Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park added that the service will see specialist paediatric advice provided to clinicians in rural and regional hospitals and paramedics in non-emergency situations.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Patients can do this from their living room, as opposed to driving to urgent care or the emergency department. Then, if they need to drive to the urgent care or ER, they're told to do so. Lee Health is sending fewer people to hospitals and emergency departments. " Dr. Zsolt Kulcsar, Lee Health.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. It was later expanded to support residential aged care facilities in April last year.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Clintel to power HEAL Urgent Care's upcoming Newcastle site Clintel Systems has been chosen to provide an end-to-end PAS, EMR, and billing and claiming solution to the soon-to-rise HEAL Urgent Care facility in Newcastle. It will also be used to handle pre-admission and post-discharge care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 19, 2023

DispatchHealth’s Advanced Care program — a home-based alternative to hospital care — was able to lower 30-day readmission rates, checking in at almost 50% below the national average. It was obvious to me, and our other other team members, that this was safe, effective and high-quality care for patients and their families.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

Joining the ranks of over 150,000 providers on the athenahealth network, ZoomCare aligns with hundreds of urgent care organizations conducting more than nine million encounters yearly.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JUNE 30, 2022

How do efficiently is care provided for patients at Veteran Affairs’ hospitals as compared to private hospitals? This is not an easy question to answer as the composition of patients differs between these hospitals. Would the VA also have better quality and lower cost for non-urgent care?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

. – Retail clinic growth had the greatest increase among all alternative places of service studied—retail clinics, urgent care centers, telehealth and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)—as well as emergency rooms (ERs), in a new FAIR Health white paper containing the sixth annual edition of FH® Healthcare Indicators and FH® Medical Price Index.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

According to a media release, this new service is for patients at risk of hospitalisation, including those with heart and respiratory disease and infections; aged care residents; and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities. About seven million Australians, or around 28% of the total population, live in rural and remote areas.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. Hospital outpatient departments prioritized providing care to patients at home rather than have them come into the clinic. THE PROBLEM.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 6, 2023

This can mean home health providers teaming up with health systems or high-acuity care companies. This can even mean high-acuity home-based care companies helping health systems, and hospitals extending their brick-and-mortar capabilities into the home setting. The company operates across 30 states in the U.S.

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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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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2022

. – As part of the partnership, Baptist Health will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic solution into its current telehealth offering, enhancing the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients with in-depth, remote physical examinations during virtual visits, including urgent care video visits.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Staffing a 24/7 platform.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. Brian Zack, system medical director for digital health at University Hospitals and associate chief medical officer at Ahuja Medical Center.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SteadyMD provides services for big tech giants like Amazon and for small primary and urgent care healthcare provider organizations. Moving forward, what do hospital and health system IT leaders need to know about telehealth companies like yours as the demand for virtual care increases?

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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

MAY 31, 2022

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. According to Avalere Health , nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today.

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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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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

Individuals without a primary care physician are often behind on health screenings, struggle to manage their chronic conditions, and are more likely to use high-cost settings, like urgent care or the ER, often for care that could have been treated in the primary care setting.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 16, 2023

The new subscription-based telehealth program also expands the system's virtual care offerings. THE LARGER TREND With the onset of COVID-19, health systems have been looking to digital tools to improve patient engagement, clinical care and patient outcomes.

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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. According to the American Nurses Association, 1 in 4 nurses is assaulted on the job.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Horner will also assume the role of President of Amwell Medical Group (AMG), the company’s clinical partner and a nationwide network of virtual care clinicians exclusively on the Amwell platform. With a focus on holistic patient care, AMG integrates medical and behavioral health practices to deliver a unified approach to wellness.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

for over 150 users across the health center’s network, including the hospital, outpatient clinics, ambulatory, emergency department, and urgent care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Implementation Timeline The enterprise-wide implementation will begin with care programs for colonoscopy procedures, specialty pharmacy, and congestive heart failure, with expansion to additional programs by the end of the year.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With a large campus – there are 18 acute care and specialty hospitals in a 21-county service area and much more, according to the health system's website – patients would often call doctors' offices to ask for directions.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

" The pandemic also further reduced access to routine care leading to an increase in preventable complications due to chronic conditions, including emergency room visits, hospitalizations and overall healthcare costs, she added. " PROPOSAL.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Solv Final Mile Benefits Solv Final Mile uniquely addresses these challenges through Solv’s proprietary APIs and tools that seamlessly link virtual and online care to in-person care through Solv’s national network of high quality urgent care centers, where 150M Americans today are within five miles of a bookable, same-day appointment.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company now provides a range of health care services to patients in their homes — aiming to prevent costly hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Initially known for in-home urgent care, DispatchHealth has expanded its services over the years, most recently launching a dedicated hospital-at-home program.

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Healthcare Success

OCTOBER 18, 2022

However, if your hospital or medical practice does not have a mobile app, you can still set up (and enjoy the benefits of) geofencing. Healthcare marketers can set up a virtual boundary around their hospital or medical practice to target local consumers or providers anytime they’re nearby.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Spanning more than 200 care sites across the state, the organization unifies hundreds of physicians, specialty and acute care hospitals, surgery centers, home care services, behavioral health and employer health services. "On our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience.

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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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