Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS While its obvious main goal is to keep patients safe at home, the safe@home project also intends to raise their quality of life and make them more involved in this model of care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – Emcara Health and Aetna Better Health , which announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver primary care in the home to more than 240,000 Medicaid patients in the Miami/Dade and Tampa, Florida regions.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

The integration of the TytoCare solution into mPharma’s telehealth offerings enables pharmacies to provide patients with enhanced remote care through in-depth, physical examinations. Our partnership with TytoCare helps us bridge the gap in the primary healthcare space in Africa. As a continent with a deficit of 2.4

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a result, RPM is now an emerging area of intense focus and attention of health systems because it has long been recognized to improve data-driven care in the home and provide meaningful education to patients for self-management in a way that can provide revenue for the treatment team, he added. in Room W307A at HIMSS24 in Orlando.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. This targeted, patient-centered approach can help to optimize care while minimizing disruptions to the patient's daily life.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The next phase is hybrid care models that combine physical, virtual and automated interactions. It's this type of digital care delivery that we are focused on enabling our clients to achieve through an integrated platform approach that allows for a well-coordinated, seamless care experience across all settings.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“I am extremely grateful to the entire VHP team for their extensive capital, operational and strategic support, which was instrumental in enhancing the growth and success of AOC during our partnership,” Angels of Care CEO Jessica Riggs said in a statement. It also backs Integrated Home Care Services (IHCS).

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2024

MNGHA comprises more than 30 hospitals, specialty hospitals and primary care centers across Saudi Arabia, with all facilities linked to a unified EHR system called BESTCare. That gives the "advantage of having a huge amount of data," Al Ghamdi explained. "And that phase, it took about another six months.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2023

A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. A digital triage and consultation platform for use across primary and emergency care. A practice-wide communications system that can help free up primary care reception staff. Hypercare. Kare Mobile.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 2, 2023

That CenterWell brand includes home health care, primary care and pharmacy services. The integration of CenterWell’s assets is a key focus for Humana in 2023 and over the next several years. The same can be said for Humana’s primary care segment and risk model revisions coming down the line.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 19, 2023

is shrinking, especially among those who choose primary care. Advanced practice providers, such as Advanced Practice Nurses (APRNs) and Physician Assistants (PAs), are helping to fill that void. There are approximately 370,000 nurse practitioners that are licensed in the United States, and that number is growing.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

Its health care services arm, CenterWell, includes pharmacy, home health care and primary care. That connection of information across the benefits and the care services side has been so powerful and transformative for these patients to be able to have that holistic experience across the two sides,” Siddiqui said. “It’s

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2023

Its current and future home-based care initiatives were highlighted throughout, lending further insight into the breadth of the company’s resources and goals. Humana’s CenterWell – which includes primary care, home health care and pharmacy – includes what used to be Kindred at Home’s home health network.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

"Therefore, in an area with high rates of chronic disease, many patients may not be able to travel to the clinic for a weekly blood pressure check with the nurse, even though these are free and quick appointments." "We worked with our EHR vendor, eClinicalWorks, to implement integrated telehealth solutions within a few days.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

"Furthermore, an analysis of internal data showed a tremendous opportunity to meet consumers where they start their search for care and to optimize our experience to expand the markets and patients we serve. "So, we began to build a digital ecosystem to improve how customers discover, search and access care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It is also a provider organization through its CenterWell arm, which includes home health care, pharmacy and primary care services. Operating as both payer and provider has allowed Humana to lean into value-based care, according to Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, the president of Humana’s home solutions business. “You’re

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We had to ensure seamless reporting to get results into the respective patient portals and out to their primary care physicians.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

HRSN Initiatives : In the interest of increasing the accessibility and quality of care to address HRSN, the Demonstration Amendment seeks to improve integration between primary care providers and community-based organizations.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 28, 2023

(Nasdaq: WBA) has been building out its health care delivery arm – which includes home-based care capabilities – for some time now, just like its retailer competitors. Pairing primary care and home-based care capabilities is a way to drive value-based care moving forward. There’s good reason for that.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

When Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) invested $1 billion into VillageMD , it was largely viewed as a way for Walgreens to enhance its primary care approach, especially in underserved communities. And then we also made an investment in CareCentrix that really focuses the post-acute care episode of a patient’s journey.”.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Empowering Individuals with Complex Needs The Cityblock Care Model from Cityblock University on Vimeo. Cityblock’s unique care model connects members to a dedicated team of healthcare professionals, including primary care providers, behavioral health specialists, community health partners, nurse care managers, and more.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Through the Amazon app or on the Clinic page, their customers can choose SteadyMD’s licensed doctors and nurse practitioners to address more than 30 common health concerns. This means their competition extends beyond brick-and-mortar providers in their communities or regions to include well-funded, highly recognizable national brands.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

What You Should Know: Bridges Health Partners LLC (Bridges) , a Clinically Integrated Network, and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Highmark) entered into a multi-year Value-Based Agreement for Highmark’s Commercial membership in Western Pennsylvania. Established in 2017 through a collaboration between Independence Health System, St.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It presents state examples and key considerations for state officials via an organizing framework broken down by major components of the delivery system (from primary care to community-based and home-based services and supports) and reflecting essential principles for a modern system.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 12, 2023

Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships: HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care HealthJoy , a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Innovation Center also released the Making Care Primary (MCP) model and the GUIDE model this year, innovative solutions to achieve multi-payer alignment and focus on populations that have historically been underfunded in health care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 4, 2023

As in-home care providers look to use a more integrated approach to care, it’s critical to some that mental and behavioral health is part of the equation. Despite the added costs that come with offering those services, the need to care for patients with those ailments is undeniable. Lastly, we see the outcomes.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2022

“We fundamentally believe that caring for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs is most successful when they are supported by an interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, social workers, behavioral health clinicians and health coaches, through in-person and virtual approaches,” Harris said in an email.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

"Our virtual urgent care experience, Virtual ExpressCare, has allowed us to better meet the needs of our patients where they are while reducing the impact of structural barriers they have in getting care," said Erfan Karim, senior director of mobile integrated health at New York City Health + Hospitals.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sprinter Health and Firefly Health, two companies dedicated to improving access to home-based care, are partnering to bring a new hybrid model of telehealth and at-home care to patients in the Boston area. Firefly Health, based in Watertown, Massachusetts, is a virtual health care company that focuses on providing primary care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“It also gives us the benefit of a balance sheet and a portfolio of other service assets at Walgreens Health that we can work with to help enhance delivering more care from nursing homes and hospitals where appropriate — to the community,” he added. Brewer joined Walgreens from Starbucks in January. Doubling down on VillageMD.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

For close to a year now, Shetty has led Humana’s (NYSE: HUM) health care services division, which includes CenterWell Home Health, CenterWell Primary Care and CenterWell Pharmacy. Previously, he was the president of Steward Health Care System. Unlike many other leaders, he’s in the position to prove it.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 27, 2022

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Home-based care providers are no longer content delivering a standard set of care services. Instead, leaders at in-home care organizations are working strategically to enhance services, creating a more integrated care delivery model – a continuum of care.

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