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

APRIL 23, 2024

Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

“As a trusted brand in the health and wellness space, we are thrilled to expand our efforts in helping our customers Live Well by offering free healthcare services to give them the care they need,” Allison Bentley, the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at GNC, explains in the company’s press release.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot Development & Focus Areas The pilot organizations will provide valuable input to shape NCQA’s Virtual Care Accreditation program, the first of its kind, designed to highlight the quality of care delivered through virtual or hybrid modalities by diverse healthcare organizations.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

– TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it received FDA clearance for its Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection, paving the way for its rollout in the US.

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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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Etactics

JANUARY 26, 2024

In 2021, the amount of healthcare payments from the fee-for-service models equaled 40.5%. There are multiple different healthcare payment models. The models are all different in their method of reimbursing healthcare professionals, each addressing different aspects of: Healthcare delivery. Quality of care.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2023

Its current and future home-based care initiatives were highlighted throughout, lending further insight into the breadth of the company’s resources and goals. Humana’s CenterWell – which includes primary care, home health care and pharmacy – includes what used to be Kindred at Home’s home health network.

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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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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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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sustainability of our healthcare system was an interesting topic at Day 2 of the 42 nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California, expressed the concern that “[T]he status quo is an existential threat to our healthcare system.”

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Waymark , a San Francisco, CA-based Medicaid provider enablement company raises $42M in new financing to scale technology-enabled, community-based care for primary care providers and their patients enrolled in Medicaid programs.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2022

To reverse this trend will require not only resources, but also new business models for LMICs that can overcome the barriers patients face to receiving care, such as unaffordable, unavailable, or inaccessible healthcare services and treatments, and limited awareness of disease and preventative care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

– The acquisition will expand CareMax’s comprehensive and coordinated healthcare delivery system designed to improve overall health outcomes for senior value-based care patients. Bringing Whole Person Healthcare to Underserved Communities.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This post highlights certain key initiatives that may impact the healthcare landscape in NYS in the near future. HRSN Initiatives : In the interest of increasing the accessibility and quality of care to address HRSN, the Demonstration Amendment seeks to improve integration between primary care providers and community-based organizations.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). These sobering statistics were published in Health Care Spending in the Untied States and Other High-Income Countries this week in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2023

The shift to value-based care and an abundance of cash in the market are some of the drivers impacting healthcare mergers and acquisitions. If you are considering acquiring a healthcare business in 2023, here are seven things you need to know. Value-based care is becoming a key driver in healthcare M&A.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nathaniel Arana, CEO at NGA Healthcare As a society, we should all be concerned about the increasing rate at which private equity firms are acquiring physician groups. Healthcare has shifted towards a profit-driven model where physicians have minimal influence on the treatment plans for their former patients. The consequence?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2023

– The goal of the study, conducted by surveying 10 primary care practices of varying sizes, was to identify specific barriers and innovations required for mainstream adoption of value-based payment (VBP) models and their relationship to physician burnout. .

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Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Digital platforms for mental health can empower consumers to choose from a wider range of providers with different identities, affirming practices, or treatment approaches—qualities of care that are especially relevant to mental health.” Rock Health polled 8,014 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Chief Medical Officer at Lucet One of the most pressing and often overlooked challenges in healthcare today is how to reach and effectively treat dually diagnosed patients — commonly, individuals who grapple with both mental health problems and substance use issues. Related to this is the need for coordinated care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – Dedalus expands work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support global digital transformation in healthcare through hosting Dedalus’s health-related solutions on AWS. Transform the Digital Healthcare Ecosystem Globally. with additional migrations planned in 2023 and 2024.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Most older patients who had a telehealth visit perceived the quality of an office visit was higher (56%) and offered better communication opportunity with the clinician (54%).

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. Resilient Healthcare has used that trend to its advantage. Samuel identified two key areas where health care providers can take on risk, reduce costs and increase the quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As part of CVS Health, Signify Health will continue to advance its extensive primary care enablement capabilities, including turnkey analytics, network, and practice improvement solutions, to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement and improve quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

Health IT vendor DrFirst's applied clinical research team works with healthcare organizations to measure the impact of the company's technologies, including improvements in clinical outcomes, clinical workflow and return on investment. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group; Michael Thompson, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, and Andrea Cockrell, Administrative Services Manager, City of Plano, Texas. Dr. Stephen Parodi.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – IllumiCare , a pioneer in point-of-care healthcare information technology , today released a new report detailing how increased data transparency between health plans and providers on care and coding gaps results in higher compliance, process improvement, and positive behavior changes among network providers.

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Cloud Blogs

AUGUST 2, 2023

An unprecedented amount of data exists in healthcare. Care management in healthcare involves a complex web of patient information, communication, and manual processes that without integration can hinder the delivery of efficient and coordinated care. Figure 1: Care management patient summary page.

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Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group; Michael Thompson, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, and Andrea Cockrell, Administrative Services Manager, City of Plano, Texas. Dr. Stephen Parodi.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

My own research shows that there are system-wide effects and that the impact of capitation for primary care physicians on services may depend on whether specialists are also reimbursed via fee-for-service. However, it is not clear how increasing the proportion of reimbursement that is capitated impacts health care service provision.

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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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