Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2023

The Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI) is a microcosm of the larger trend that is home-based primary care. This type of care is proliferating across the U.S., That success has driven the start of new projects, but also additional excitement around bringing home-based primary care back in vogue across the whole country.

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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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Doctors Ambulatory Care Telemedicine Urgent Care 118

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2021, nearly one-half of hospitals and health systems ranked in Tier 2, with in Kaufman Hall’s words, “a thoughtful approach to becoming more consumer centric,” investing in digital infrastructure and programs across the enterprise.

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Primary Care Hospitals Ambulatory Care Integration 77

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. healthcare spending, with curves moving up and to the right, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund moving into the opposite direction toward insolvency by 2033.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 24, 2022

The effect of Friday's opinion will be felt by providers, medical groups and hospitals across the country, including primary care doctors and emergency physicians, experts say.

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Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2022

billion into a joint venture (JV) to further expand its senior-focused value-based primary care clinics. Specifically, Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care arm will be the partner in the expanded WCAS relationship. CenterWell is the largest senior-focused, value-based primary care group in the U.S.

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Primary Care Doctors Nursing Medicare 78

Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Want to help make a big change for our nation’s overworked doctors? 834 , the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to confront the country’s growing shortage of doctors. Take both worst-case scenarios, and we are short 125,100 doctors. Certain categories of hospitals will each receive at least ten percent of the positions.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. With 15,000 team members, 3,000 providers and $3.1

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Health Populi

MARCH 30, 2020

Today, March 30, is National Doctors Day. We honor doctors annually on this day. The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of physicians showed a growing anomie among doctors working in the U.S. doctors, including: Too many bureaucratic tasks. On this National Doctors Day, please do honor your physician(s).

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. Defaulting to in-person visits takes up a lot more time and money for both patients and doctors.

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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. It’s also hoping to better care for patients as they become more sick and complex when discharged to home health or other settings.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2023

Crotty: In the United States, advancing technology has moved care more toward hospitals, doctors’ offices or advanced facilities. This has created multiple chokepoints – access can be limited and wait times are long for many doctors, and frankly there aren’t even enough primary care providers.

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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. It is supporting the National University Health System, Singapore General Hospital, and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in their respective virtual ward service trials.

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Healthcare Primary Care Quality of Care Doctors 179

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

"For example, a patient would be in their living room and ping the doctor to let them know they have a specific condition they are concerned about, and they're wondering what should they do about it?" Lee Health is sending fewer people to hospitals and emergency departments.

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Hospitals Telemedicine Urgent Care Primary Care 306

Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Transitions from hospital to home remain one of the biggest problem areas for the U.S. health care system. There are benefits of a patient staying in the hospital. Home-based care enablers are targeting that precious transition period to ensure that patients don’t feel the loss of the hospital post discharge.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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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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Primary Care Healthcare Telemedicine Urgent Care 247

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So in today’s Health Populi we turn to a new report, Health Care Disruption 2023 Outlook , part of AHA’s “The Buzz” market scan initiative. The American Hospital Association is taking disruption seriously right here, right now, as the U.S. markets by 2025 and planning for 1,000 by 2027.

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Hospitals Primary Care Home Care Patient Experience 68

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers in average primary care office visits, according to the company. "How do you identify that someone is socially isolated, does not have an adequate supply of nutritious food, is experiencing domestic abuse or is not able to take their medications as directed by their doctor?,"

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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. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Hospitals Life Sciences Telemedicine Primary Care 152

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

"Since one in four young adults have diabetes but don’t know it until they end up in the hospital in an emergency, having this kind of capability within a tool is amazing," he continued. "Also, because hospitals are often so short-staffed, they sometimes can’t accept patients right away."

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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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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. When I look at home care, or personal care, that largely hasn’t changed. A long time ago, home-based primary care was the norm. It’s completely flipped.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pentavere partners with hospital networks on data abstraction and structuring. The company, founded by Google AI division veteran Adrian Aoun, shared its plans to move beyond direct-to-consumer primary care while announcing $100 million in investments to manufacture and deploy the pods on Wednesday.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. We began by helping people tackle hair loss and sexual health, as these are common conditions that cause social anxiety and can be embarrassing to talk about with someone, even a doctor. First we launched primary care.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Doctors Patient Safety 328

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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Hospitals Primary Care Population Health Doctors 97

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over an eight-week trial of the company's RPI platform, 81% of patients who had their diabetes managed by the AI achieved glycemic control of their diabetes compared to 25% of patients who received traditional care, according to the new partnerships announcement.

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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”). Back in that day, “1 family in 3 got a hospital bill” and “A doctor bill came with each hospital bill…most likely for surgery.”

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Primary Care Doctors Nursing Hospitals 68

NASHP

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rising prices for health care services are a major determinant of increased health care spending and health insurance premiums. Hospital prices (for inpatient and outpatient care) are the largest driver of rising health care spending in the commercial market in the U.S.

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Hospitals Primary Care Regulations Accountability 112

KHN

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Doctors find entering notes and data into poorly designed EHR software cumbersome and time-consuming. A 2016 study found that doctors spent 37% of a patient visit on a computer and an average of two extra hours after work on EHR tasks. Some create doctors’ notes in real time; others annotate after visits.

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Doctors Law Firms Primary Care Hospitals 90

HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Vytalize Health raises over $50 million to advance its value-based care platform for seniors helping primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven, holistic, and personalized care. Specializing in Medicare Value-Based Care Programs.

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Primary Care Medicare Doctors Integration 98

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD provides services for big tech giants like Amazon and for small primary and urgent care healthcare provider organizations. Through the Amazon app or on the Clinic page, their customers can choose SteadyMD’s licensed doctors and nurse practitioners to address more than 30 common health concerns.

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Urgent Care Primary Care Hospitals Doctors 234

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. All of those pages and pages of forms you get at a doctor's office? With prescheduling, doctors are able to populate your medical record before you get there.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. 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.

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Telemedicine Patient Experience Integration Primary Care 308

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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