Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

Hospitals 103

Hospitals Medicaid Primary Care Secondary Care 103

Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

"This digital health tool and secondary care team lessens the pain of staffing shortages to care for current patients and increases the bandwidth of existing resources who then hold the capacity for adding new patients," explained Andrew Zengilowski, CEO and co-founder of CoachCare, an RPM vendor.

Integration 194

Integration Secondary Care Accountability Hospitals 194

Healthcare It News

MARCH 13, 2023

With the keen ability to manage patients between physician office visits and customize treatment plans, monitoring patients in between visits can reflect a positive effect on costs to the healthcare system where billions of dollars each year are spent on ER visits, hospital stays and re-admissions.

Secondary Care 193

Secondary Care Telemedicine Doctors Accountability 193

Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

That report spoke to the importance of connecting the disconnected health care landscape, including primary care, pharmacy, diagnostics, secondary care/hospitals, health technology providers, insurers, and information stewards, among other stakeholders in the fragmented health/care ecosystem.

Life Sciences 117

Life Sciences Secondary Care Prevention Primary Care 117

Health Care Leader News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These services can help prevent referrals, retain more patients in primary eye care for treatment, monitoring and discharge, and provide further options for co-management out of hospital. Unlike sight-testing, these services operate under the NHS Standard Contract and the new Provider Selection Regime (Table 1).

Secondary Care 91

Secondary Care Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Prevention 91

Health Care Leader News

MAY 11, 2021

Primary care networks are a key component of the NHS’s ambition for more joined up care, focused on local needs and more services being provided away from hospitals and closer to their communities. This will require more seamless pathways between primary and secondary care rather than transactional hand-offs.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Secondary Care General Practice Integration 52