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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. Hospitals are not logisticians (with apologies to the materials management folks working hard out there in health systems).

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The Next Site for Hospital Care Is the Original One — Your Home

Health Populi

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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Why a Focus on Behavioral Health is Key to Improving Quality Measures

HIT Consultant

The overarching goal of VBC is to improve the patient experience, improve population health, and reduce per capita health costs. As part of this VBC mode l, hospitals and health systems must store, track, and analyze a large amount of quality-related data for compliance and reimbursement purposes.

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Telehealth Bolsters Patient Satisfaction (J.D. Power), and Providers Are Working to Catch Up (BDO)

Health Populi

Two studies published in May 2021 illustrate the value and importance of telehealth to patients in 2020, and a disconnect among many C-level executives working in hospitals, academic medical centers, and other care provider organizations. Consumers’ satisfaction with both health plan websites and information and communication.

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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

In addition, Walgreens will also work with providers to help patients discharged from the hospital transition to home. Best Buy Health and Geisinger expand their work together to bring a better level of care to more patients within the Geisinger network. FIGS, Inc. ,

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Improving Patient Engagement and Retention Through Technology

Medical GPS

From the exam room to the home, technology is transforming every facet of healthcare at a pace that’s both exciting and overwhelming. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have evolved to be more data-driven, personal, portable, and useful to both patients and providers. Even more so in the future, than ever before.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare It News

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.