Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It's unlikely the vendor will step into fully capitated contracts right away, but its CEO said there are degrees of risk Teladoc will take on: moving from clinical measures of care, to risk corridors and ultimately into capitation.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2025

It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. AI and virtual care models continued to be the craze in healthcare, owing to their clear support for improving clinician productivity and patient outcomes.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mass General Brigham’s Home Hospital, in collaboration with the New England Center and Home for Veterans (NECHV), has launched a groundbreaking home hospital program for veterans experiencing homelessness. Their clinical outcomes end up being worse because they go back into the hospital and back and forth.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The program focuses on improving patient outcomes, streamlining the operational flow of emergency departments, enhancing observation unit throughput, shortening hospital stays, reducing unnecessary hospital use and decreasing readmission rates. The pilot took place for six months, March through August,” Davies said. .”

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Princess Alexandra Hospital offers data for medication harm research A research project from the University of Queensland School of Pharmacy has started collaborating with the Princess Alexandra Hospital to use digital technologies in reducing rehospitalisation cases due to medication harm.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. 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. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We have three hospitals in Madison that we own and operate. University Hospital, American Family Children's Hospital, and East Madison Hospital. Um, not all rural hospitals are an attractive, you know, acquisition for larger systems because of the cost involved. But those patients still need and deserve care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

WHY IT MATTERS By offering programs such as medically-tailored meals, prescribing fresh produce and generally offering better nutrition education, hospitals and health systems can better address diet-related chronic medical conditions, the organizations say, and reduce down-the-line healthcare costs.

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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. "Urgent care on-demand is also on our horizon."

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 telephone visits.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The hospital-at-home (HaH) model of care has gained significant momentum in recent years and is transforming how care is delivered to patients. This model enhances patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes by providing reliable, high-quality acute care in the comfort of patients’ homes.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This shift has increased the need for a larger home-based care workforce, one filled with individuals that understand the ins and outs of treating people in their homes. Rochester, New York-based WellBe Senior Medical works with health plans to provide home-based medical care to patients who are facing multiple complex health challenges.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“Nearly 80% of these cases avoid hospitalization, and we expect to expand this capability to a broader mix of patients in the years ahead.” LHC Group specifically provides care under the Optum Health umbrella, and within that, in home and community care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago had only two entry points for patients looking to receive care – calling the centralized access center or walking into the emergency room. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Prior to the growth, adoption and use of its patient portal, Ann & Robert H.

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Healthcare Success

MARCH 10, 2025

A lot of times when we think about the world of building doctor referrals, particularly for providers like hospitals and health systems, it's really where people are thinking. Likely you would understand that in the hospital health system space. But you know, hospitals, this was nascent, you guys sort of helped build that category.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2024

Primary care has also benefited from virtualization of services. According to a study published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health , telehealth offered by primary care physicians rose from 5.3% before the pandemic to 46.2% to $186.10

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

"After someone is seen by their primary care physician, they can use telehealth to check in and spot-check, so the patient doesn't need to physically come into the office as much, but they still can get the personalized care they need to help with their condition.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Are you interested in learning more about current state experiences in exploring and implementing global hospital budgets? Representatives from the Innovation Center will share more detail about the model’s hospital global budget and primary care investment goals and how they fit within the other core elements within the model.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Value-based healthcare with two-sided risk led to a savings of about $14 million over two years, according to the Florida-based insurance plan and national primary care provider company that overse | The collaborative effort by Florida Blue and Aledade not only led to $14 million in savings, but also a reduction in hospitalizations and emergency department (..)

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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 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 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2023

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 27, 2023

has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center. What You Should Know: – The U.S.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. "The Signify deal coincides with the ongoing trend of healthcare shifting from the hospital to the home, and as technology plays a bigger role in remote care models.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

– This entity integrates Emory’s growing primary care service line and affiliate physician network to expand value-based care (VBC) – a focus on quality and outcomes while containing costs – to more than 350,000 individuals across Georgia. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2025

Baptist Health, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a faith-based, nonprofit health system comprising six hospitals with more than 1,100 beds, a cancer center, four satellite emergency departments, and more than 200 patient access points of care throughout northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Primary care physicians who become associated with health systems more often steer their patients toward the organization’s services, increasing both utilization and care spending, according to a s | Recent study data outline physicians' tendency to point patients toward their associated health system's specialists, EDs and hospitals after (..)

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The traditional model of care, which is rooted in primary care physicians guiding care with aligned specialists and community hospitals, will continue to fade in the rear-view mirror in 2024. Retail healthcare will continue to supplant primary care. billion in 2023 to $6.4 billion by 2030.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They'll have streamlined access to their complete medical history from primary care and specialists, through to hospital interventions," Porter added. "We’re seeing far too much care occurring in hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As hospitals and health systems embrace digital transformation in earnest, they're apt to find improvements on any number of fronts, from staffing challenges (especially in acute care nursing), length of stay, 30-day readmissions, value-based care and chronic care management. It was ranked no.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Making health data more accessible to patients – not to mention doctors and health plans – is a priority for all hospitals and health systems today, as the final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Interoperability Rule mandates patient access. There is a transformative power of data in the hands of patients and families.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Shifting Primary Care to Preventative Care to Increase Engagement In contrast to many other countries, Americans have fewer physician visits and a lower ratio of practicing physicians and hospital beds per 1,000 population.

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