Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health® (FSH), a virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine and virtual mental health, today announced the availability of Virtual Primary Care for its clients and members throughout the U.S. How FSH Virtual Primary Care Features. ” .

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members. were left without care options for routine and long-term issues. “Patients throughout the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Hint Health , a direct primary care (DPC) provider raises $45M led by Banneker Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures , bringing the company’s total funding amount to $60M. healthcare system, which sees close to $1 trillion annually in wasteful spending. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

doctors, driven by turnover and understaffing, compassion fatigue, and challenges using digital tools — think EHRs. Implementing systems that improve effectiveness and efficiency are the top draw here among clinicians, followed by meeting with the doctors to gain an understand of their needs. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. The post The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For today’s Health Populi blog, I choose to focus in on a key theme in my work right now — the convergence of retail health, primary care, consumers’ home economics, health care access, and the future of U.S. health care financing. The Report synthesizes a database covering |300M American lives and 2.7M

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. Speaking of genomic testing… how does 23andMe fit into the health-to-healthcare scenario?

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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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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. In a hyper-localized business like healthcare, this situation put CMH at a disadvantage against its competitors.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. As the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – A staggering 100% of patients believe that telemedicine-supported Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) should remain available even after the pandemic comes to an end, according to new findings from a survey conducted by Bicycle Health. Opioids and the Healthcare System.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. But telehealth can help in a significant way.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2020

Over one in four patients did delay a visit to a doctor; two-thirds of these patients delayed an appointment regarding an existing condition, shown in the second bar chart. One-third of consumers had participated in a telemedicine visit in the past three months looking back from 14th May, the third chart illustrates. The post More U.S.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

But they are also a long-standing challenge to healthcare organizations that can affect the patient's care quality, increase healthcare organization costs and present unnecessary reductions in overall patient access to healthcare appointments. UHP also increased access to virtual care extending hours to 89 per week.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Zsolt Kulcsar, medical director at Lee Health based in Fort Myers, Florida, says what he has learned in recent years is that telemedicine is great, but it also is a little limiting. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 22, 2021

– The acquisition adds Lemonaid Health’s innovative telemedicine and prescription drug delivery services to 23andMe’s consumer business. Online Doctor’s Office & Medicine Delivery. The company leverages evidence-based guidelines and the most up-to-date clinical protocols to provide quality care for less than typical co-pays.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"Many of our patients struggle with transportation issues, whether it is available or accessible public transportation or physical disabilities that make a trip to the doctor's office difficult," Stone said. "Both vendors are HIPAA-compliant and work with healthcare providers nationally. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. When good enough … isn't. and 10 p.m.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. Overall in-person visits to doctors fell by over 70%.

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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. healthcare system.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Check out this 1940s ad from Blue Cross (“Plan for Hospital Care”) and Blue Shield (“Plan for Doctor Care”). These were the early days of fee-for-service healthcare in America. Think sustainability for health and health care. Think value-based care.

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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

APRIL 18, 2019

What will telemedicine look like in 2030? imagined Kaveh Safavi, Accenture’s Senior Managing Director and Health of Global Healthcare Practice. This week convened the ATA annual conference where healthcare industry stakeholders met up to deal with the current telehealth environment and imagine what the future prospects would/could be.

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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 called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. Specialty care. Specialty care. Four in five U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. This slows down overall healthcare spending until May 2021. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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