Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Tech-enabled home healthcare provider Speedoc has tied up with Parkway Shenton, the primary care arm of IHH Healthcare Singapore, to expand care options for patients. The company continues to seek collaborations with both private and public healthcare providers to expand its mobile home care model.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Two months later, the at-home primary care provider has announced its first partnership, with Independence Blue Cross, to serve Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Most of the time people get care in a clinic, and that clinic is built oftentimes close to where doctors live.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models. And of course, in their favored brick-and-mortar hospital, ambulatory care center, clinic, or doctor’s office.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Unless you're looking at the cost across all of the healthcare elements – into the primary care, the home care elements – you won't have a full understanding of the total cost of care.

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Primary Care Hospitals Nursing Quality of Care 257

Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. I think that was a big change for home health agencies. When I look at home care, or personal care, that largely hasn’t changed. Can you explain what you meant by that?

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Primary Care Medicare Medicaid Nursing 97

Home Health Care

JULY 6, 2023

As the retail giant Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) delves deeper into the at-home care space, one of its clinical leaders said the company plans to make fewer strategic investments and acquisitions in the near term future. About 20% of people who are in an MA plan program don’t have a primary care doctor.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

So the vast majority of consumers look to doctors to help them achieve their health goals, the second chart illustrates. This is followed by feeling sick, prompting people to schedule time to see the doctor for more urgent (non-preventive) issues. Two in three consumers have made a health care goal to reduce their healthcare costs.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Andre Gomez, the executive vice president of Bedrock Healthcare at Home, said he learned that the hard way during his first job in home health care almost 20 years ago. The physician is the gatekeeper, they’re the quarterback, but everyone has a say when it comes to the care continuum.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

Wall Street has largely focused on CVS’s efforts to add primary-care practices and doctors to its payroll, though executives have also discussed their ambitions to expand its in-home health presence. agreed to buy the primary-care clinic operator for about $3.9 B last month. B last month.

Primary Care 97

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Chronic disease management, mental health, even a lot of acute care. Firefly’s services are 100% remote.

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Primary Care Prevention Home Care Doctors 86

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The top-line theme of the report is that, “The $260 billion primary care market is dominated by traditional providers in a fee-for-service arrangement, but that is changing rapidly,” the report begins. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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Hospitals Primary Care Home Care Patient Experience 68

Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

Like most of their home-based care peers, Friendly Faces Senior Care has faced challenges around recruiting, but James has leaned into a strategy that is working for the company. “I What are the other home care agencies paying, and what are other industries paying that are competing for our workforce?

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Care coordination with other important social determinant drivers – like personal care, transportation, meals delivery and physical activity, as well as clinical care coordination with the health system, primary care doctors and emergent referral sources for quality and timeliness of care, will all be important in the upcoming year.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Medical Management (USMM) is a home-based management services organization that serves 35,000 patients per month in 35 markets across 11 states. Outside of its primary care assets, its home health asset is Pinnacle Home Health, and it operates hospice through Grace and Comfort. The Michigan-based U.S.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2023

Chartowick sat down with HHCN to talk about the biggest lessons she’s learned in home care, home care’s role in the greater health care landscape, the importance of change in the industry and more. She was a specialty provider and a primary care provider. The need for home care has heightened.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System. Unlike many other leaders, he’s in the position to prove it.

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Primary Care Medicare Home Care Nursing 103

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Thus, the responses shared here were collected among a relatively more health-engaged consumer who has also been keen to use wearable health technologies in their approaches to self-care outside of the doctor’s office.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. adults were open to have medications prescribed by a specially-trained pharmacist instead of a doctor.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 29, 2024

“[Valleywise Health] invited us to be one of the partners to help focus on those social determinants of health, and put in place interventions from the home environment, and provide health coaching, education and navigation,” Wilson said. They’re making proper use of their primary care doctors and specialty appointments.

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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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Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals 171

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“We work with large MA plans like UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and Magellan to outbound outreach to those populations, consult and understand what the needs are for each unique individual,” DUOS CEO Karl Ulfers said during a presentation last month at the Home Care 100 conference.

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Primary Care Doctors Home Care Nursing 89

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Los Angeles-based Heal is among the in-home primary care providers working to “bring back the house call” in modern medicine. And often, Seniors have trouble seeing their primary doctor on a regular basis, with many of these care gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I CareMax Inc.

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Primary Care Medicare Telemedicine Doctors 83

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.

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Primary Care Medicare Prevention Medicaid 85

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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Doctors Telemedicine Urgent Care Primary Care 62

Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mental health will continue to be the epidemic beyond the pandemic.

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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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Telemedicine Doctors Primary Care Quality of Care 77

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The investment is of note particularly due to the type of health care providers First Docs currently collaborates with: hospice, palliative care and home health providers, among others. The best athletes cross-train, same thing here with doctors. Patients do better, and the doctors are better.”.

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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. Condition-focused providers include hims&hers, LemonAid, Ro and Tia, among others.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2024

The integration enables doctors using Epic EHR to leverage Sunoh’s capabilities to streamline clinical documentation and improve patient care. Vivalink’s Biometrics Data Platform offers a comprehensive solution for remote chronic and acute patient monitoring, facilitating seamless hospital-at-home care.

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Vie Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But the vast majority of the doctors and nurse practitioners that provide treatment to LifeMD’s patients across all 50 states, this is their full-time job and they love it. We have a team of doctors that really cares about building the brand and really cares about providing comprehensive care.’’

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Doctors Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care 123

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Like SCAN Health Plan, Clover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) has long seen the value-add in offering its MA members home-based care services. Clover has been providing home based care since 2017,” Jessica Son, chief medical officer of Clover Home Care, told HHCN. “I

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Medicare Home Care Hospitals Primary Care 75

Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2022

One of Florida’s largest not-for-profit public health systems — Lee Health — is beefing up its virtual- and at-home care capabilities. As part of Lee Health’s current virtual health program, eligible patients are identified by their primary care and specialty providers.

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Nursing Telemedicine Hospitals Primary Care 83

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

One factor defining convenience is travel time to a facility: 40% of patients with in-person doctor’s appointments traveled less than 15 minutes to receive care, and 43% spent between 15 and 30 minutes getting to the doctor’s office.

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Doctors Life Sciences Medicare Urgent Care 91