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Netflix for Healthcare: Direct Primary Care & Shared Decision-Making

HIT Consultant

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs.

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ChatGPT's potential impact on preventative care and emergency visits

Healthcare It News

Concurrently, the healthcare workforce is facing significant attrition; approximately 20% of doctors are planning to leave the profession and more than 170,000 healthcare workers departed their roles in 2021, according to JAMA. How can hospitals and health systems use LLMs to ease clinician workload?

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Membership Medicine: The Future of Primary Care?

HIT Consultant

VP, Strategic Solutions at Definitive Healthcare Primary care is at a tipping point. However, in the past, primary care delivery has been dictated by changes in payor-led reimbursement models. Amazon is also making moves to dominate physician markets, buying out primary care practice One Medical.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

Healthcare It News

With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year. In addition, all data from these visits was lost to Memorial and its provider team as it didn't flow back to Memorial.

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Diabetes Management in 2023 and Beyond: A Tech-Enabled Partnership Between Patient and Doctor

HIT Consultant

Thankfully, more patients are embracing technology-based programs that provide education and engagement to help improve diabetes outcomes, such as better understanding the importance of regular blood glucose monitoring and how to interpret key metrics like hemoglobin A1c.

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Cedars-Sinai Expands Virtual Healthcare for Children & Spanish Speakers

HIT Consultant

Spanish-speaking patients aged 3 and above can now opt for a Spanish-language app. Spanish-speaking healthcare providers are available for scheduled visits on weekdays from 7 a.m. Translators are also available 24/7 for on-demand care if a Spanish-speaking provider isn’t accessible. and weekends from 8 a.m.

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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

Kaufman Hall analyzed 100 health care organizations in this year’s consumerism survey to assess their readiness to embrace consumer-centric strategies, understand how the industry prioritizes these approaches, evaluate their progress toward responding to them, and identifying best practices.