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Widespread Ultrasound Adoption in Primary Care Expected Within 5 Years, Exo Study Reveals

HIT Consultant

-based physicians, the report uncovers trends related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) adoption and use—such as challenges with existing solutions, their perceived value of handheld POCUS devices, and the impact of new innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and ultrasound expansion into primary care.

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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

The last big change, which is fairly recent – let’s call it the WellBe Senior Medical model – is primary care or longitudinal care in the home. A long time ago, home-based primary care was the norm. We make money by keeping people healthy and out of the hospital. It’s completely flipped.

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How Amedisys, Walgreens And Intermountain Healthcare Are Building 360-Degree Home-Based Care Models

Home Health Care

To this end, the company’s first notable investment was in VillageMD – a home-focused primary care provider – in 2020. “[It It was about] really helping Walgreens go beyond simply saying, ‘Hey, we dispense scripts, we sell bubble gum,’ but actually now we’re partnered at the hip with a national primary care group,” Dr. Harry S.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

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At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for establishing care-at-home models. Healthcare is hard.

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Contessa Health CEO: Managed Care Strategy Will Separate the ‘Haves and the Have Nots’

Home Health Care

We all know that there are a lot of problems in health care related to the fragmentation of home care services. Being on the platform really accelerated that vision of being able to provide everything from home-based primary care to hospital at home, SNF at home, traditional home health, home-based palliative care and hospice care.

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‘Much Bigger Opportunity’: BrightSpring Enters The Public Market With Ambitious Growth Goals

Home Health Care

It wants to leverage its home-based primary care capabilities to serve its patients in value-based models. BrightSpring’s home medication program, along with home care, has driven a 73% reduction in hospitalizations, it says. In terms of growth, the company plans to be very aggressive and acquisitive in the next year.

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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Take a visit to your primary care physician, for example. Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital. It achieves this by combining structured and unstructured data to build a more complete view of each patient to anticipate what their needs will be at the hospital.