Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. Check out the recent Harlow on Healthcare episode with Dave Chase.) As Rob says, “Most of my patients do not want more care — they understand that and with a little education they can understand that much better.”

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2024

What You Should Know: Advocare LLC, a 750-provider multi-specialty group practice based in New Jersey with the largest number of pediatric providers in the state, today announced a partnership with Fort Health, a virtual pediatric behavioral healthcare company built with the Child Mind Institute, to expand services delivered through primary care.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Connecting Members With Primary Care Doctors That Provide Longitudinal Care. HealthTap is a nationwide virtual primary care provider, delivering quality primary care affordably to all Americans, whether or not they have good insurance.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. The Case for Permanent Hybrid Healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Nearly half of all annual healthcare spending in the U.S. comes from just five percent of the population. comes from just five percent of the population.

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NCQA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

NCQA seeks candidates who embody Phyllis’ passion for health care quality research and policy. Primary care. Preventive care. Maternal health. Behavioral health. Health care disparities. Value-based care and payment. Telehealth and health information technology.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JULY 26, 2021

The lessons from COVID-19 outline a path forward toward sustainable, high-quality healthcare. There is no argument that this pandemic is a devastating crisis in terms of its impact on society and its impact on our healthcare system. Relationships between primary care and specialists are now digital.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Population health management has become an important competency for hospitals and health systems. Advanced healthcare platforms, such as digital front doors, are emerging as an answer to some of these challenges. What are some of the challenges facing successful population health management programs today?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In September 2020, PwC surveyed consumers with employer-sponsored health insurance about their preferred locations to receive a COVID-19 vaccine within one year of its approval. Sites included: “My” doctor’s office, favored by more people who were White or Asian, and those 45 years or older. population health burden.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2023

During their review of the scan, the radiologist notes that there is a lung nodule present and recommends follow-up by the patient’s primary care physician (PCP). However, at that moment, this is a secondary and non-urgent issue for this patient, so therefore the care team may not alert the appropriate care team for nodule management.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. healthcare system,” asserts the thesis of Retailers in healthcare: A catalyst for provider evolution. “Why are big retailers jumping into healthcare? .

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Before HLTH 2022 kicks off next week in Las Vegas, we asked 17 digital health executives for their predictions and major themes to expect at HLTH. hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. Robin Shah, Thyme Care CEO and Co-Founder.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What’s more, is that an individual’s approach to their health can – and most likely will – evolve over the course of their lifetime. A decade ago, people weren’t dabbling in CBD to ease their stress, having Zoom calls with their doctors or riding a cycle with thousands of other people from the comfort of their living room.

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CiscoHealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

there will be a predicted shortage of 122,000 doctors by 2032. And in Europe, they could face a shortage of 230,000 doctors by next year. In Germany, this is becoming more critical because doctors are migrating to other countries, such as Switzerland, where they are offered higher salaries and more benefits. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. These three topics all occurred in the past couple of weeks.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Googling the words “disruption” and “healthcare” today yielded 33.8 “Disruption” as a noun and an elephant in our room has been with us in healthcare since the September/October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review. This emerged out of Christensen’s 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes. Conclusion.

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Accountable Care Doctors

MARCH 19, 2021

His expertise in medicine, population health, and clinical informatics will be valuable in our movement towards accountability in health care. Atrius Health is a progressive system that is well on its way in this journey.

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Health Dialog

AUGUST 6, 2012

There once was a time when if you got sick, you’d call the family doctor. The doctor would take care of you quickly and coordinate any additional care that you needed. In those days, your family doctor was a “home base” for all your medical needs. . Healthcare Organized Around Your Needs .

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Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learnings from COVID-19 must drive major changes in health care delivery, according to interviews conducted with physician leaders of the nation’s leading multi-specialty medical groups and health systems that participate in the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). Invest in Primary Care and Prevention.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. This places them on a very short list of connected health developers who have patiently developed clinical-grade health techs designed for the consumer market that have undergone regulatory scrutiny.

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Health Dialog

APRIL 19, 2016

As the healthcare industry shifts toward patient-centered care and a fee-for-value model, shared decision making (SDM) is key in facilitating that shift. Decision aids are patient health tools that explain treatment and care choices and help patients work with their doctors to make decisions about their healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2022

As such, there are few fields digital twins can be more helpful in than healthcare. Take a visit to your primary care physician, for example. Digital clones or digital twins can greatly benefit the healthcare system, and we’re already starting to see them in use. Digital Twins in Production.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So you have a ton of patients in a healthcare system getting tests that may not be helpful in their diagnosis for creating a treatment plan. Costs to the healthcare system, accuracy of the diagnosis, like you mentioned with your family member, and ultimately the outcomes. heart disease is the number one killer of all Americans.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

Ashul Govil, a practicing cardiologist and chief medical officer at Story Health, a technology company that aims to expand the reach of specialists in the U.S., Please describe the situation in healthcare today with regard to the number of specialists and the demand for specialty care. Roughly 16% of the U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

.” We’re at a turning point in the post-Facebook/Cambridge Analytica and Equifax breach environment, where patients and consumers still believe their health care providers and doctors are their most-trusted data steward. Deven and Vince will teach me more on this evolving challenge that touches all of us.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 12, 2022

The phrase “whole person health” kept echoing through the virtual hallways during the second day of the 40 th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Similarly, if you have a medical concern and decide to go see a doctor, you have to decide if you should go to a cardiologist, pulmonologist, internist or family practice physician.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously, leading to treatment delays and deferred care. Sometimes chaos still occurs due to a major population health crisis.

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