HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2023

Monte Sandler, COO of Experity Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

Historically, virtual care technology was used for primary and urgent care; more recently, it has been deployed to support narrowly focused, condition-specific point solutions, or point-in-time solutions like second opinion.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company. Including how you deliver primary and multi-specialty care, and how you work with payers and employers. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health® (FSH), a virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine and virtual mental health, today announced the availability of Virtual Primary Care for its clients and members throughout the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. But many provider organizations have yet to embrace a virtual-first approach, eschewing a telemedicine front door for traditional, in-person care first.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

"Seeing someone by video alone can certainly be enough in an isolated situation, but to provide that layer of quality, we sought out a way to deliver better care virtually," he added. PROPOSAL Baptist Health found telemedicine technology vendor TytoCare. "And the vendor plans on adding AI to their tool.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The cost-reducing and affordability aspects of virtual-first care also will influence payer adoption as a benefit covered by health plans and insurance. You predict that with telemedicine there will be a greater focus on care coordination.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

" "If you're not already addressing the patient experience and access for care, be aware many others are going to do it for you." That was another key factor that led Baptist Health to telemedicine vendor Bright.md, he said. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. Patients can do this from their living room, as opposed to driving to urgent care or the emergency department. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. "The devices and increased technology services allowed us to connect patients and providers who otherwise may not have had the opportunity to receive care." " Shannon R. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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. Users can download the HealthLynked app for free and pay a standard rate of $70 per telemedicine visit.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the time, Maimonides was not engaged in any telemedicine or other digital health initiatives. These efforts allowed Maimonides to identify four key virtual care technologies that were areas of focus, aligned with Maimonides strategy: virtual patient visits, virtual consults, e-consults and remote patient monitoring. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“Yes,” we concurred on our session convened by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) EDGE session today. We covered, The theory that telemedicine should increase health equity — where are we and what are the barriers to getting there? Understanding the health inequities borne by “telemedicine.

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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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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Some health systems have contracted with third-party telemedicine vendors that often require patients to go into a separate system that is not well-integrated with the health systems' other technologies. Other health systems have built up their own virtual care provider strength but are unlikely to provide 24/7, comprehensive coverage.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. Nurses have ranked highest in honesty and ethics in past Gallup polls , demonstrating the profession’s consistent image and delivery of services that patients highly value on the front lines of care.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 17, 2023

As a healthcare services organization, it delivers and coordinates whole-person care that integrates primary care, acute care, behavioral health, and long-term services and supports, while addressing the social factors that impact health. Telemedicine has grown to become an important part of delivering on CCA's mission.

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Healthcare Success

JUNE 13, 2022

It includes early detection and accurate diagnosis, individualized care, fast and affordable access to optimal care, remote care and monitoring (e.g., telemedicine), and hyper-relevant digital content. Instead of relying on outdated models of care (e.g., 4 Personalized Healthcare Marketing Strategies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Digital health and digital front doors can be an effective means of providing any patient with access to a medical or mental health care provider, removing barriers by allowing patients to connect via phone, chat, video or even asynchronously. And with care available on demand, no appointment is necessary.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. A big chunk of telemedicine technology and services company Teladoc Health's business is in primary care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

The average primary care doctor visit costs patients $167, takes weeks to schedule, and requires jumping through insurance hoops just to receive basic care. At a median cost as low as $75 per month, patients within the DPC model get unlimited access to primary care, telemedicine, and urgent care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

" In these use cases, care managers can focus on the higher acuity patients requiring intervention and allow stable patients to use the engagement chats as their principal contact modality, he added. MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

"Instead, we were able to leverage our relationship to stand up a 24-hour urgent care offering through our virtual provider within days. "Care delivery options included urgent care, primary care, behavioral health services and chronic care management." MARKETPLACE.

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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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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

.” The H-a-H Framework is illustrated here, with the patient’s home environment is positioned at the center of the circle which identifies various care services including: Ambulatory care, covering primary care, chronic care, specialty care, mental and behavioral health, oncology-at-home, dialysis, infusion On-demand and urgent care, which (..)

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What You Should Know: – Femtech company Alpha Medical, today announced it has raised $24M in Series B funding to expand its market share in women’s virtual primary care. Alpha Medical recognizes that women’s healthcare needs reshaping to include reproductive health, primary and urgent care, and mental health services.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 19, 2023

The benefits of Direct Primary Care include: Access : DPC physicians typically offer same-day or next-day appointments and use technology like telemedicine, e-mail, and text messaging to make themselves more accessible to their patients on demand. Furthermore, healthcare costs continue to rise despite a worsening patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Every new technology that has emerged, from robotic-led procedures to telemedicine, has been more accepted over time. Health systems and facilities overall adopting AI, rather than uptake being dependent on individual providers, is a pathway to making AI use in patient care more mainstream.

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