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An inside look at Walgreens’ primary care and pharmacy model

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Despite a recent leadership shakeup and sub-par third quarter financial results, Walgreens’ executives maintain that its transformation from a retail store to a full-blown healthcare company is the | Walgreens execs gave reporters a peek behind the curtain at its Chicago primary care office and micro-fulfillment center.

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CIO shows what a service center can do for patient access and experience

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That session, The Access Game Changer: Service Center and Technology’s Role , will be presented by Jim Feen, Southcoast Health's chief information officer, next month in Orlando. We asked Jim Feen a few questions about how the service center has been working for Southcoast and what HIMSS24 attendees can learn from his session.

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

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WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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How one triage center delivers more culturally sensitive mental health and addiction care

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In the face of high addiction rates, mounting mental health crises, and daily reports of overdoses and suicides in the United States, a community triage center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has come up with a novel care approach that can be replicated around the world.

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Massachusetts 1115 waiver success can translate to New York: experts

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The blueprint set forth by Massachusetts accountable care organizations to improve population health metrics and reduce costs can be applied to New York, after Centers for Medicare & Medic | New York's section 1115 waiver allocates $500 million toward social care networks to connect community health workers with local organizations.

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In Saudi Arabia, machine learning model helps reduce outpatient no-shows

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MNGHA comprises more than 30 hospitals, specialty hospitals and primary care centers across Saudi Arabia, with all facilities linked to a unified EHR system called BESTCare. "Advanced analytics, prediction and machine learning." That gives the "advantage of having a huge amount of data," Al Ghamdi explained.

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Indonesia's digital health maturity in 2023 revealed and more briefs

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The Indonesian Ministry of Health, through the Center for Data and Information Technology, has recently announced the results of the 2023 digital maturity assessment for provincial and district/city health services, hospitals, and health service facilities. out of 5.00. million community health workers called Posyandu cadres.