Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care. You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways. First you suggest it can provide high-touch care coordination for preventive care, chronic condition management and mental health services.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Virtual care has inherent advantages that help to prevent excess visits to the ED for all populations, including people with disabilities. Offering individuals with disabilities quality care from their homes can help to prevent avoidable visits.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings. Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. – This entity integrates Emory’s growing primary care service line and affiliate physician network to expand value-based care (VBC) – a focus on quality and outcomes while containing costs – to more than 350,000 individuals across Georgia. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. – This entity integrates Emory’s growing primary care service line and affiliate physician network to expand value-based care (VBC) – a focus on quality and outcomes while containing costs – to more than 350,000 individuals across Georgia. Its reach extends through partnerships with six regional affiliate hospitals, St.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For example, physical security is top of mind, as it involves securing physical locations and equipment to prevent unauthorized access and potential breaches. Securing cloud services and connected medical devices to prevent vulnerabilities. However, protecting patient identity is equally crucial.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Effective regulation of AI in healthcare requires appropriate authority and a thorough understanding of AI’s impact on patient care, with regulatory frameworks aimed at encouraging innovation, ensuring equitable access and addressing disparities in quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Comprehensive and Coordinated Care : Array’s collaboration with KeyCare enhances care coordination across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that patients receive treatment optimized to their mental health needs, irrespective of severity. Prevents unnecessary escalations in treatment.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

India’s healthcare system lacks an outcome-based, preventative approach, and struggles with a physician shortage that leads to long waits, fragmented care, and questionable specialist referrals. WhiteGlove addresses these challenges by focusing on long-term, preventative care and utilizing AI to digitize patient health histories.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 20, 2024

. – This collaboration aims to enhance the care of seniors with chronic conditions such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, and type 2 diabetes across Florida’s Tampa Bay and West Central regions. By identifying potential health issues early, the program aims to prevent hospitalizations and improve overall patient outcomes.

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Readiness Rounds

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s explore how your hospital can effectively meet these new requirements and enhance outcomes for older patients by integrating the CMS 2025 Age-Friendly Measures into your care model. Mentation: Preventing, identifying, treating, and managing cognitive impairments, including dementia, depression, and delirium.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2024

According to Matt Kroll, practice president of Assistive Care & Assistive Care State Programs at Bayada Home Health Care, despite challenges, Bayada has found that EVV helps prevent false claims. “It

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

A caregiver incentive program that increases caregiver productivity and retention while preventing caregiver burnout and improving quality of care for patients. An online occupational health solution that provides primary care health benefits for employees. – Perry. – Vitable Health. – Remote Focus.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Improved Health Outcomes: Purchasers recognize the potential of digital health to enhance the quality of care and improve patient outcomes. Cost Savings: Health plans, in particular, cite cost savings as a major motivator for investing in digital health. s only independent evaluator of digital health solutions.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

This allows emergency medicine provider care to be rendered at the EMS scene, preventing unnecessary transport and expense for minor conditions and first responder consultation for complicated conditions. Patient adoption requires having a frictionless user experience that delivers a high quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: In light of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Talkspace announced the results of its unique AI algorithm over the last three years of identifying individuals at risk of self-harm or suicide.

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p3care

JULY 30, 2024

Most MIPS quality measures seem to be generalized and specialties are seen scratching their heads. MVPs 2024 Saving the Day for Specialties in MIPS 2024 Reporting Services To prevent the vagueness of the MIPS services 2024, MVPs (MIPS Value Pathways) have been introduced. One such specialty is Emergency Medicine (EM).

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HIT Consultant

JULY 23, 2024

People of color, low-income families, rural residents, and immigrant communities often face a daunting array of barriers that prevent them from accessing quality preventive and diagnostic services. The consequences of these disparities are staggering, especially when it comes to diseases like lung cancer.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2024

VBC: A Shift from Quantity to Quality VBC represents a paradigm shift in healthcare, moving away from fee-for-service models that reward the number of patients seen and procedures performed. Instead, VBC incentivizes healthcare providers based on patient outcomes and the quality of care delivered.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2024

Specifically, home-based care – home health services, house calls and other ways of engaging with Medicare beneficiaries in the home – allows UnitedHealth Group and Optum to take a more preventative approach. That, in turn, benefits the company as well as the health care system as a whole, according to Witty.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With greater use of 5G technology, speed of bandwidth is increased, enabling expansion of care across many continents, regardless of boundaries or country borders. Connected health technologies can provide fast, chronic and preventive care to patients on-demand at any time or place. ON THE RECORD.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Government Accountability Office has posted this January 2022 Health Care Capsule to “summarize past GAO reports on concerns about nursing home quality of care, consumer information, and COVID-19. We also recommended ways to make it easier for consumers to compare the quality of care in nursing homes across the nation.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

"RPM provides a viable solution to improve patient care and outcomes, leverage team-based care, and maintain neutral workload for PCPs and care teams. "Together, we were able to identify a site where we could prove the concept, demonstrate success and socialize it internally to scale."

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Following a successful expansion in Arizona, Wider Circle now supports Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries by promoting preventive care and ensuring regular engagement with primary care physicians and care managers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Following a successful expansion in Arizona, Wider Circle now supports Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries by promoting preventive care and ensuring regular engagement with primary care physicians and care managers.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Robert Lauritzen, Cerebriu CEO, said: “This is a major step on our mission to automate radiology workflow, increasing quality of care by bringing our Smart Protocol technology within neuroimaging.” But the report warns that a lack of co-ordinated national support and funding could prevent further progress being made.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2024

The overarching narrative at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting “From Comfort to Cure,” calls providers to view treatment plans with an emphasis on quality of life. To answer this call, we must implement solutions that enable providers to maintain the quality of life without compromising the quality of care.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

CMS’ Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule will promote greater use of telehealth and other telecommunications technologies for providing behavioral health care services, encourage growth in the diabetes prevention program, and boost payment rates for vaccine administration.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I’ve witnessed firsthand how inadequate health care can drastically affect lives. One poignant example was my uncle, who, despite having access to care, faced a preventable diabetes complication that led to an amputation. This experience highlighted the critical importance of timely and preventive care.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 30, 2023

Years of OIG audits, evaluations, and investigations into hospice care have revealed that, while these services can provide great comfort to terminally ill patients and their families, there are significant problems with the program. The key priorities of OIG’s hospice oversight are below.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Advantages for Patients. Accountability.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Advantages for Patients. Accountability.

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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 5, 2024

Ahzam Afzal, Co-Founder and CEO, Puzzle Healthcare Post-acute care facilities for years have been preparing for the impact that value-based purchasing (VBP) programs would have. In 2024, the stakes have gotten much higher for post-acute care facilities. Implement on-site physiatry services.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2024

What You Should Know: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center a nd CVS Accountable Care, part of CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS), today announced the creation of an accountable care organization (ACO) to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries by Ohio State providers in central Ohio.

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

While the rules were in place for her own safety, my stepmother’s condition prevented her from understanding this. My stepmother is just one example of a vulnerable patient who desperately needed her care providers to share data with each other in real time to improve her overall experience and the quality of care she received.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

The Commonwealth Fund’s- methodology covered, Access and affordability Prevention and treatment Avoidable use and cost Healthy lives Reproductive care and women’s health Income disparity, and Racial and ethnic equity. This day marks the one-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v.

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