Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways. First you suggest it can provide high-touch care coordination for preventive care, chronic condition management and mental health services. You further say virtual primary care can improve access to care and improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

We interviewed Qureshi for a deep dive into how hospitals and health systems can harness ChatGPT and other LLM technologies to improve patient care, how provider organizations can use LLMs to ease clinician workload, and how providers can deploy ChatGPT and LLMs to empower patients.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

And you don’t have to search long to find stories like this: A hospital in Missouri gave their staff panic buttons after hospital staff assaults rose from 40 in 2019 to 123 in 2020—more than a 200% increase. However, if you prioritize the health and well-being of your staff and the patients they treat—accolades are likely to follow.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2024

. – In her new role as CIO, Trainor will oversee the design, implementation, and utilization of information services across the organization’s vast network of 46 hospitals, 370+ health and urgent care centers, and its cutting-edge Connected Health program.

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 8, 2024

For medical organizations, the best packaging goes beyond mere window dressing and encompasses the entire patient experience (e.g., Aligning your patient’s tangible experiences with the image you want to convey is essential. Hospitals and health systems can also achieve promotional success by packaging service lines (e.g.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Director of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Healthcare delivery continues to evolve to meet ever-changing patient demands. Telehealth visits increased 26x during the COVID-19 pandemic and have since leveled off, but are still a preferred method for many individuals and types of care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health says the service will enhance the patient experience beyond what is traditionally available in an in-person clinic. The new subscription-based telehealth program also expands the system's virtual care offerings. The virtual care system has become a multi-use digital health tool , according to Dr.

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Health Populi

JULY 7, 2023

. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?” See my Hot Points below, discussing my views on the morphing of health care real estate from Pill Hill and inpatient hospitals to the home and closer-to-home sites. ” you might ask. ” JLL polled 4,037 U.S.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As regulatory uncertainty lingers around hospital at home , DispatchHealth leaders believe there is still plenty of momentum behind the model. “I I don’t know if I fully agree that things are on pause with hospital-at-home,” Kevin Riddleberger, co-founder and chief strategy officer for DispatchHealth, told Home Health Care News.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. "Through virtual consultations, patients meet with their surgeon as a 'meet and greet' for pre-surgical evaluation, care plan education and instruction covering the intra-hospital transfers prior to the surgery," Skrzynski explained.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The retail health landscape continues to grow, now with GNC Health offering a new program featuring telehealth and “curated set” of 40+ generic prescription drugs commonly used in urgent care settings. in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

. – Amenities plans to use the additional capital to further accelerate the adoption of the company’s groundbreaking Digital Front Door platform designed to help health systems improve access to care, deliver personalized patient experiences, and earn loyalty through membership programs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

As we start at this fairly nascent moment in the hospital-to-home movement and migration in the U.S., ” Health Populi’s Hot Points : “Self-care is the new healthcare,” Monigle’s latest report on Humanizing Brand Experience, Volume 6, health care edition , called out.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Further substantiation for nurses’ topping this poll of excellent care is that Gallup found historic low confidence in the U.S. Nurses have ranked highest in honesty and ethics in past Gallup polls , demonstrating the profession’s consistent image and delivery of services that patients highly value on the front lines of care.

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Healthcare Leadership

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2021, the National Center of Health Statistics published the results of a survey on the utilization of urgent care centers and retail care clinics. of men had one or more visits to an urgent care center or retail health clinic in the past 12 months. They found: In 2019, 32.3% of women and 26.0% References.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2018

Hospital and healthcare providers are getting real about improving patient and health consumer experience, the latest Kaufman Hall research finds. Roughly one-in-five providers is planning or developing virtual care services. So the moral of this story is if you delight the patient, you do good and do well.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's largest hospital, with more than 600 beds, 6,500 staff, 43,000 annual inpatient discharges and 600,000 annual outpatient encounters. It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2022

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. She has experience in building digital workflow, analytics and AI technologies, with a heavy emphasis on human-centered design.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This includes delivering real-time notifications whenever patients experience care events, whether they are at a hospital or emergency department, or post-acute in nature (SNF, LTACH, HHA, IRF, hospice)—leading to better awareness and more complete care.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DispatchHealth — a company that delivers high-acuity care and other services in the home setting — has entered two new partnerships that increase access to its offerings. Originally launched as an in-home urgent care startup, Denver-based DispatchHealth delivers higher-acuity care, including offering hospital-level care, in the home.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, if a home health agency has a specialty program that has proved to be exceptional at treating congestive heart failure and keeping patients from going back to hospital for treatments, those are quantifiable data points that MA payers want to see. That was done through reductions in ER visits and hospitalizations.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Virtual care also offers an opportunity to enhance the patient experience, improve population health , reduce costs and improve the work-life of healthcare providers — the quadruple aim of healthcare. “To has a shortage of primary care clinicians, which means it can be difficult to get an appointment.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. "We also needed a mechanism for patients to see their families and friends while hospitalized in the isolation rooms," Koenig noted.

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Health Care Success

APRIL 19, 2021

Of necessity, healthcare systems, hospitals and medical practices responded with a dramatic change. Including tech-enabled delivery in the healthcare mix can reach more patients, enhance the patient experience and the continuum of care. The COVID year ignited many advancements for provider and patient.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

This partnership will integrate Carrum Health’s value-based Centers of Excellence (COE) program into apree health’s industry-leading ecosystem partner network, allowing employers to provide their employees access to more affordable surgical and cancer care from the top 10% of doctors and providers across the country.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In Episode 53 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience Jim Cagliostro is joined by Creston Tate, DO, Medical Director of WellSpan Health Urgent Care to discuss the challenges of hiring healthcare workers in the wake of ‘’The Great Resignation.’’. Demand for urgent care has intensified since 2020. Show Topics.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020.

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Health Care Success

DECEMBER 6, 2021

. “…how patients or doctors perceive the experience of interacting with your web pages will now affect your rankings in Google.”. Preparing for the update will ensure that your website has a positive patient experience and doesn’t drop in the search results. 3) Are you making these common paid search mistakes?

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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.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

The most prevalent convenient access points providers offer are walk-in clinic hours, “save-a-spot” urgent care, and same-day appointments, with online schedule, evening and weekend clinic hours, and online-self scheduling for new patients falling behind.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. as reported in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power is that only one in ten Americans have ever used telehealth or virtual health to substitute for an in-person visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, ER or urgent care clinic in the past year. And cost, to both the end-user patient and plan-sponsor, is clearly a potential advantage. The top-line finding from J.D.

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