Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

bn , much of which went into niche applications like lab testing, medication adherence, and on-demand triage for urgent care. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC launched a virtual-first, full-service primary care clinic offering a complete spectrum of care to patients aged 18 and above.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

. – Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today. With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., It’s important to note that these reviews aren’t limited to primary care physicians.

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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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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

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

These include the use of online patient portals (for 57% of clinicians) along with digital devices and mobile apps that integrate with the EHR as well as health patients manage their health in self-care mode, shown in the bar chart labeled Figure 7. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“To improve patient outcomes, we have to involve a patient’s family and significant others in their care, because it must extend beyond the four walls of the hospital,” says Dr. Reetu Singh, senior medical director, clinical documentation integrity at AdventHealth. Say you have a virtual checkup, and your doctor orders a blood test.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Doctor-led groups are also rising to compete. 2: Healthcare consumers will turn to integrated healthcare systems. Why do today’s healthcare consumers seek out integrated systems? 4: Marketers will increasingly embrace integrated marketing campaigns instead of digital-only efforts. In a word, convenience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

A decade later, can Walmart re-imagine primary care the way the company did low-cost medicines? Here’s a New York Times article from 2014 discussing the company’s vision for expanding primary care. Today, that low-cost generic Rx is ubiquitous in the retail pharmacy.

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Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

MidCoast Health System — an El Campo, Texas-based health organization that has four hospitals, with several primary and specialty clinics, plus urgent care and long-term care facilities — became the initiative’s first participant. The company’s staff includes PTs, OTs, speech therapists, dietary specialists and others.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

"In addition, we could use the device to enhance other video visit workflows like that in schools or an urgent care setting for patient overflow," he noted. Baptist Health partners with local physicians if a student needs to be seen and cared for beyond what can be done virtually. "Earache at 9 p.m.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This could include continuous glucose monitoring devices that are integrated with mobile apps and better pulse oximetry and cardiac rhythm detection built into wearables. Rule changes are already being considered at the state and federal level for cross-state reciprocity and expanded payment models, which will help.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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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. Patients in the ED often need follow-up care from a primary care physician or specialist.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 13, 2023

That is why perhaps we have devolved (because I don’t think it is beneficial evolution) to the proliferation of psychiatric medications being prescribed at such high frequency by primary care physicians and nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and other professionals. More on Primary Care.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I honor all healthcare professions and the roles we play, but I do know that nurse practitioners bring very real value in terms of quality focus on patient care, efficiency, and really making that human connection to ensure that our patients are healing and able to live their best possible life.’’ I’ve done the leadership academy.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Thomas is the Chief Growth Officer at GenieMD and host of The Virtual Shift: Reimagining the Delivery of Care. His expertise is virtual care. As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?…

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For example, a patient may have seen their primary care physician for an annual check-up, as well as been treated for a serious condition in a hospital belonging to that same HCO. If there are different EMRs for primary care offices and the hospital, that individual now has two different and disconnected records in that one HCO.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

Other leading operators using this center model include ChenMed’s Dedicated clinics and Humana’s CenterWell clinics (formerly Partners in Primary Care). In a different clinic approach, VillageMD has partnered to create full-service primary care clinics co-located with Walgreens locations. Phrase of the Day.

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Health Care Success

JANUARY 4, 2022

Accessible and responsive doctor-patient email communication. More than half ( 51% ) of Press Ganey survey respondents said they used the internet to research and select a new primary care provider, a statistic that has steadily increased for the past three years. People” refers to your doctors and staff.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. As the co-founder and former chief medical officer of Landmark Health, he was integral in helping build a company that would eventually catch the eye of UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness. Worries about health care costs, now crossing over into higher-earning households, underpins the growth of consumerism.

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