Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM.

Primary Care 200

Primary Care Integration Telemedicine Patient Experience 200

Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. What do people expect from AI in healthcare?

Primary Care 298

Primary Care Medical Practitioners Healthcare Providers Urgent Care 298

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

Telemedicine 308

Telemedicine Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Urgent Care 308

Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

Flannery also describes an actual example of specialty care his company has delivered via an employer, and the outcomes. What is the state of specialty care in the United States today? Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. How can virtual specialty care help overcome these challenges?

Telemedicine 302

Telemedicine Primary Care Urgent Care Healthcare 302

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

Primary Care 208

Primary Care Telemedicine Integration Medical Services 208

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

Telemedicine 175

Telemedicine Primary Care Integration Nursing 175

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

Telemedicine 284

Telemedicine Primary Care Hospitals Integration 284

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S. 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. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare.

Telemedicine 253

Telemedicine Primary Care Medicaid Urgent Care 253

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. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

Primary Care 237

Primary Care Healthcare Telemedicine Urgent Care 237

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.

Telemedicine 346

Telemedicine Doctors Primary Care Healthcare 346

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. How FSH Virtual Primary Care Features. ”

Urgent Care 98

Urgent Care Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors 98

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In late September, the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan discussion draft bill that aims to address the nation’s crippling behavioral healthcare crisis by providing funding for 4,000 Medicare Graduate Medical Education psychiatry residencies over the next decade. Through telemedicine.

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Primary Care Remote Care Medicare 98

HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Hint Health , a direct primary care (DPC) provider raises $45M led by Banneker Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures , bringing the company’s total funding amount to $60M. healthcare system, which sees close to $1 trillion annually in wasteful spending. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Urgent Care Telemedicine Doctors 97

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.

Primary Care 98

Primary Care Telemedicine Urgent Care Prevention 98

Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

As healthcare organizations underwent a significant shift towards virtual care delivery during the pandemic, the need for seamless integration into the digital health ecosystem came to the fore. Discussions also encompass innovative approaches to virtual care integration, regulatory compliance, and data security measures.

Primary Care 263

Primary Care Telemedicine Integration Healthcare 263

Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

With only a couple years under its belt since its launch, Patina Health – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based home-focused primary care medical practice – has secured partnerships with multiple major health plans. Patina’s work with payers combines care coordination and primary care services for seniors.

Primary Care 84

Primary Care Urgent Care Telemedicine Medicare 84

HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? Creating “virtual critical care wards” with telemedicine tools.

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Tertiary Care Primary Care Hospitals 98

Health Populi

MAY 9, 2024

We will continue to monitor all aspects of telehealth, from primary care and prevention to specialty care access, as well as to consumer/retail-driven demand for services like these for the GLP-1s, sexual dysfunction ( note Ro’s latest entry into the GLP-1 category expanding beyond its original lifestyle medicines roots).

Telemedicine 68

Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals Hospitals Medicare 68

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Additionally, these tools support more efficient practice operations, which have become critically important as practices face labor challenges,” Brad Boyd, BDO’s National Co-Leader in the firm’s Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation, observes in the study report. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

Primary Care 81

Primary Care Patient Experience Doctors Health Data 81

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing. The Report synthesizes a database covering |300M American lives and 2.7M

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Home Care Doctors Hospitals 96

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream.

Telemedicine 290

Telemedicine Digital Care Primary Care Safe Practices 290

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Access to providers is a challenge across healthcare. And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. "Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. This is not news.

Primary Care 255

Primary Care Telemedicine Medicare Nursing 255

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With a chronic shortage of mental healthcare providers in rural areas, there is a significant lack of access to this much-needed care for those who reside there. In addition, research shows rural Americans are less likely to receive mental healthcare because of the stigma, Booth added. How did this problem develop?

Telemedicine 266

Telemedicine Healthcare Providers Prevention Primary Care 266

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions.

Healthcare 216

Healthcare Telemedicine Integration Primary Care 216

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. Speaking of genomic testing… how does 23andMe fit into the health-to-healthcare scenario?

Primary Care 68

Primary Care Telemedicine Prevention Doctors 68

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. First we launched primary care.

Telemedicine 324

Telemedicine Primary Care Doctors Patient Safety 324

HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. As the U.S.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Telemedicine Primary Care Healthcare Innovation 98

Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2022

An array of disconnected, niche, point applications, and those not purpose-built for healthcare, are further fragmenting an already disjointed healthcare experience – and potentially marginalizing the role of local health systems in the lives of the communities they serve.

Integration 238

Integration Telemedicine Primary Care Hospitals 238

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2022

– Alpha Medical, whose services are available in 49 states plus DC and treat over 60 conditions with their virtual PCP offering, continues to fulfill its mission to bring convenient, affordable, and accessible medical care, medications, and resources to its patients. Why It Matters.

Telemedicine 52

Telemedicine Primary Care Accountability Doctors 52

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? Virtual care can be a game-changer for people in rural communities and healthcare deserts. That's just the beginning of a deep digital divide in this country.

Primary Care 240

Primary Care Telemedicine Healthcare Healthcare Providers 240

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Urgent Care Telemedicine Healthcare 52

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. In a hyper-localized business like healthcare, this situation put CMH at a disadvantage against its competitors.

Telemedicine 298

Telemedicine Patient Experience Integration Primary Care 298

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

A closer look at this activity points to a key trend that will persist post-pandemic: that telehealth and the broader theme of virtual care is re-shaping how health care is delivered. This graphic comes out of my current thinking about telehealth across the continuum of care.

Telemedicine 144

Telemedicine Primary Care Healthcare Home Care 144

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.

Telemedicine 258

Telemedicine Primary Care Integration Urgent Care 258

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

Primary Care 253

Primary Care Quality of Care Telemedicine Prevention 253

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% – Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. in Q2 2022, with only Acadia Healthcare posting a gain in share price.

Life Sciences 98

Life Sciences Telemedicine Healthcare Biotechnology 98

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin.

Primary Care 98

Primary Care Healthcare Patient Experience Hospitals 98