HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The response: A health plan is a comprehensive package of healthcare services and coverage that helps individuals or groups manage and finance their healthcare needs. Health plans are designed to provide a range of medical services, preventive care, and financial protection against the costs of healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Enhancing Healthcare Excellence: Bridges’ Integrated Care Approach with Highmark Bridges’ dedication to excellence has earned recognition from various national and independent organizations, such as HealthGrades, The Leapfrog Group, Quantros CareChex, IBM Watson 100 Top Hospitals, and U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Before HLTH 2022 kicks off next week in Las Vegas, we asked 17 digital health executives for their predictions and major themes to expect at HLTH. hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. Robin Shah, Thyme Care CEO and Co-Founder.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

What does this mean for healthcare and health IT? Because precision medicine and genomics generate massive volumes of varied and granular data, new approaches to data storage and exchange and new designs for electronic health records, for example, may be required. A lot of new challenges. Click here to access all the features.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Furthermore, there is another COVID-19 “hangover” that’s a real epidemic within and post-pandemic: growing mental and behavioral health prevalence, which we increasingly acknowledge as a next-normal for U.S. population health burden. The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.” Describing that low-utilization in their report, J.D. Condition-focused providers include hims&hers, LemonAid, Ro and Tia, among others.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. But retail clinics are no longer, as the paper explains, “an experiment of a few grocery stores… they’re becoming a major force in the U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Innovation Center, established in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act, began as an initiative to transition the health system to value-based care by developing, testing and evaluating new payment and service delivery models in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. Health care happens everywhere. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

In another factor to add into the retail health landscape, Dollar General (DG) the 80-year old retailer known for selling low-priced fast-moving consumer goods in peoples’ neighborhoods appointed a healthcare advisory panel this week. These three topics all occurred in the past couple of weeks.

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Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learnings from COVID-19 must drive major changes in health care delivery, according to interviews conducted with physician leaders of the nation’s leading multi-specialty medical groups and health systems that participate in the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). Invest in Primary Care and Prevention.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2023

“Brick-and-mortar pharmacies forge meaningful connections with customers” through conversations between pharmacists and patients, “on a first-name basis.” ” This quote comes from Christopher Lis, managing director of global healthcare intelligence at J.D. Each year, J.D. Power gauges U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The PHTI notes many benefits from using digital health, organized in this second chart captured from the report: For patients, the ability to self-care at home, more timely and convenient access to services (both primary and specialty care), improving medication management, and enhancing the healthcare experience (when well-designed).

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2024

For health care in 2030, I’ve thought about each driving force and then gotten more granular in the second column focusing a bit deeper on the factor and how it might play out in 2030. The post Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Here is a snippet of how I explained the Accenture research here in Health Populi when it was published: “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

HeartFlow’s non-invasive, cutting edge technology aims to improve the patient experience and make cardiovascular care easier for physicians. 13:30 Invasive treatments impact the patient experience Lauren said that over half of patients undergo diagnostic cardiac catheterization unnecessarily.

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Health Care Leader News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But we are not yet seeing the same advances in healthcare data. Cases where a GP entering patient data instantly appears in a national record, for example, are very few and far between. Progress is being made, however, and while real-time data may feel like the gold standard, healthcare demands a more nuanced approach.

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Health Care Leader News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But we are not yet seeing the same advances in healthcare data. Cases where a GP entering patient data instantly appears in a national record, for example, are very few and far between. Progress is being made, however, and while real-time data may feel like the gold standard, healthcare demands a more nuanced approach.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As providers continue to apply lessons learned from their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic to their delivery models and reimbursement structures, it is clear more must be done to promote value in healthcare. The patient experience also significantly improves when care is coordinated versus delivered piecemeal.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Consumers using more health and wellness services also spent more money at the drug store, a further motivation for retail pharmacies to take this study’s findings to heart (and strategic import). Pharmacy Study is tracking retail pharmacy’s growth in primary care. Power’s U.S. Power envisions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health environment.

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