Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Proactive MD has a total of 63 health centers and serves approximately 60,000 patients across several states. Proactive MD's mission is to offer high-quality, low-cost primary and preventive care directly to employers in onsite and near-site clinics. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2025

What You Should Know: – Hone Health , a telehealth clinic specializing in personalized hormone optimization and longevity care secures $33M in Series A funding round led by Tribe Capital with participation from prominent investors like PIF, Republic Capital, and Vibe VC, brings Hone Health’s total funding to $39M.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – New Jersey’s leading health network, Hackensack Meridian Health, is set to revolutionize primary care access with the upcoming launch of HMH 24/7, an AI-driven platform that seamlessly integrates virtual and in-person care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SCAN Group has entered into the in-home senior primary care space with the launch of Welcome Health. Dr. Scott Weingarten will serve as CEO of the independent primary care medical group moving forward. Welcome Health will care for predominantly Medicare Advantage patients,” Weingarten told Home Health Care News.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. PROPOSAL So CMH launched a digital front-door patient experience project, powered by artificial intelligence. Convert online traffic into qualified patient leads.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Stale data can mean inadequate care and missed opportunities to manage medications or chronic conditions. It also means higher operating costs, as support staff use inaccurate chase lists for patient engagement and routine preventative care like vaccines and screenings. Eroded patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

The health system's expansion into remote patient monitoring is meant to directly address two of these issues. "We also prioritized innovative features, such as a sophisticated alert system and patient communication platform, so RPM is seamless and easy to use for clinicians, staff and patients."

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

THE PROBLEM The massive health system recently set three goals: Improve patient outcomes by monitoring and actively managing patients with chronic diseases, with a specific focus on remote medication titration to get more patients to guidelines. More than 80% of patients are using Cadence devices 16 days or more a month.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. Consumerism has shifted the healthcare paradigm from provider-driven to patient-driven healthcare decisions and patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2024

Ovatient's team of virtual providers and care team members work closely with health system partners to provide patients with connected, coordinated and convenient virtual care. "Patients with an established relationship with a MetroHealth provider can take advantage of virtual care services.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Now, as the pressures of delivering care during the pandemic prompt one out of five healthcare workers to leave the profession – and with primary care physician retirement rates set to increase dramatically by 2026 – the future of care delivery, patient experience and health outcomes will increasingly depend on automated support.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. " Patient access centers.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Among all industries in the world, healthcare is the one that's all about people – people such as doctors and nurses who are helping other people, patients, get better. Despite people playing such an important role in the industry, healthcare is not known for being savvy in terms of patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"The pandemic also presented new access to care challenges and opportunities to rethink what blended digital and in-person care could look like if built around the patient experience," Karim said. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

What You Should Know: – Aligned Marketplace , a leading platform connecting self-insured employers with advanced primary care (APC) providers secures $3M in seed funding led by existing investors A* and Maverick Ventures. With healthcare costs continuing to rise, employers are seeking innovative solutions to manage expenses.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 7, 2020

More use of primary care services also drove greater satisfaction and spending per consumer at a rate of $11 more spending per person. But Walmart has been expanding its primary care services — so we’ll watch to see in 2021’s J.D. The post Pharmacies Grow for Primary Care On-Ramps – And J.D.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models. The post New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

What You Should Know: Cedars-Sinai is expanding virtual healthcare for children and Spanish speakers in California through its mobile app Cedars-Sinai Connect, a fast-growing online option that allows patients to quickly access top healthcare professionals for acute, chronic and preventive care. and weekends from 8 a.m.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 14, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , a virtual healthcare provider, just announced a major step towards making quality primary care accessible to all. – Patients in all 50 states can now use their insurance when seeking virtual visits with board-certified doctors on the HealthTap platform.

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Clearwave Inc

JUNE 3, 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutes Family medicine and primary care practices serve as the front line of healthcare for patients of all ages. Family medicine and primary care practices offering online booking are much more likely to capture these new patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Backlogs for surgery, imaging, and diagnostic services will prevent hospitals from recovering a $20 billion loss of revenue, spurred by the shutdown of elective procedures from March to May 2020. The CDC says that nearly nine in 10 Americans live within five miles of a community pharmacy, making primary care readily available.

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NCQA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cost Sharing Causes People to Delay Needed Care Half the people in the U.S. Weve scared people away from the system by charging them high co-pays and deductibles, and weve added to the burden of debt for people with serious care needs. We have a measurement challenge when it comes to specialty care.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

VP, Strategic Solutions at Definitive Healthcare Primary care is at a tipping point. However, in the past, primary care delivery has been dictated by changes in payor-led reimbursement models. Amazon is also making moves to dominate physician markets, buying out primary care practice One Medical.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. We’re talking about a team sport here — to most effectively benefit patients’ outcomes from prevention through diagnosis and treatment.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I’m looking forward to seeing how AI is being applied to help clinicians, patients, and other staff members provide better patient experiences and outcomes. Primary care physicians (PCPs) are on the frontlines when it comes to diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the precursor to dementia.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Pharmacies, department stores, convenience stores, and technology companies are all shifting the standard of care toward retail or online centers that provide care at the same place you already shop for household supplies, groceries, or prescriptions.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Demand for self-care, preventive nutrition and at-home consumption that makes health. The second graphic from IRI’s May 2022 Client Engagement work illustrates several aspects to self-care at home that’s holistic, covering food-as-medicine demand, home hygiene, well-being, health & beauty, and sustainability.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The CenterWell brand includes the company’s range of payer-agnostic health care offerings, including senior-focused primary care. Humana and CenterWell have been bullish on value-based care and Medicare Advantage, Benoit said, mainly because that’s where they see the future of home health going.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 13, 2023

Payers and providers nationwide will soon be able to use the same platform they already use for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) and prescription delivery to have groceries and OTC items delivered directly to patient homes, facilitated by Uber Eats. Uber Health’s platform is designed to address these pain points.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias. Patients prefer familiarity and personalized care, and research shows this can lead them to choose a provider of the same race or ethnic background. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many physicians work 50 hours a week : seeing up to 20 patients a day, spending an average of 4.5 hours entering electronic health records (EHR data), and managing patient loads of 2,000 or more. With faster service, they also deliver a better provider and patient experience. In addition, the U.S. Two million were denied.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care. An integrated, systems and requirements-driven digital approach will put the whole patient back at the center of the digital ecosystem.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Today, physicians, patients and payers benefit from virtual care options that can be scaled to provide users with access to a wide range of providers, healthcare services and diagnostics that enable remote monitoring and testing which is especially important for chronic condition management.

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