Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Employees using Galileo avoid more expensive visits to in-person specialty, urgent or ER care 80% of the time. More than 85% of patients report improved health after receiving care from Galileo. From there, we established partnerships with both regional and national health plans to offer virtual-first care to their members.

Telemedicine 254

Telemedicine Primary Care Medicaid Urgent Care 254

Home Health Care

JANUARY 20, 2022

The interview took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021. Kunu has worked in many different healthcare and home-based health roles. In 2010, he started Senior Solutions Home Care inspired with a motivation to help his own aging grandparents. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Home Care 84

Home Care Hospitals Nursing Primary Care 84

Home Health Care

MAY 16, 2023

DispatchHealth has formed a new partnership with Included Health, a virtual-first health care company that helps connect providers and health plans to deliver at-home care. I really liked their vision, and really liked the care management-first and a more clinical approach to virtual care,” Prather said.

Primary Care 93

Primary Care Urgent Care Home Care Nursing 93

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Best of Care diversifies offerings through latest acquisition The Boston-based Best of Care is the latest home care provider to diversify its offerings through acquisition. In 2018, it also began providing concierge-level care management. in seed funding.

Home Care 92

Home Care Primary Care Urgent Care Medicaid 92

Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

Urgent Care 118

Urgent Care Life Sciences Prevention Hospitals 118

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That flexibility has allowed more plans to offer in-home care services as part of their benefits. Aetna will also offer access to telehealth visits for primary care, urgent care and specialty care. MA is a form of Medicare that is administered by private insurers.

Medicare 105

Medicare Primary Care Urgent Care Home Care 105

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

.” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

Primary Care 62

Primary Care Ambulatory Care Hospitals Integration 62

Health Populi

MAY 25, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Our homes are increasingly the site of our health care — self-care through the traditional over-the-counter medicines channel, but more primary care and urgent care being conducted through telehealth and virtual care “digital front doors” as the current lingo coins it.

Urgent Care 68

Urgent Care Primary Care Patient Experience Home Care 68

Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2023

They should be in urgent care or in a retail clinic. I think a lot of that ends up in the home. Advocate Health Enterprises also acquired the non-medical home care provider Senior Helpers over two years ago. If you can figure that out with the economics, that would be a huge game changer in the health system.”

Hospitals 85

Hospitals Urgent Care Nursing Medicare 85

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Inside each HealthHubs is a care counselor who can help coordinate services for seniors, including in-home care if it’s needed. That’s what those care counselors are about,” Sharp said. Do that maybe 10 hours a month, giving members the support they need so they can stay at home, stay safe.”.

Medicare 106

Medicare Urgent Care Nursing Prevention 106

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

As Mostashari said today, it is becoming increasingly clear to primary care practices that the current system is not sustainable. Now I understand why my primary care physician tests me annually for inflammation through a C-reactive protein (CRP) test. GLP-1’s for Chronic Kidney Disease?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Ambulatory Care Primary Care Medicare 52

Home Health Care

MAY 10, 2022

Seniors in rural areas often face more hurdles to gaining access to home-based care, especially in comparison to their urban counterparts. The program is the latest development for the rapidly growing in-home care provider, which specializes in treating higher-acuity patients.

Hospitals 98

Hospitals Medicare Urgent Care Nursing 98

Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

One-half of doctors uses telehealth for continuous monitoring of patients, Overwhelming, medical and chronic disease management are the workflows for telehealth, followed by one-half of physicians using virtual care for specialty visits and 44% for mental and behavioral health. Specialty care. Care coordination and continuity.

Doctors 62

Doctors Telemedicine Urgent Care Primary Care 62

Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. This relates to another key data point that illustrates patients’ shift to a health consumer mindset: their willingness to seek care in lower-cost settings based on costs.

Urgent Care 116

Urgent Care Doctors Healthcare Population Health 116

Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

The green shades illustrate that consumers are “comfortable” receiving care via virtual providers and telehealth platforms, moreso than via any other care on-ramp — much more than hospitals, ERs, outpatient surgery centers, urgent care clinics, or walk-in clinics.

Healthcare 149

Healthcare Telemedicine Hospitals Urgent Care 149

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute. There’s a lot to take care of.”. Health Populi’s Hot Points: As of late May 2020, U.S.

Hospitals 149

Hospitals Urgent Care Prevention Primary Care 149

Home Health Care

JUNE 20, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In the broader at-home care space, Dr. Michael Le is considered an innovator. His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community.

Home Care 100

Home Care Nursing Hospitals Prevention 100

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.

Population Health 224

Population Health Primary Care Telemedicine Prevention 224

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

Krista Drobac, who leads the Alliance for Connected Care, was quoted in Modern Healthcare noting that the JLL survey , “failed to specify the types of services leading to in-person referrals and whether telehealth helped patients avoid emergency or urgent care,” the journal said.

Doctors 91

Doctors Life Sciences Medicare Urgent Care 91

HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

With a conventional stethoscope’s familiar design and intuitive workflow, CORE 500™ is designed for use across clinical specialties, including structural heart, primary care, urgent care, emergency medicine, home care, and virtual care.

Urgent Care 98

Urgent Care Primary Care Integration Home Care 98

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Our primary care clinics, our home health, our pharmacy and other delivery services that are payer agnostic will be transitioned to the CenterWell brand over the next few years. Humana has said it plans to only hold on to the home health part of Kindred, and maybe sell or spin off the hospice part.

Primary Care 81

Primary Care Urgent Care Nursing Integration 81

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care A modern behavioral health system of care is fully integrated into the continuum of health care services, including primary and specialty care settings, and extends into homes and communities to ensure holistic and coordinated support.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In my new book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds , I track the pandemic’s role in opening patients’ hearts and minds for care at home, using DIY platforms like smartphones, tablets and computers, along with downloading and employing mobile health apps.

Life Sciences 127

Life Sciences Telemedicine Doctors Urgent Care 127

Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When a sudden healthcare issue arises, patients aren’t always sure where to seek care. Scheduling an appointment with their primary care provider may take too long. On the flip side, 69% of patients with pre-intent to visit the emergency room or call 911 were appropriately redirected to a less emergent level of care.

Nursing 40

Nursing Urgent Care Medicaid Medicare 40

Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2022

Note the translations of these needs, on the ride, into the “care” flows — moving from urgent care down to self-care, preventive care, innovative care, and selfless care — the “we”-care for the collective, reflecting a sort of ESG for the individual.

Urgent Care 62

Urgent Care Prevention Healthcare Patient Experience 62