HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Real world evidence from electronic medical records (EHR) data reveals the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations, emergency department visits and intensive care admissions due to the virus, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2024

. – Strengthening Primary and Preventive Care to Enhance Affordability: Mercy and Centivo’s collaboration emphasizes primary care, aiming to drive savings for St. Louis businesses while promoting preventive health.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43. In the last year, 42% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Virtual Urgent Care: 24/7 Access to Care As part of this expansion, HealthLynked has launched its new Virtual Urgent Care service, available round-the-clock nationwide. “Our integration with Lyric Health and the launch of our Virtual Urgent Care service is a game-changer for our members.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ochsner Health, a nonprofit health system based in New Orleans, recently announced the results of a strategic partnership to deliver acute and transitional care services at home. This initiative is designed to prevent low-acuity admissions from emergency departments and help reduce readmissions after patient discharge.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2022

. – As part of the partnership, Baptist Health will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic solution into its current telehealth offering, enhancing the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients with in-depth, remote physical examinations during virtual visits, including urgent care video visits.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A virtual-first approach also supports care continuity; however, those telehealth providers that treat virtual visits as isolated, one-time events cannot. Proactive care – supported by real-time data collection and consistent data integrity – enables patients to avoid costly treatments by managing conditions early.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. First, Urgent Care Telehealth: Of the patients seen in urgent care, about 15% make return visits.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

"We first started with pre- and post-discharge chats with the goal of preventing readmissions and helping patients better manage their care after leaving the hospital. Our goals for our chronic disease programs are more tightly linked to how we can prevent admissions in the first place."

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 17, 2024

It will feature Riverside County’s first mental health urgent care center and crisis residential program specifically designed for children under 13. This will be a significant step forward in providing timely and comprehensive care for young people.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Why It Matters According to Deloitte , since 2018, consumers’ usage of virtual health has increased across all ages, and almost two-thirds of consumers would utilize virtual care visits for preventive health. Many consumers seek virtual care when they have symptoms, or to fulfill specific care needs.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

"WVU Medicine's approach aimed to meet the needs of low-acuity patients with disease exposure concerns, and reducing and preventing overcrowding in emergency departments, urgent care clinics and general care clinics while also giving the reassurance and advice that patients require. McAllister, WVU Medicine.

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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

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.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Rossella De Falco Strong, well-coordinated and resilient public health care services play a vital role in preventing and responding to public health crises. Further, non-State actors also have a responsibility to respect human rights (5.4.b), b), as well as to “contribute to the fulfilment of human rights’ ”(5.3.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Members can develop a relationship and keep seeing the same Teladoc provider for their ongoing primary care needs if they choose. The physician they select can provide annual exams, preventive care, diagnosis and treatment for health concerns and management of chronic conditions. HCSC Virtual Primary Care Features.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Revolutionizing Healthcare Delivery with CloudClinics™ Rezilient reduces employers’ total cost of care through increasing access and utilization of value-based primary and specialty care. This approach delivers a significant return on investment for employers and improves employee health outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. In fact, the contrary is true.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

DispatchHealth was founded in 2013 and started as a digital health care company that offered on-demand, on-site services at home. The company now provides a range of health care services to patients in their homes — aiming to prevent costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits.

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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 10, 2024

"It creates seamless coordination between virtual and in-person care teams and a comprehensive care model that streamlines operations, reduces redundancies, and drives savings by focusing on preventive care, early intervention and fewer visits to the emergency department. Ovatient has big goals, Chehade stated.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

" The pandemic also further reduced access to routine care leading to an increase in preventable complications due to chronic conditions, including emergency room visits, hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs, she added.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This strongly suggests that, along with other preventive measures that expectant mothers or women who are considering getting pregnant can take to promote a healthy pregnancy, getting vaccinated and boosted against COVID should be high on the list.” and urgent care facilities in eight health systems across 10 U.S.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“We’re working on additional expansions, likely to come in 2024, that will bring us into Washington, and a couple other states out in the Pacific Northwest,” Mike Stuart, chief growth officer at WellBe, told Home Health Care News. This leads to patients delaying much needed care. We’re excited to get started in Oregon.”

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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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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

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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Healthcare Success

JUNE 13, 2022

Preventive care reminders. Expand Hours of Operation and Models of Care. Instead of relying on outdated models of care (e.g., in-office appointments and phone calls), consumers expect faster and more flexible care options (e.g., Annual/upcoming appointment reminders. Lab result notifications. Medication reminders.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 13, 2024

This support can reduce caregiver strain and improve their ability to care for the client.” 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 Lifespark, headquartered in St.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 9, 2024

If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of home care, what would it be? If I could change one thing, it would be the expansion of reimbursement models to more broadly support high-acuity, physician-led care in the home (including Urgent Care/ED Care in the Home, Observation at Home and Hospital at Home).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2023

Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

One healthcare organization recently implemented automated outreach to follow up with patients seen in urgent care. The organization experienced an immediate 23% increase in appointments following urgent care encounters, reducing system leakage and driving revenue.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How can we break down the barriers that prevent us from achieving full interoperability? Ensuring seamless access to lab results across diverse care settings, including mental health and long-term care facilities, can be challenging due to potential silos within these organizations. I know what you’re thinking.

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