Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our patient-centric service is changing that, one visit at a time,” Kristen Helton, director of Amazon Care, said. We’ve brought our on-demand urgent and primary care services to patients nationwide. ” So far, Amazon Care has been geared toward employers – not the general public or the rapidly growing Medicare population.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

On October 20, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“ CMS ”) Innovation Center (“ Innovation Center ”) published a white paper detailing its vision for the next ten years: a health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high quality, affordable, person-centered care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, AI is increasingly being used by provider organizations to develop personalized risk profiles for certain diseases based on family history, genetic and biomarker mapping, social influences, as well as activities and behaviors that may have emerged since the interaction with the care team/provider.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. Here, we see that Latino/Hispanic and Black people were more likely to lack an ongoing relationship with a physician or primary care clinic.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2023

The first-of-its-kind platform will simplify and enhance the entire patient journey—from getting to a primary care appointment to accessing critical prescriptions and groceries. Providers and payers, including Medicare and Medicaid, lack the visibility and infrastructure to execute on these programs effectively.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The agreement is designed to improve the health of Highmark’s members by providing accessible, high quality, cost effective, patient centered care through member collaboration and innovation. These models incentivize providers to deliver timely and appropriate care while prioritizing preventive measures.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Passed in 2016, The Cures Act requires that electronic health record (EHR) systems provide patient-facing application programming interfaces (APIs) to maintain federal certifications. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Uneven investment in healthcare technology. Regulatory compliance.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Passed in 2016, The Cures Act requires that electronic health record (EHR) systems provide patient-facing application programming interfaces (APIs) to maintain federal certifications. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. Uneven investment in healthcare technology. Regulatory compliance.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This subsequently generated sufficient claims data for Carrot Health to analyze and estimate the impact of disruption. We opted to focus on compliance levels among Medicare Advantage populations for specific procedures, tests, and care interventions. These included: – Substance abuse (-0.2%).

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Most of the pilots and initiatives I’ll speak about today are in the New York market, specifically when we talk about incorporating home care in the broader sense and addressing the social determinants of health for our population. We are working with a large, regional health plan in the city.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2024

Instead, VBC incentivizes healthcare providers based on patient outcomes and the quality of care delivered. This focus on results aligns well with the needs of CKD and ESRD patients, who require ongoing management and preventive measures. Improved health outcomes: Early intervention and preventive care enhance long-term health.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The expansion allows for people to start the cycle of primary care treatment and follow up on other treatment options that their doctor or primary provider has recommended for them, without having to worry about high costs, deductibles or transportation issues.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In spite of these barriers, and to help address them, states have implemented innovations to improve integrated care coordination for CYSHCN. Federal agencies have also prioritized and supported advancing integrated care. Training modules include advocacy, emergency planning, and personal health records, among others.[23]

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

For well over a decade, we've seen this challenge progressively worsen partially because we have had a relatively fixed number of graduates from medical programs since 1997, when Medicare started limiting the funding for these programs. In addition to the limited number of professionals, our population is aging and living longer.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Figure 1 displays a consolidated overview of the “Framework for Public Health-Health Care System Collaboration.” A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So medication and health compliance, discussing care plans, and certainly even follow up to the primary care provider or that referring physician is impactful. And it’s great to know that HeartFlow is currently covered by Medicare nationally, and 98% of commercial payers in the US.

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