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.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the state of Pennsylvania, only urgent medical care was permitted for several months, which created an instant barrier to receiving routine, follow-up and preventive care. Most Albert Einstein Medical Center providers converted their face-to-face visits to virtual ones during the height of the pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

America spends half of what other developed countries spend on primary care, despite it being the single area of healthcare that has proven to deliver actual cost savings with better population health results. People stop seeking out primary care in the times when preventive, proactive care could make the most difference.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., Highly recognizable brand names like CVS MinuteClinics, Walmart Care Clinics, Target Clinics, Walgreens Healthcare Clinics, and new companies like Optum Health, Luna Physical Therapy, Roman, and HIMS are disrupting the status quo.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For example, a report from Accenture detailed that AI may offload as much as 30% of administrative tasks from nurses, freeing their time to focus on direct patient care. Digital health tools can alleviate this burden by automating routine tasks, providing decision support, and facilitating better patient communication.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2024

The model is also expected to reduce Medicare and Medicaid expenditures by preventing or delaying long-term nursing home stays and reducing hospital, emergency department and post-acute care usage. “We We want to do whatever it takes to keep people out of the nursing home,” Lifespark COO Matt Kinne told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The physician they select can provide annual exams, preventive care, diagnosis and treatment for health concerns and management of chronic conditions. The providers are available for phone or video primary care visits six days a week. They can write prescriptions and refer members to in-person care, when necessary.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

During the last 50 years, we have built a health care system focused on facilities, primarily bringing patients to these locations to receive the care they need. Many see the home as an opportunity to create the seamless care continuum that is often discussed, though the current health care system is highly fragmented.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. For example, over 70% of patients are willingness to use a video virtual care visit based on the claim cost of $78.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

While healthcare facilities are still dedicated to providing the best care to patients impacted by COVID-19, it is imperative that healthcare practices, especially those like skilled nursing facilities, take cybersecurity seriously to prevent data leaks, care disruption, financial setbacks, and more. About Avi Philipson.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Among its home- and community-based care initiatives, Aetna is doubling down on the use of telehealth and leaning into the CVS HealthHUB network, which offers seniors a range of services, from preventative care all the way to acute care. We’ve had really positive feedback from our members about this.”.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In general, value-based care allows health care organizations to be preventative, as opposed to reactive, Erin Denholm, chief nursing officer at DispatchHealth, noted. Our health care system is very reactive,” she said. The company operates across 30 states in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions Employers incur approximately $575 billion each year due to their employees’ poor health, and the number of employees who spend at least $100,000 a year on medical care rose by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.,

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 13, 2023

John Dapello: I was very blessed beginning from a very early age to be involved in home care, home health care, and hospice through my family. As time went on, having the opportunity to work with my mother in nursing homes without walls, very different from what we see today in home care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If we’ve got a nurse in the home seeing a patient, we get a member summary so we know if the prescriptions have been filled recently or not. In the Atlanta market, we can reach out to Dispatch if we have a patient that needs urgent care in the home,” Benoit said. In its case, that specialty is in-home urgent care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Taylor Abo-Hamzy, chief strategy officer at Care2U, has been named a 2024 Future Leader by Home Health Care News. Empowering.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.

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Home Health Care

JULY 13, 2023

Historically, cancer care delivery models have focused entirely on hospital and clinic-based services,” Kathi Mooney, a professor at the University of Utah’s college of nursing and a co-leader of cancer control and population sciences at Huntsman, said.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2024

Through collaborations with federally qualified health centers and health systems like MUSC, these clinics help divert urgent care and emergency department visits by providing accurate assessments and treatments within the school setting. McElligott M.D., MSCR, Executive Medical Director for the MUSC Center for Telehealth.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level. Some come from external providers such as urgent care clinics or telehealth services. delivery and technology infrastructure.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

NYSE: HUM), it’s transforming into one of the biggest home-based care companies around. But then again, the company that originally launched in the 60s as a nursing home provider is no stranger to transformation. This is where we focus all of our home-based care and our home-based delivery. For Humana Inc.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

These models incentivize providers to deliver timely and appropriate care while prioritizing preventive measures. This team will work closely with Bridges providers to address any gaps in care, enhance patient access to medical services, reduce costs, and improve the overall patient experience.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

While healthcare systems are there to care for those in need, they also feel the straining effects of their overextended providers and overwhelmed ER staff being used to treat preventable illnesses and behavioral health needs , the majority of which are distributed unequally in our communities.

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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 Success

OCTOBER 17, 2024

HELPCare, LLC delivers affordable, direct primary care by eliminating insurance payments, offering ample appointment time, and focusing on personalized, preventive care. Doctor, PA, or nurse practitioner. Then that's why you have the stop loss policy to prevent. Lee Aase: You're getting a relationship.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One in five respondents said having to repeat forms at a doctor’s office makes them less likely to return, which may impact healthcare costs since regular examinations and preventive care are less expensive than urgent care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. I disagree, but it’s on life support. We have the tools to revive it.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In Episode 53 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience Jim Cagliostro is joined by Creston Tate, DO, Medical Director of WellSpan Health Urgent Care to discuss the challenges of hiring healthcare workers in the wake of ‘’The Great Resignation.’’. Demand for urgent care has intensified since 2020. Episode Introduction.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– The Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, was awarded $643,231 for the purchase of telemedicine carts and telemedicine software, to provide a significant portion of non-urgent care remotely to a patient population that is both rural and low-income. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Southeast, Inc.

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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. Wolters Kluwer Health and Laerdal Medical partner to launch vrClinicals for Nursing. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 13, 2023

According to McKinsey, “the cost to treat the diabetes of a patient with depression is, on average, almost $20,000 higher than for a patient without depression, due to factors such as medical complications, reduced access to preventive care, and challenges with illness self-management.”

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 5, 2022

Denial of payment requests delayed or prevented payments for services that providers had already delivered. The article also pointed out the role of prior authorization as “an important patient safety, cost-saving, and waste-prevention tool.”. 1] CMS, Medicare Managed Care Manual , Ch.

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NASHP

APRIL 15, 2022

Use crisis services, emergency rooms, urgent care, or inpatient stays as the sole source of care; Experienced two or more emergency room visits or two or more hospitalizations due to SMI or SUD in the past 12 months. Nursing Home Residents Transitioning to the Community. Recuperative care (medical respite).

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