Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Virtual care can help fill the gaps in behavioral healthcare, including the critical supply-and-demand issue – too many patients, not enough clinicians – that has been hampering care for quite some time. "Do I trust that I will receive the same quality of care, that it is proxy to receiving in person care?"

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Orbita, a vendor of secure voice and chatbot virtual-assistant solutions for healthcare, has launched an upgrade to its conversational AI platform for healthcare, along with deployments with four healthcare organizations using Orbita to power automated patient engagement and support. IT-enabled home diagnostic testing.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. More than 14 million urban homes and nearly 4 million rural homes have no broadband. when students have video-based homework and parents work from home late.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2021

ECH Dandelion, a care hotel operated by South Australia-based home care provider Enabling Confidence at Home, has been equipped with a technology platform for aged care communication and delivery from health IT provider Rauland Australia. ECH launched the care hotel earlier this month. WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Marcus Schabacker spoke about patient safety, cyberattacks in healthcare and risks from the rise of at-home care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. " Dr. Sumir Sahgal, Essen Health Care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT asked healthcare stakeholders: What should healthcare look like in 2030 , and what should interoperability have enabled by then? " The resulting theme statements ran the gamut from shifts in individual and care delivery experiences to changes at health systems.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It added to its streak in a major way on Wednesday, announcing an agreement to purchase Brookdale Health Care Services agencies in 22 states from the recently formed venture between Brookdale Senior Living Inc. NYSE: BKD) and HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA).

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Sydney Local Health District will continue using a remote patient monitoring platform by ASX-listed healthcare IT company Alcidion after extending their contract. In September, healthcare IT firms Royal Philips and Teladoc Health announced their partnership to offer virtual care solutions in Australia and New Zealand.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It will also assist home health providers in getting to their destinations efficiently. "Location data changes the way we can orchestrate and analyze care," said Epic engineering lead Drew McCombs in an email to Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. Then we thought we could adapt it for heatwaves given the conditions and the restrictions that are still in place.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints. “Self-care is a pandemic priority,” NCS intuited from their data. The pandemic pantry also finds most U.S. consumers).

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In doing so, its work with telemedicine technology and services vendor Amwell helped the healthcare provider organization reimagine the delivery of oncology services. " Even when patients came in person, City of Hope used telehealth to include family members and other members of a patient's care team seamlessly in the visits.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

New data constantly reaffirms the idea that seniors want to be cared for in their homes as they age. While that is undoubtedly a tailwind for home-based care, an even more encouraging trend would be professionals wanting to enter into the space. Across the board, we’ve seen the demand for home health care increase.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. " Dr. Matthew Koenig, Queen's Health Systems.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This year saw home care providers further build on the spotlight the public health emergency placed on the industry. Leaders’ ability to not only recruit but retain caregivers will play a big role in home care’s growth in 2022 and beyond. HHCN published the 2022 Home Health Executive Forecast on Dec. 13. * * *.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Private equity firm Wellspring Capital Management has reached a deal to acquire Caring Brands International, the parent company of Sunrise, Florida-based Interim HealthCare. There have been four major home care franchisers acquired in 2021, with PE buyers driving three of those transactions. Caring Brands has about $1.3

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some healthcare provider organizations are using conversational AI to help caregivers and patients. The technology is being used in healthcare for such things as patient chatbots, medical triaging and patient support, patient data management and access, and access to medical services.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It partners with stakeholders such as patients, families and members of the healthcare community. Some providers flagged the value in being able to see into someone’s home to better understand details about their families and social contexts. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. " they wrote.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

If home-based care is not a very real part of both Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) future health care plans, each has done a bad job of hiding it lately. health care. health care. “We We also want to address social isolation and … how technology is playing a role there.”. per member.

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Healthcare Leadership

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

One of the things I get to do is mentor and coach healthcare entrepreneurs. Lately, I have seen a lot of companies building technology to help people stay safe and recover at home. It’s definitely full-steam ahead for the care-at-home movement. Care at Home is Better. I really enjoy it.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Groups Recover Together is a national healthcare company for individuals with opioid use disorder. The success of Groups Recover Together's care model relies heavily on building a supportive community for its members. It's based in Burlington, Massachusetts. THE PROBLEM. Addiction is a disease of isolation. " PROPOSAL.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But it didn’t stop massive dealmaking, which made M&A just as big of a story in home-based care as the virus. Thus, those two topics took up a lot of the Home Health Care News’ Top 10 stories of the year. An Unexpected Savior: How PDGM Prep Helped Home Health Agencies Ease COVID-19’s Impact (Feb.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Home health stakeholders have been lobbying for the Choose Home Care Act of 2021 ever since it was introduced in the U.S. Beginning last week, the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) and its provider members have been holding virtual meetings with key Senate and House lawmakers, along with their staffers.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It has never been more challenging to be a home health operator. That’s the general census of home health executives as 2021 comes to a close. In addition to ongoing workforce hurdles, home health executives predict the shift toward value-based care to make its mark on the industry. Nasdaq: AMED). * * *.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that all of the state’s health care workers are now required to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus by Sept. The announcement specifically listed nursing home, “adult care,” long-term care facility and hospital workers as those who must receive vaccinations by that date.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A greater supply of home health and home care businesses is fueling an increase in dealmaking activity, according to the latest M&A update from advisory firm Mertz Taggart. There were at least 16 home health-related deals in Q3 2021, the same as in the second quarter of this year. This is a supply-driven market.”.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

. “This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated. When announced, the news was a signal that health care and the larger tech-enabled ecosystem that supports health and well-being is embedded in peoples’ everyday lives.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Choose Home Care Act of 2021 was introduced in the U.S. If enacted, the landmark Choose Home legislation would create an add-on payment to the traditional Medicare Home Health Benefit, allowing providers to mix in telehealth, transportation, personal care and other services. We commend Reps. We applaud Reps.

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