40 in 2019 to 123 in 2020—more than a 200% increase. According to the American Nurses Association, 1 in 4 nurses is assaulted on the job.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. " Fourth, Care After COVID, or Long Haulers Program. "Care After COVID is an integrated and comprehensive care program for patients experiencing increasing COVID symptoms over 30 days," Skrzynski explained.

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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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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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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These visits were completed from among the 36 pediatric specialty services, including adolescent medicine, cardiology, cognitive behavioral therapy, ears-nose-and-throat, epilepsy, general surgery, infectious disease, orthopedic surgery, radiology, rehabilitative medicine, social work, urology, urgent care, and weight management.

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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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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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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. The health system's hospitals experienced an influx of patients of all ages with diverse medical conditions and inoculation statuses combating the virus.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Autumn Gertz, project manager at the computational epidemiology lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and project manager of the Outbreaks Near Me team, to get answers and a deep dive into the survey results. Are these results surprising or expected? What do people expect from AI in healthcare?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2024

It is no secret that health systems face growing competition from industries like venture-backed healthcare disruptors and health insurance that are offering increasingly specialized and consumer-focused virtual care offerings. 1 hospital in South Carolina." "In 2023, for the ninth consecutive year, U.S.

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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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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, if your hospital or medical practice does not have a mobile app, you can still set up (and enjoy the benefits of) geofencing. Healthcare marketers can set up a virtual boundary around their hospital or medical practice to target local consumers or providers anytime they’re nearby. bridal expos).

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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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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual primary care serves as the access point to bring individuals into the healthcare system and by bringing the healthcare system to the individual, where they want to receive care. You further say virtual primary care can improve access to care and improve the patient experience.

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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. "We use virtual-first primary care to take our digital offerings to patients to the next level.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The journey of the hospital-at-home model in the U.S. Much of it has transpired over the last few years, ever since the introduction of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, which allowed health systems to provide acute care in the home during the public health emergency (PHE). is a compelling one. How welcomed is that?

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Healthcare Success

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In a time when patients have more choices than ever–like walk-in health clinics, walk-in urgent care centers, telehealth, and other digital health solutions—this targeted approach enhances your visibility and supports a higher volume of qualified leads.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

Learning from Telehealth: A Precedent for AI Integration The anxiety surrounding technology’s impact on the patient-clinician relationship is not new. This precedent suggests that with careful implementation, generative AI can similarly be integrated into healthcare in a way that complements rather than replaces the human elements of care.

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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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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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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. Bottom-line, by using technology to support communication and care, Accenture explains, health care providers were able to maintain and often improve the care experience.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2024

. – In her new role as CIO, Trainor will oversee the design, implementation, and utilization of information services across the organization’s vast network of 46 hospitals, 370+ health and urgent care centers, and its cutting-edge Connected Health program.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services. So the moral of this story is if you delight the patient, you do good and do well.

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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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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2023

This can mean home health providers teaming up with health systems or high-acuity care companies. This can even mean high-acuity home-based care companies helping health systems, and hospitals extending their brick-and-mortar capabilities into the home setting. The company operates across 30 states in the U.S.

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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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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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