Health Care Quality Digest

Telemedicine in Rural Areas: Increasing Access to Care

Health Recovery

MAY 9, 2023

In rural areas, the need for remote care and treatment is even more pressing due to limited resources and access to medical facilities. Telehealth, specifically telemedicine , offers an effective solution for meeting this demand by providing technology-enabled care to patients who are unable to access traditional healthcare services.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Remote Care Healthcare Providers Healthcare

Why One Home-Based Care Veteran Sees Home Modification As A Major Growth Area

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

TruBlue Total House Care recently welcomed Carrie Coumbs as the company’s new senior strategic advisor. TruBlue specializes in house care, home maintenance and safety modifications. TruBlue President Sean Fitzgerald first got to know Coumbs during her tenure at a large personal care organization.

Medicare

MDS 3.0 Care Area Trigger (CAT) Specifications Posted for Implementation October 1, 2023

Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

Vendors will use the information in this.zip file to develop the code for the MDS items and responses that will trigger the Care Area Assessments – the CATs. You may find these specs interesting as they show how we’ll transition from Section G to Section GG for the Care Areas.

Healthcare

Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

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. [ii]

Primary Care

Primary Care Medicaid Accountability Quality Improvement

How Sault Area Hospital uses technology to improve care by engaging patients before, during, and after their stay

Meditech

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many of the healthcare issues that surfaced during the pandemic have also been left behind in its wake. Everything from clinician burnout and cognitive burden, to a shortage of healthcare workers and hospital backlogs.

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare

Reshaping Imaging: 4 Areas Enhancing Provider Workflows & Patient Care

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In particular, I believe that four categories have tremendous potential to enhance both provider workflows and patient care: augmented reality, enterprise imaging, artificial intelligence, and mobile apps. In some specialties, such as wound care, images are often printed and scanned into the electronic health record (EHR).

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Doctors

CMS launches new pilot program to test out value-based primary care in 8 states

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 8, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to advance value-based primary care, especially in rural areas and among underserved populations, with a new pilot project. |

Primary Care

Primary Care Medicaid Medicare

80% of nonprofit hospitals' community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds

Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 25, 2024

Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would (..)

Hospitals

Hospitals Accountability

'Dozens and dozens' of data analytics projects drive $100M+ in savings, revenue gains for UnityPoint Health

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The nonprofit health system partnered with Health Catalyst on eight years of performance improvement initiatives targeting length of stay, care management, ED utilization and other costly focus areas.

Performance improvement

Cityblock extends reach to New York Medicaid members with Fidelis Care partnership

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Cityblock is expanding its services to Medicaid patients in the New York City area through a partnership with Centene-owned Fidelis Care. Cityblock will collaborate with the health plan to provide primary care, mental health and social services to thousands of members in the New York City area and Long Island.

Medicaid

Medicaid Primary Care

FTC blocks Tenet Healthcare, John Muir Health's California hospital deal

Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

. | A federal and state investigation concluded that the deal for San Ramon Regional Medical Center would give John Muir Health over 50% of the local inpatient general acute care market, likely leading to higher prices and lower quality in the area.

Hospitals

Hospitals Healthcare

How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

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. An estimated 122 million Americans , or 37% of the population, lived in 5,833 mental health professional shortage areas as of March 31, 2021.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Healthcare Providers Prevention Primary Care

FTC opposes Novant Health's $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 25, 2024

Regulators are pumping the brakes on Novant Health’s deal to buy two North Carolina hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS), citing concerns of higher healthcare costs and little incentive fo | The transaction for Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Davis Regional Medical Center and other assets would give Novant Health 65% control of the inpatient (..)

Hospitals

Hospitals Regulations Healthcare

VA, VHA, Verizon partner to increase rural veterans' telehealth access

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs is offering new access to telehealth and virtual care options. WHY IT MATTERS For veterans living in areas with very limited internet availability, the VA's telehealth and telewellness services are typically out of reach. Neil Evans, chief officer for the VHA's Office of Connected Care.

Healthcare Innovation

Healthcare Innovation Prevention Healthcare Hospitals

When will the ER catch up with value-based care?

Health Care Dive

APRIL 20, 2023

Amid transformation, innovation and buzzwords in value-based care, one crucial area absent is the emergency department, argues Troy Williams, vice president of healthcare systems partnership for First Choice Health.

Healthcare

Improving rural access to radiology services

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A mix of business savvy and cultural competency can overcome workforce shortages, declining populations and hospital closures in rural areas to improve access to radiology services, according to speakers at the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.

Private Practices

Private Practices Telemedicine Hospitals Accountability

Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She is a member of the clinical leadership at Done, a platform that connects patients with psychiatric board-certified medical professionals for services including online video consultations , diagnosis, care team support and prescription delivery. This is particularly true in rural or economically distressed areas.

Regulations

Regulations Telemedicine Remote Care Prevention

How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2023

One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options. They typically need to pay closer attention to their health and benefit from monitoring, support and easy access to care.

Nursing

Nursing Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors

HHS ‘roadmap’ aims to tackle nation’s mental health crisis

Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.

Integration

Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. The range of changes tech could in theory bring to healthcare is extensive, including the following: Faster access to and improved coordination of care by having a more direct channel with clinicians through an online portal.

Healthcare

Healthcare Telemedicine Health Data Regulations

Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

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.

Nursing

Nursing Telemedicine Hospitals Healthcare

South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

According to a media release, this new service is for patients at risk of hospitalisation, including those with heart and respiratory disease and infections; aged care residents; and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities. About seven million Australians, or around 28% of the total population, live in rural and remote areas.

Urgent Care

Urgent Care Nursing Hospitals Integration

Froedtert CTO talks AI scaling strategy, from 'small improvements' to 'hardest' last mile

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today, AI has some great potential in a few areas. We have to provide a summary, for instance, about specific questions for the patient; about, for instance, the lab results or their preventive care visit when it's due. This is still experimental, but it's placing AI much closer to the realm of clinical care practice.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Integration Prevention Healthcare

Bicycle Health, Override Health team up on chronic pain, OUD care referrals

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Bicycle Health, a virtual provider of opioid use disorder (OUD) care, is teaming up with Override Health, a virtual chronic pain management clinic, for a bidirectional patient referral relationship | Bicycle will refer patients to Override for chronic pain care, while Override will refer patients in need of OUD treatment to Bicycle.

Parkview Health brings diabetic retinopathy tests closer to the patients

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. In the case of a positive result, an appropriate referral could immediately be placed for the patient to see a trained ophthalmologist for follow-up care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Healthcare

How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients. We interviewed Kelly Bliss, president of U.S.

Primary Care

Primary Care Prevention Urgent Care Patient Experience

Johns Hopkins has big plans for AI in Epic chart summarization

Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

Today, Hasselfeld, who also is a primary care physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, turns his focus to Johns Hopkins itself, where he and a number of teams throughout the organization have implemented AI in ambient scribing and patient portal applications. It's built around visits.

Nursing

Nursing Hospitals Clinical Practice Primary Care

Stanford Health CEO David Entwistle joins Redesign Health's board. Here's why he's bullish on digital health

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 17, 2023

Stanford Health Care CEO David Entwistle joined the board of directors at New York City-based Redesign Health. Here are the areas of healthcare he thinks are ripe for innovation. David Entwistle has a storied career as a healthcare executive leading new innovations and steering strategic growth at academic medical centers.

Healthcare

Changi General Hospital's 'robot trio' complements nursing care

Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2023

Changi General Hospital has deployed a trio of autonomous mobile robots in and around the emergency department to complement nursing care. Two of these robots have been deployed in two separate areas in the ED and have saved around four minutes per round trip of wayfinding or nearly 1.5 hours each day.

Nursing

Nursing Hospitals Patient Experience

Ongoing cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings forces facilities offline, disrupts services

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 7, 2023

Prospect Medical Holdings was hit with a cyberattack last week that brought computer systems offline and continues to disrupt care in certain areas. | An outage disclosed Thursday is affecting facilities across the holding company's 16-hospital footprint.

Hospitals

Humana's CenterWell charts course for latest expansion

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2024

Humana's primary care business, CenterWell, has unveiled its latest expansion plans. | The company will open centers in three new metro areas and will add further locations across eight municipalities, Humana announced on Tuesday.

Primary Care

First 24/7 virtual emergency clinic in Australia's outback launched

Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

First responders also have access to on-site AED and the RFDS medical chest which they can use to provide immediate physician-guided medication and care. Enterprise Taxonomy: Rural and underserved communities Telehealth Coordinated care Digital Health Patient Access Quality Care Technology

Doctors

Doctors Nursing

RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

Digital Care

Digital Care Patient Experience Telemedicine Nursing

St John of God Midland digitises patient flow with Telstra Health

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The 367-bed public and private hospital delivers medical and surgical care in Perth’s east metropolitan and the Wheatbelt areas. "Efficient and effective management of patient flow is critical to operational improvement, patient safety, and quality and care outcomes," Dyer stressed.

Patient Safety

Patient Safety Hospitals Integration Patient Experience

CVS, Rush partner on new ACO for Chicago Medicare patients

Health Care Dive

JANUARY 24, 2023

Rush University will be the only Chicago-area academic medical center participating in CVS’ first accountable care organization in ACO REACH.

Medicare

Medicare Accountable Care Accountability

Talkspace, Bicycle Health team up to cross-refer patients, expand access to virtual care

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Talkspace, an online therapy company, has teamed up with Bicycle Health, a virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment provider, to expand access to care for their patient populations through refer | For Talkspace patients, the partnership will increase access to opioid use disorder specialty care, including medications.

CVS unveils new health-focused retail strategy, explicit move into primary care

Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Along with outlining three new store formats — including sites for primary care delivery, a new area for the retail drugstore behemoth — CVS plans to close 900 stores over the next three years as consumer buying patterns change.

Primary Care

Epic integrates Qualtrics patients' experience data

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To better support personalized care, Qualtrics patient experience data will be integrated with Epic to flag potential problems or concerns for patients.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Integration Healthcare Providers Healthcare

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

Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

They're disruptive, they add unnecessary cost to the care delivery process and they can have real effects on care management and patient outcomes. 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.

Hospitals

Hospitals Primary Care Medical Services Nursing

JPM24: Cityblock inks partnership with Centene plan in Ohio to serve Medicaid patients

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2024

Cityblock will collaborate with the health plan to provide integrated community-based care to approximately 10,000 Medicaid recipients in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton area Cityblock Health is expanding its services to Medicaid patients in Ohio through a partnership with Centene subsidiary Buckeye Health Plan.

Medicaid

Medicaid Integration

Amazon teases 5 more cities to get virtual Amazon Care offering this year

Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Amazon Care is currently live in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area, and will be rolled out in Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles this year, the unit's director told the HLTH conference Tuesday.

Innovaccer acquires Cured

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Innovaccer was looking to enhance its focus on improving patient experiences and move from encounter-based care to experience-driven care, said Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO, in a statement. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Patient Experience

Patient Experience Healthcare

How Royal Adelaide Hospital is reducing their 'hidden waitlist'

Healthcare It News

APRIL 26, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The hospital worked on a joint project with Personify Care and Healthcare Logic to use digital patient pathways to communicate patient appointments, replacing traditional phone calls and letters. It was deployed in over 20 specialty areas and at RAH, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and SA Dental. million ($3.7

Hospitals

Hospitals Patient Experience Healthcare

The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

Our councils worked to understand the themes for what would make the most healing environment, with the best care possible for the kids we treat. Blank Hospital Through this process, we identified space requirements needed to be reworked in some areas, plug locations might be wrong, or we needed technology to help address an issue.

Hospitals

Hospitals Integration Nursing Healthcare

Telemedicine in Rural Areas: Increasing Access to Care

Why One Home-Based Care Veteran Sees Home Modification As A Major Growth Area

Trending Sources

MDS 3.0 Care Area Trigger (CAT) Specifications Posted for Implementation October 1, 2023

Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

How Sault Area Hospital uses technology to improve care by engaging patients before, during, and after their stay

Reshaping Imaging: 4 Areas Enhancing Provider Workflows & Patient Care

CMS launches new pilot program to test out value-based primary care in 8 states

80% of nonprofit hospitals' community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds

'Dozens and dozens' of data analytics projects drive $100M+ in savings, revenue gains for UnityPoint Health

Cityblock extends reach to New York Medicaid members with Fidelis Care partnership

FTC blocks Tenet Healthcare, John Muir Health's California hospital deal

How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

FTC opposes Novant Health's $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems

VA, VHA, Verizon partner to increase rural veterans' telehealth access

When will the ER catch up with value-based care?

Improving rural access to radiology services

Telepsychiatry will continue to grow – and become the house call of yesteryear

How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

HHS ‘roadmap’ aims to tackle nation’s mental health crisis

Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Froedtert CTO talks AI scaling strategy, from 'small improvements' to 'hardest' last mile

Bicycle Health, Override Health team up on chronic pain, OUD care referrals

Parkview Health brings diabetic retinopathy tests closer to the patients

How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Johns Hopkins has big plans for AI in Epic chart summarization

Stanford Health CEO David Entwistle joins Redesign Health's board. Here's why he's bullish on digital health

Changi General Hospital's 'robot trio' complements nursing care

Ongoing cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings forces facilities offline, disrupts services

Humana's CenterWell charts course for latest expansion

First 24/7 virtual emergency clinic in Australia's outback launched

RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

St John of God Midland digitises patient flow with Telstra Health

CVS, Rush partner on new ACO for Chicago Medicare patients

Talkspace, Bicycle Health team up to cross-refer patients, expand access to virtual care

CVS unveils new health-focused retail strategy, explicit move into primary care

Epic integrates Qualtrics patients' experience data

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

JPM24: Cityblock inks partnership with Centene plan in Ohio to serve Medicaid patients

Amazon teases 5 more cities to get virtual Amazon Care offering this year

Innovaccer acquires Cured

How Royal Adelaide Hospital is reducing their 'hidden waitlist'

The IT strategy behind a groundbreaking new $2B pediatric hospital

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