Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. Payvider in this context not to be confused with payvider meaning large health systems that handle both care delivery and claims processing, such as UPMC, Kaiser and Geisinger.)

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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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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2024

The senior care company Lifespark has been building out its value-based care model for years. Now, it has added in-home urgent care, a key service line for a company taking on upside and downside risk. Ultimately, the goal is to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits or hospitalizations. The costs are horrible.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Staffing a 24/7 platform.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Although the statewide mandates have been lifted for care delivery, we still use telehealth as a solution for our patients who feel safer at home. The virtual care technology vendors Albert Einstein Medical Center currently uses include Teladoc, Doximity, EMOpti and Zoom. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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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 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.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This podcast is a must-listen for healthcare leaders and primary care practitioners seeking innovative ways to enhance patient access, optimize care delivery, and address challenges like burnout. You guys gave the credibility for other hospitals to follow suit. It sounds crazy now, but back when you started, Lee.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

The new subscription-based telehealth program also expands the system's virtual care offerings. THE LARGER TREND With the onset of COVID-19, health systems have been looking to digital tools to improve patient engagement, clinical care and patient outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. How can digital front doors work with enhanced health benefits, such as in-home care and treatment, virtual primary care and therapeutics to empower a population to take control of their health for the better?

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected 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

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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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. “We

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For instance, he said that Optum is increasingly helping people manage urgent care issues in the home. Nearly 80% of these cases avoid hospitalization, and we expect to expand this capability to a broader mix of patients in the years ahead.”

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Home care has become a crucial part of care plans for primary care providers (PCPs), according to a new value-based care report conducted by Humana (NYSE: HUM). On the primary care front, Humana’s CenterWell is one of the largest value-based primary care groups in the country.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

Joining the ranks of over 150,000 providers on the athenahealth network, ZoomCare aligns with hundreds of urgent care organizations conducting more than nine million encounters yearly. Streamlining operations and reducing denial rates emerged as critical factors in achieving scalability for the organization.

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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

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.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Many consumers seek virtual care when they have symptoms, or to fulfill specific care needs. Others rely on virtual primary care platforms, often through an app, as their pathway to healthcare services instead of going to an in-person primary care physician.

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Home Health Care

JULY 24, 2024

Seniors who have difficulty leaving their homes or accessing traditional medical facilities have a new option for health care: mobile, medical home care visits from Horizon Care Services. Horizon Care Services is already a successful home care, care management and senior placement provider in Florida.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

Hospitals and health systems can also achieve promotional success by packaging service lines (e.g., urgent care, acute care, primary care, ambulatory care, Telehealth, etc.)—especially especially if they offer something their competitors do not. patients, clinicians, staff, management, etc.)

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Implementation Timeline The enterprise-wide implementation will begin with care programs for colonoscopy procedures, specialty pharmacy, and congestive heart failure, with expansion to additional programs by the end of the year.

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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. Measuring the impact of virtual care. More than 10 years in the making. A massive increase in telehealth visits.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 19, 2023

Innovation in Healthcare Via In-Person and Virtual Direct Primary Care Plans According to a poll, less than half of Americans are satisfied with the quality of U.S. Long wait times to see a doctor, short appointments, and lack of coordination between care settings leave patients feeling like no one cares about them or their health.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s.

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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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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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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” See my Hot Points below, discussing my views on the morphing of health care real estate from Pill Hill and inpatient hospitals to the home and closer-to-home sites. ” you might ask. ” JLL polled 4,037 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

We examined a corpus of >100 million free-text notes written by thousands of different healthcare workers at our hospitals and clinics to quantify information overload and scatter. Imagine a primary care clinician responsible for a patient with 5 different medical problems, all of which require adjustment of medications and 3-month check-ins.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

As we start at this fairly nascent moment in the hospital-to-home movement and migration in the U.S., consumers found that only 5% of people had received in-home healthcare in the past year, while 89% of people received care at a doctor’s office or hospital/medical facility, in-person.

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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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