Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. We recently switched our direct-to-consumer telehealth platform to Zoom.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "Patients are provided with a fingertip pulse oximeter device and one to three scheduled telehealth visits with a physician to ensure illness improvement." " Fourth, Care After COVID, or Long Haulers Program.

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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. This means their competition extends beyond brick-and-mortar providers in their communities or regions to include well-funded, highly recognizable national brands.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania. "Virtual first primary care provides patients with digital access to medical care, as they can consult with a healthcare provider from the comfort of their own home," he continued.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? 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. Second, telemedicine will become better integrated with local care.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Retail clinics, too, will see more consumers through behavioral economic nudges — health plan designs that provide financial incentives to members that choose to visit a retail clinic for a minor (not acute) medical event. Do not confuse this with the Amazon-JPMorgan-Berkshire-Hathaway healthcare alliance.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

Hims & Hers Health , the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers, and Carbon Health , a national healthcare provider, announced a partnership to enable easy and comprehensive access to a broader range of care options through the Hims & Hers platform.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

And what kinds of outcomes can healthcare provider organizations expect? To answer these questions, Healthcare IT News sat down with Zack Tisch, senior vice president of innovation and life sciences at Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company. And what kinds of outcomes can healthcare provider organizations expect?

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

"Instead, we were able to leverage our relationship to stand up a 24-hour urgent care offering through our virtual provider within days. "The app would allow them to select a physician or healthcare provider from a menu according to the provider's availability and then connect to that provider.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – New data from Carta Healthcare shows 83% of patients have had to provide the same health information or duplicate health information at a doctor’s office. 42% of Americans spend six minutes or more recounting past medical history at their doctor’s appointments due to a lack of integrated data processes.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For ongoing management of health and wellness needs, members also receive a personalized care plan that includes reminders for follow-ups and action items. Ambetter Virtual Access members will also have access to comprehensive non-virtual care through Ambetter’s extensive provider network of healthcare providers and hospitals.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The service easily allows for EMR integration with the right patient portal software. When scheduling online, patients are more likely to utilize other healthcare engagement solutions. Online scheduling services enable patients who lack transportation or live far away from healthcare providers to get the care that they need.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Virtual primary care is part of Elevance Health and its affiliate health plans’ ongoing efforts to elevate whole health and advance health beyond healthcare – giving people more ways to connect with their care providers, and integrating digital, virtual, and in-person care.

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

Employee wellbeing and support programs are emerging as vital healthcare trends. To better understand the most recent changes in healthcare, I interviewed the founder and CEO of Darwin Research Group , John Marchica. John is an expert in integrated health systems, health care delivery and value-based care models.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 17, 2023

Commonwealth Care Alliance is a healthcare services organization that offers health plans and care delivery programs designed for individuals with significant needs. CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To With virtual care, you are providing that care continuum, and therefore providing better outcomes.

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Lexis Nexis

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Care Delivery Diversification How care is delivered is rapidly changing with the expansion of retail health centers and continued advancement in the capabilities of digital health platforms. Department stores, pharmacies and urgent care centers continue to expand their retail health center footprint and the types of care they provide.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2022

Wheel will use the funding to further invest in its platform and broaden its white-labeled diagnostic services, enabling companies to integrate direct-to-consumer lab testing and diagnostic follow-up care. – Comprehensive care: Integrated virtual primary care, behavioral health, urgent care, and diagnostics into one solution.

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As these multilocation entities start to scale, they begin to bring on executive leadership to help differentiate themselves from alternative healthcare providers. For all these reasons, healthcare organizations have the opportunity to level up their marketing strategy. 5 Most Important Healthcare Marketing Trends for 2022. #1:

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What You Should Know: Prisma Health, the largest non-profit healthcare provider in South Carolina, recently paired two leading technologies to deliver a more seamless, integrated digital experience for patients: Gozio Health’s location-aware mobile engagement platform, and the Artera patient communications platform.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program supports the efforts of health care providers to continue serving their patients by providing reimbursement for telecommunications services, information services, and connected devices necessary to enable telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Round 2 is a $249.95 – Southeast, Inc.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. The company’s 2018 State of Consumerism in Healthcare report is out, subtitled, “Activity in Search of Strategy.”

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

"By getting these devices into the hands of patients and families, more complete visits with a healthcare provider could occur. "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. "Earache at 9 p.m.

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Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Engaged patients must communicate their health situation to providers, as well as their ‘values, beliefs, and risk tolerance regarding care choices.’” (3). But for patients, what makes a digital care management platform usable has more to do with content personalization and care continuity than the simplicity of its user interface.” (5).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re looking forward to hearing about the acceleration of technology-driven performance and accountability in healthcare. Providers need more supportive resources to be successful in more meaningful and broadly distributed risk models. And of course, we will continue the conversation on interoperability, data, and AI.”

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Cloud Blogs

JANUARY 27, 2021

They are designed to enable and extend an organization’s vaccination management capabilities and create end-to-end experiences for citizens, front-line vaccine administrators, and healthcare providers. Now is the time to expand this to medium and smaller-sized provider sites.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2023

To effectively analyze gaps in care and better serve patients, providers need all patient information in one place. Healow Insights brings together data from payers, hospitals, health centers, urgent care centers and other EHRs into a single source. MGMA reports that manually posting payments and denials takes 2.10

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions Employers incur approximately $575 billion each year due to their employees’ poor health, and the number of employees who spend at least $100,000 a year on medical care rose by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

What You Should Know: – Ribbon Health (Ribbon), a leader in healthcare provider data technology and management launches new platform features that will increase access to care through provider scheduling.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Late last year, Redpoint Global found that 80% of patients prefer digital channels to communicate with their healthcare providers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pre-screening symptoms Functional self-service surveys and symptom guides integrated with appointment scheduling help patients assess the severity of their symptoms. This is where your healthcare team needs to work together to identify particularly alarming signs or symptom combinations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These social determinants of health, or SDoH , are interconnected and integral to the overall health of communities across the world — and healthcare systems are taking note. . What they see in the ERs and waiting rooms can not be solved by treating the immediate healthcare needs of the patients alone. Over half of U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 13, 2023

But few, if any, of them are conducting their behavioral health work on an integrated or coordinated basis with other healthcare providers for the patients they treat. Oak Street Health touted its integrated behavioral health program that is part of its overall medical care offering.

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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.’’ Again, I had no ER experience.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The burden rests on the patient to manually gather information from system to system, collate it, and then communicate it accurately to each healthcare provider. With each year, these personal devices improve in both accuracy and data capture and provide another critical tool to clinicians when diagnosing and treating patients.

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