Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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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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Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

As healthcare organizations underwent a significant shift towards virtual care delivery during the pandemic, the need for seamless integration into the digital health ecosystem came to the fore. Discussions also encompass innovative approaches to virtual care integration, regulatory compliance, and data security measures.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? Creating “virtual critical care wards” with telemedicine tools.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Access to providers is a challenge across healthcare. And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. "Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. This is not news.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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. In a hyper-localized business like healthcare, this situation put CMH at a disadvantage against its competitors.

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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. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2022

– Alpha Medical, whose services are available in 49 states plus DC and treat over 60 conditions with their virtual PCP offering, continues to fulfill its mission to bring convenient, affordable, and accessible medical care, medications, and resources to its patients. Why It Matters.

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Cloud Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Connected care at-home technologies enable behavior change and empower individuals and clinicians to make informed decisions about healthcare treatment. By using them, providers can enhance patient engagement, allowing for personalized and proactive care management that drives better health outcomes and better care experiences.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because of Hawaii's island geography and relative isolation, it faces unique challenges for delivery of healthcare services – a fact that staff members at Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii, know all too well. More than 10 years in the making. Recent technology upgrades this summer.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The American Medical Association, in conjunction with Manatt Health, published a report this week exploring the ways that virtual care and other digital tools can accelerate the adoption of the integrated delivery of behavioral and physical healthcare. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% – Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. in Q2 2022, with only Acadia Healthcare posting a gain in share price.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. What are the challenges that chronic care management faces today and into the future?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Rising costs, generational shifts, digital transformation, and fast-growing investments in new health care models and technologies are forcing change in the legacy health care, noted in the State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum , from Kaufman, Hall & Associates.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To ensure all New Yorkers could access this new service, NYC H+H also needed a telehealth vendor that enabled it to offer virtual urgent care to all patients in their patients' preferred language and without a clear need for the Internet or a smartphone. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Telemedicine has had an interesting history. During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consulting firm, has set out to determine whether telemedicine, a high-growth technology, is here to stay.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

To solve the problem, NorthShore University HealthSystem went with telemedicine technology from vendor TytoCare. There is a wide variety of vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Our ability to integrate scheduling for this service to our patient portal also was key."

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Some health systems have contracted with third-party telemedicine vendors that often require patients to go into a separate system that is not well-integrated with the health systems' other technologies. KeyCare is a virtual-first care platform built with Epic EHR and other technologies.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2023

In-person visits are still perceived more positively than virtual visits when it comes to telehealth quality, outcomes, convenience and utility, according to a soon-to-be-released healthcare survey of more than 6,000 consumers in the U.S., In healthcare, paying attention to the consumer is so important.

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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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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

"The other critical challenge we wanted to solve is one that every healthcare delivery organization faces right now – provider efficiency," he continued. " "If you're not already addressing the patient experience and access for care, be aware many others are going to do it for you." MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services. We’ve compiled the essential book for supporting integrated care, through published and validated research: 1.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke?

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

We know the pandemic has spawned new healthcare trends. With clients across the full spectrum of healthcare, we monitor how providers and other healthcare organizations are affected by COVID-19 and what they’re doing to evolve and survive. Employee wellbeing and support programs are emerging as vital healthcare trends.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

Healthcare information technologies like AI-driven decision support and patient outreach tools can enable hospitals and health systems to achieve improved outcomes through proactive, predictive patient oversight, some health IT experts contend. Why is proactive, predictive patient oversight important in today's healthcare industry?

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days. "Since then, we have provided more than 28,000 alternative or telehealth visits to continue patients' access to care from their home," she continued. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

COVID-19 forced healthcare organizations to make a huge leap forward in their digital transformation roadmaps. Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. healthcare system.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

But they are also a long-standing challenge to healthcare organizations that can affect the patient's care quality, increase healthcare organization costs and present unnecessary reductions in overall patient access to healthcare appointments. UHP also increased access to virtual care extending hours to 89 per week.

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