Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The response: A health plan is a comprehensive package of healthcare services and coverage that helps individuals or groups manage and finance their healthcare needs. Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare.

Primary Care 85

Primary Care Medicare Prevention Medicaid 85

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

During the peak of the pandemic, along with other New York City health systems, NYC Health + Hospitals launched a 911 call diversion intervention with the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. The 911 call volumes surged from an average of just over 4,000 calls per day to more than 7,000 calls per day.

Urgent Care 351

Urgent Care Hospitals Telemedicine Integration 351

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

“With our DispatchHealth collaboration, Blue Shield can provide a convenient way for members to access quality care directly in their homes,” Peter Long, executive vice president of strategy and health solutions at Blue Shield of California, said in a press statement. Innovation, value and patient experience are three areas of focus for us.

Urgent Care 88

Urgent Care Primary Care Patient Experience Medical Services 88

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

Primary Care 171

Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals 171

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What industry compels its “consumers” to wait longer and travel further for services more than any other in a person’s daily life? That would be health care, a report from Altarum notes. The annual opportunity cost for travel and wait time in health care is $89 billion, Altarum estimated.

Medical Services 112

Medical Services Primary Care Prevention Patient Experience 112

Health Populi

JULY 30, 2020

health care system, from public health gaps to the racial gaps of health disparities between people of color dying at a much greater rate than white people in America. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. Today’s news that the U.S. In the longer term, assuring all U.S.

Healthcare 73

Healthcare Primary Care Patient Experience Doctors 73

Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the third graphic illustrates, consumers can opt into one of four health care “bundles,” including components such as generic medications, primary care, vision and dental care, hearing and alternative medicine services.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Urgent Care Doctors Medical Services 59

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Since then, the firm expanded internationally and covers every industry segment — including healthcare, per se, but also sectors immediately adjacent to medical services such as life sciences, senior housing technology, retail, and hospitality.

Urgent Care 118

Urgent Care Life Sciences Prevention Hospitals 118

Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care. would use virtual care to receive medical services in the future, J.D. That’s because 9 in 10 users of telehealth in the U.S.

Healthcare 81

Healthcare Doctors Quality of Care Medical Services 81

Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic certainly accelerated the fast-adoption of telehealth for all kinds of patient questions and needs starting in the late second quarter of 2020. Mental health spiked up for virtual visits and to this day, is among the medical services in highest demand for virtual platforms.

Medical Services 119

Medical Services Patient Experience Primary Care Prevention 119

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

These include remote monitoring tools for virtual check-ins addressing chronic conditions, more home-based care, emails and texts that nudge patients over time, digital pricing tools to support shopping for medical services, and better-designed portals that serve up more welcoming digital front doors.

Urgent Care 116

Urgent Care Doctors Healthcare Population Health 116

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

These players are honing in on at-home medical services and primary care, extending their reach deeper into the care continuum and blurring the lines between who owns what part of the space. And, patients and families are seemingly more frustrated themselves – often directed at people doing their best.

Patient Experience 98

Patient Experience Nursing Primary Care Prevention 98

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

That purchaser takes the form of both the employer-sponsor of health care insurance for workers, and the patient-as-payer herself. Most patients have experienced frustrations – in the designer’s parlance, “friction” – when seeking routine care as well as during a routine medical appointment.

Health Technology 62

Health Technology Primary Care Patient Experience Healthcare 62

Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You know, I have always long believed that, in healthcare, the social determinants of health, the community benefit process and, ultimately, all that we do to educate, vaccinate, take care of our community, through all initiatives related to immunizations, primary care, etc., For me, it went, though, beyond that.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nursing Hospitals Doctors 52

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ACSI noted in the report that the health plans are transforming as health/care companies, pointing to Humana’s investment in pharmacy and primary care underpinned by technologies and a relationship with Microsoft for digital transformation.

Hospitals 68

Hospitals Primary Care Doctors Medical Services 68