HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But in addition to technology innovations, I’m also hoping we will hear about other people and process topics such as how to set up virtual care teams and how to rethink primary care physician compensation to better align around adoption of automation and team-based care.

Patient Experience 135

Patient Experience Nursing Primary Care Patient Safety 135

Bill Of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. Moreover, the AMA’s own Workforce Explorer tool suggests that NPs are playing a vital role in expanding access to care. Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S.

General Practice 90

General Practice Primary Care Nursing Patient Safety 90

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 18, 2023

In 2023, traditional pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens will continue to move into the primary care and home health space, creating an expanded healthcare marketplace and more options than ever for consumers. But this decentralization of care poses consistency and quality challenges that are quickly coming to the fore.

Life Sciences 98

Life Sciences Patient Safety Primary Care Medicaid 98

NASHP

MARCH 17, 2025

Conducting quality assurance, monitoring, and improvement to ensure high-quality perinatal care , such as ensuring high-quality patient care and safety in lower birth-volume hospitals (e.g., standardizing clinical care, addressing barriers to implementing patient safety protocols in these settings).

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Quality Assurance Hospitals Patient Safety 52

Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Other maps detail live virtual visits (a large category with many players like Kareo, Updox, eVisit, Doxy.me), next-gen primary care (such as Oak Street Health, One Medical, and Parsley Health), and asynchronous virtual visits (with Zipnosis, 98point6, or Babylon, etc.).

Hospitals 156

Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 156

Healthcare ECONOMIST

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For drugs with prices or price increases that have been deemed reasonable: Documentation that patients meet clinical eligibility criteria should represent a light administrative burden, including acceptance of clinician attestation in lieu of more formal medical record documentation unless documentation is critical to ensure patient safety.

Primary Care 115

Primary Care Patient Safety Pharmaceuticals 115

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The purpose of this directive was to improve the transfer of laboratory data to point-of-care clinicians to help us make better, more informed decisions for our patients. Despite the valuable promise of synchronizing patient records across the continuum, the day-to-day experience of EMR users does not match their lofty goals.

Patient Safety 98

Patient Safety Primary Care Healthcare Integration 98

HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, just as patients find it difficult to see multiple specialists and understand how all their recommendations fit together, so too can it be daunting to understand how multiple, self-serve solutions work together within the larger context of a person’s whole health ( complexity ).

Patient Experience 98

Patient Experience Integration Patient Safety Primary Care 98

HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Late last year, Redpoint Global found that 80% of patients prefer digital channels to communicate with their healthcare providers. Multi-channel.

Urgent Care 98

Urgent Care Patient Safety Primary Care Patient Experience 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Primary Care Healthcare 52

Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Health care access is a challenge in rural and urban areas, cities and suburbs, and across more demographic groups than you might realize, as we see wait times grow for appointments, primary care shortages, and delays in screening plaguing health systems around the world.

Patient Safety 71

Patient Safety Nursing Hospitals Primary Care 71

Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

The organization’s network includes hospice, home health, palliative care, grief services, all-inclusive elder care, primary care, physician services and more. Empath Health is the country’s largest not-for-profit health system. Finally, Fahrney has worked in cybersecurity for more than 18 years.

Home Care 98

Home Care Medicaid Patient Safety Primary Care 98

HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Today, many hospitals are already part of healthcare networks combined with primary care clinics, allied care providers, insurers, and other agencies working together to coordinate and deliver a range of care services within their communities.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Patient Safety Population Health Integration 52

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

with 15 clinics throughout Florida, was awarded $956,655 for the purchase of laptops and telemedicine software, to expand telehealth capacities and improve access for clients who face transportation challenges and other barriers to care. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. . – Southeast, Inc.

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Remote Care Hospitals Urgent Care 98

Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past decade we have seen more and more specialization and levels of care introduced. We now have telehealth visits, retail clinics, direct-primary-care, and more. Issues with Transitional Care When a poor transition happens, patients suffer. More fragmentation = more transitions. Naylor M, Keating SA.

Care Transition 52

Care Transition Nursing Primary Care General Practice 52

Healthcare Leadership

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For more information, we discussed this model with a #hcldr blog post by Steven Daviss, MD, DFAPA ( @HITshrink ): Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and Behavioral Health Integration. Another example comes from the very institution that William Osler, M.D. helped found, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Primary Care Accountability Integration 52

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

by FDA and Digital Health Regulation - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Related Stories A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare Rasu Shrestha, UPMC and Healthcare Innovation – Harlow On Healthcare Dr. Rob Lamberts, Direct Primary Care, and the Future of Healthcare – Harlow on Healthcare.

Regulations 113

Regulations Healthcare Innovation Prevention Primary Care 113

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Providers need to take risks, whether they’re clinical risks, patient safety risks, readmission risks or financial. There are a number of risk-based models out there, and this year there were conversations around the CMMI programs with a direct contract as the primary care first, and VBID as well.

Nursing 98

Nursing Home Care Medicare Patient Safety 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

As part of the integration, DAX Express for Epic will deliver everything clinicians need in one place to create a comprehensive note quickly, decreasing cognitive load, increasing provider satisfaction, and improving the quality of patient care.

Integration 52

Integration Nursing Patient Safety Hospitals 52

KHN

OCTOBER 1, 2020

His group, an IKS Health client, always seeks patient consent, Ting said. Janis Ulevich, a retiree in Palo Alto, California, declines her primary care doctor’s remote scribe. ” Some patients may not have the opportunity to decline. Scribes aren’t for everyone, though.

Doctors 90

Doctors Law Firms Primary Care Hospitals 90

HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

Pearl Health and Story Health partner to improve treatment for Medicare patients suffering from cardiovascular disease. This partnership will give primary care providers access to Story Health, which provides members with treatment optimization, care planning, and precision sub-specialist escalations at scale.

Physical Therapy 52

Physical Therapy Primary Care Rehabilitation Medicare 52

Health Populi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s important to note that central to the CHPA Educational Foundation’s mission is serving people with lower health literacy as well as reaching consumers living in underserved communities or “health deserts,” geographies lacking health care services – in particular, primary care.

Patient Experience 62

Patient Experience Primary Care Healthcare Patient Safety 62

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care A modern behavioral health system of care is fully integrated into the continuum of health care services, including primary and specialty care settings, and extends into homes and communities to ensure holistic and coordinated support.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

by FDA and Digital Health Regulation - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Related Stories A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare Rasu Shrestha, UPMC and Healthcare Innovation – Harlow On Healthcare Dr. Rob Lamberts, Direct Primary Care, and the Future of Healthcare – Harlow on Healthcare.

Regulations 60

Regulations Healthcare Innovation Prevention Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

by FDA and Digital Health Regulation - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Related Stories A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare Rasu Shrestha, UPMC and Healthcare Innovation – Harlow On Healthcare Dr. Rob Lamberts, Direct Primary Care, and the Future of Healthcare – Harlow on Healthcare.

Regulations 60

Regulations Healthcare Innovation Prevention Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

by FDA and Digital Health Regulation - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Related Stories A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare Rasu Shrestha, UPMC and Healthcare Innovation – Harlow On Healthcare Dr. Rob Lamberts, Direct Primary Care, and the Future of Healthcare – Harlow on Healthcare.

Regulations 60

Regulations Healthcare Innovation Prevention Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

by FDA and Digital Health Regulation - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Related Stories A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare Rasu Shrestha, UPMC and Healthcare Innovation – Harlow On Healthcare Dr. Rob Lamberts, Direct Primary Care, and the Future of Healthcare – Harlow on Healthcare.

Regulations 60

Regulations Healthcare Innovation Prevention Primary Care 60

NASHP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

States are seeking to better understand the extent, location, and cause of health care workforce shortages and strategies that address immediate concerns in addition to longer-term solutions to recruit and retain a workforce that can meet the diverse and evolving needs of the U.S.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Nursing Patient Safety Hospitals 52

Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2024

Most Americans follow some kind of eating regime, seeking energy, more protein, and healthy aging, according to the annual 2024 Food & Health Survey published this week by the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

Accountability 71

Accountability Doctors Medicaid Nursing 71

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

In the five years since Dr. Topol looked for AI to bolster the human-touch in health care, we’ve lived, worked, and muddled our way through the COVID-19 pandemic and witnessed the growing epidemic of burnout among clinicians, the front-line of medical care.

Nursing 71

Nursing Healthcare Life Sciences Hospitals 71

Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Incorporating predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence allows for the calculation of risk scores for individual patients while forecasting their respective needsthis refines the process of scheduling appointments and aids in lowering instances of no-shows.

Healthcare Providers 52

Healthcare Providers Healthcare Medical Practitioners Patient Safety 52

Sequence Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The incorporation of clinical decision support tools within EMR platforms furnishes instantaneous recommendations tailored to individual patients’ profiles, thereby improving the standard of care delivered as well as safeguarding against risks associated with patient safety.

Integration 52

Integration Healthcare Providers Healthcare Regulations 52

Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2024

Patients’ experience with health care in the U.S. adult consumers’ perspectives defined “patient experience” (PX) as, “The sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.” The study into U.S.

Patient Experience 62

Patient Experience Healthcare Patient Safety Primary Care 62

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done.

Patient Safety 81

Patient Safety Prevention Primary Care Patient Experience 81

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Joint Commission demarcates boarding over four hours as a patient safety risk. When hospital capacity reaches 85%, boarding time nearly doubles to eight hours, further complicating safety and quality concerns. Consider that in 2023, MGMA found 37% of practices reported an increase in patient no-show rates.

Telemedicine 344

Telemedicine Healthcare Hospitals Nursing 344

Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

So, then I pursued my family nurse practitioner, got my master’s FNP, worked in college health, I worked in primary care, urgent care. So, at this point I have a bunch of ICU experience, a bunch of critical care experience, and never had any ER experience. Again, I had no ER experience.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Doctors Performance improvement 52

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

In order to achieve the desired levels of quality improvement and labor cost savings, healthcare systems must use new care models that leverage technology and virtual care in all acute care settings. Virtual care elevates bedside care, allowing our valued clinicians to function at the top of their licenses.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Life Sciences Patient Safety Primary Care 98