Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. 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.

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NASHP

AUGUST 23, 2021

Primary care case management (PCCM) programs are one of the oldest types of Medicaid managed care, but over time most states have shifted to use managed care organizations (MCOs) to deliver services to Medicaid participants. ii] Rural areas are highly likely to suffer from shortages of primary care and other providers.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce December 7, 2022 / by Elaine Chhean , Anita Cardwell , Lauren Block (Aurrera Health Group), and Sarah Tocher (Aurrera Health Group). High-quality primary care is foundational to a healthy society and well-functioning health care systems.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – TytoCare has partnered with Carilion Clinic , a not-for-profit health care organization serving Virginia’s Blue Ridge and Southwest Virginia regions. Shortage of Primary Care Physicians in Rural Communities. Providing Carilion’s Patients with Comprehensive Remote Care Capabilities.

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Accountable Care Doctors

MARCH 19, 2021

The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), a coalition of visionary medical groups and health systems supporting accountable value-based care, has added Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, to its board of directors. Dr. Kimura is a practicing primary care internist with a specialization in clinical informatics.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rising prices for health care services are a major determinant of increased health care spending and health insurance premiums. Hospital prices (for inpatient and outpatient care) are the largest driver of rising health care spending in the commercial market in the U.S.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new proposed model that will undoubtedly affect home health providers, and also allow them the opportunity to get more involved in value-based care initiatives. TEAM would be yet another model furthering that goal, if enacted.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the firm's latest report , based on a survey of 155 physician group leaders and hospital executives, is a check on the industry’s sentiments around this now-mainstream technology. What did your survey find about which services were used via telemedicine and what the virtual care picture looks like?

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Home Health Care

MAY 19, 2023

Now, Humana is focused on accelerating value-based care and integrating all of its services that fall under the larger CenterWell brand, which includes home-based care, primary care and pharmacy services. We also focus on clinical innovation, and the idea is to reduce the total cost of care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

However, patient data currently sits in multiple care settings. To effectively analyze gaps in care and better serve patients, providers need all patient information in one place. Healow Insights brings together data from payers, hospitals, health centers, urgent care centers and other EHRs into a single source.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

As part of this VBC mode l, hospitals and health systems must store, track, and analyze a large amount of quality-related data for compliance and reimbursement purposes. Rating is based on five areas: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, and timely/effective care. times greater total health care costs.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

John Kao, CEO of Alignment Healthcare, shared today that only 12% percent of their Medicare Advantage membership accounts for approximately 74% percent of their institutional cost (hospital and facility costs), while conversely their “healthy” membership of 74% accounted for only 5% of their institutional costs.

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Home Health Care

JULY 15, 2022

This article is sponsored by Integrated Home Care Services. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS) co-founder Paul Pino to learn the top challenges in the home-based care space, and how the IHCS model addresses those challenge s.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Apple has made steady progress over the years, successfully integrating its Health app with the EHR systems of dozens of providers across the nation. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Google Health shuttered in 2011 , and Health Vault closed its doors in 2019.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With that said, we are committed to working productively with CMS to ensure the integrity of the program is maintained.” She also said the focus is on driving organic growth, specifically in primary care and home health care, but also left the door open for future M&A in those areas. “We year over year, and up 6.3%

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

CMS’s strategic refresh initiative aims to meet five objectives: drive accountable care, advance health equity, support care innovations, improve access and affordability, and establish partnerships to achieve these objectives. Why align specialty care with value-based models?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

and reduce hospitalizations by 12.5% She is a recognized subject matter expert in pay-for-performance programs, hospital and physician alliances, and healthcare reform. These include the following: Can lower medical costs by 5.3% 1 return on investment The bottom line It is unlikely that healthcare premiums will come down anytime soon.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 19, 2023

Tampa General Hospital Teams Up with Navina Tampa General Hospital (TGH) partners with AI-powered platform Navina to bring its transformative AI the health system’s primary care clinicians.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 27, 2022

If both sides use technology that integrates, sites can maintain control of their documents and data and choose their own technology. Integrating technologies will unlock new workflow benefits that a single solution can’t provide. For example, the hospital EMR space has historically been dominated by a few major players.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. We are ready to move beyond ACOs and bundled payments in the journey to value-based care.”. Digital house calls.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

These insights were shared at the keynote discussion, “Leveraging Employer-Provider Partnerships to Curb Rising Health Care Costs and Improve Outcomes” at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC), held June 8?–?10. We are ready to move beyond ACOs and bundled payments in the journey to value-based care.”. Digital house calls.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Integration Quality of Care Accountability 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

“Humana’s acquisition of onehome in 2021 and expansion into Virginia this year further advances the company’s commitment to building our Home Solutions business and value-based offerings,” Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, president of Humana’s home-based care segment, said in a press release. We’ve got our own fleet of vehicles.

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Improving Accountability for Behavioral Health Care Access is our latest white paper summarizing savvy measurement of behavioral health networks. Models of care. Since behavioral healthcare often requires an integrated care team, there could be implications for value-based payment models.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Primary care providers and specialists embraced virtual care, thanks to a combination of easy-to-use technologies, temporary regulatory flexibilities, and increased demand from patients. Hospitals without ICUs lack trained critical care clinicians. During the coronavirus crisis, we saw the impact this had on care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

population is over the age of 65, but they account for nearly one-third of healthcare spending, much of which is going into specialty care. These tools can be made more effective by integrating into existing workflows in a way that allows scalability of a provider's time. Roughly 16% of the U.S. These numbers leave the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. hospitals were losing $1.4 hospitals were losing $1.4 In other words, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Nijay Patel, Chief Technology Officer, AmplifyMD The shortage of physicians in America is a growing concern, with serious consequences for our nation’s hospitals. Already, 50% of hospitals are short coverage for three or more specialties, and 90% are short at least one. Design with a focus on the remote physician as a first-class user.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

Medicaid 52

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care. An integrated, systems and requirements-driven digital approach will put the whole patient back at the center of the digital ecosystem. A Way Forward.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. Big investments in precision medicine.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2023

Since the start of his career as a primary care, internal medicine physician, Dr. Richard Feifer has sat at the intersection of geriatrics, population health and value-based payment models. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model has long been a passion of his.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hospital stocks dropped 32.6% Rising costs for nurses and hospital staff along with growing labor shortages have resulted in several of the largest hospital companies, such as HCA Healthcare, lowering earnings estimates, which drove prices downward across the sub-sector in Q2 2022.

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