Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

The health system's expansion into remote patient monitoring is meant to directly address two of these issues. "For us, a key aspect was ensuring EHR integration was available from the beginning for our clinicians. With EHR integration, all patient information is available in real time for clinicians.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence. PROPOSAL So CMH launched a digital front-door patient experience project, powered by artificial intelligence. Convert online traffic into qualified patient leads.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

THE PROBLEM The massive health system recently set three goals: Improve patient outcomes by monitoring and actively managing patients with chronic diseases, with a specific focus on remote medication titration to get more patients to guidelines. More than 80% of patients are using Cadence devices 16 days or more a month.

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Primary Care Integration Prevention Hospitals 187

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This observation has not gone unnoticed by both new entrants and existing industry stakeholders such as health plans and pharmacies, many of which have added health care to their core businesses or have been vertically integrating their health care portfolios.

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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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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care. Consumerism has shifted the healthcare paradigm from provider-driven to patient-driven healthcare decisions and patient experience.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Adding the ability to remotely share that information with their healthcare providers in between doctor’s visits ensures that appropriate actions can be taken to achieve the best possible outcomes, as well as minimize or prevent comorbidities. These advances and integration of technologies can extend far beyond the individual level, too.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. We’re talking about a team sport here — to most effectively benefit patients’ outcomes from prevention through diagnosis and treatment.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many physicians work 50 hours a week : seeing up to 20 patients a day, spending an average of 4.5 hours entering electronic health records (EHR data), and managing patient loads of 2,000 or more. With faster service, they also deliver a better provider and patient experience. In addition, the U.S. Two million were denied.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 Some studies suggest that as many as 400,000 deaths occur in the United States each year as a result of errors or preventable harm. million deaths.

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Patient Safety Prevention Primary Care Patient Experience 81

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The CenterWell brand includes the company’s range of payer-agnostic health care offerings, including senior-focused primary care. Humana and CenterWell have been bullish on value-based care and Medicare Advantage, Benoit said, mainly because that’s where they see the future of home health going.

Primary Care 87

Primary Care Medicare Urgent Care Patient Experience 87

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

Demand for self-care, preventive nutrition and at-home consumption that makes health. The second graphic from IRI’s May 2022 Client Engagement work illustrates several aspects to self-care at home that’s holistic, covering food-as-medicine demand, home hygiene, well-being, health & beauty, and sustainability.

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Prevention Primary Care Health Technology Integration 115

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It will be essential that the industry has the data and outcomes to show the broader value impact — in addition to capacity, home health provides a more positive patient experience with lower costs. In addition, the impact to margin of the payer mix and specific payer strategies designed to maximize care will be critical in 2024.

Home Care 101

Home Care Medicare Nursing Integration 101

HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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Integration Patient Safety Nursing Hospitals 52

Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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Primary Care Home Care Integration Hospitals 174

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. They are all trying to tackle this issue of broader access by launching new primary care models and virtual services. It’s integral to physical health and should be treated as such.

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Telemedicine Population Health Integration Healthcare 98

Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Many patients in the U.S. have still not returned to usual care , some delays due to cost and some postponing needed care due to concerns about exposure to viral risks. The latest research notes that the volume of preventive screenings in the U.S. Consulting cross-borders: a bridge (or border) too far?

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The Beryl Institute

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In fact, in The Beryl Institute’s recent report on Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. , it was revealed that consumer engagement in healthcare continues to decline, with consumers reporting fewer visits to primary care providers, hospitals, labs and specialist providers.

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Health Advances

MAY 12, 2023

navigation, robotics), there is still work to be done to improve outcomes and patient experience. In this use case, AI will play a huge role as an augmentation to or replacement of primary care. MSK practices getting into primary and secondary prevention, consolidation of surgeons as procedure volumes decline).

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Accountable Care Doctors

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Learnings from COVID-19 must drive major changes in health care delivery, according to interviews conducted with physician leaders of the nation’s leading multi-specialty medical groups and health systems that participate in the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). Invest in Primary Care and Prevention.

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Sheppard Health Law

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In addition, only four models met the requirements to be expanded in duration and scope: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Pioneer ACO Model; Repetitive, Prior Authorization of Repetitive, Schedule Non-Emergent Ambulance Transport Model; and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Expanded Model.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, 4 in 5 providers and nurses see EHRs as important, and increasingly demand digital interactions with patients. The pandemic accelerated many providers’ initial adoption of virtual care, along with their growing appreciation for the value delivered by digital health tools in patients’ hands and homes.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Proactive MD has a total of 63 health centers and serves approximately 60,000 patients across several states. Proactive MD's mission is to offer high-quality, low-cost primary and preventive care directly to employers in onsite and near-site clinics.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This mindset translates into a more integrative medicine approach for patients… with food as a key component to whole-health therapeutics. Ana Negrón, participates in a community garden project where she grows produce and shows patients how to cook fresh vegetables, read food labels, and adopt healthier lifestyles.

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Hospitals Prevention Integration Healthcare 88

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The PHTI notes many benefits from using digital health, organized in this second chart captured from the report: For patients, the ability to self-care at home, more timely and convenient access to services (both primary and specialty care), improving medication management, and enhancing the healthcare experience (when well-designed).

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Population Health Prevention Hospitals Integration 62

Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

These pharmacies can be co-located with grocery store chains, Big Box stores, or be morphing into vertically integrated health/care delivery organizations like CVS Health or Walgreens-Village MD.

Healthcare 174

Healthcare Hospitals Integration Health Data 174

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias. Patients prefer familiarity and personalized care, and research shows this can lead them to choose a provider of the same race or ethnic background. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Since its inception, digital health services began the transformation from traditional healthcare — a reactive, disease-focused model — to a proactive, holistic system that is now recognized as virtual care. This remarkable approach to care is digitally integrated, patient-centric and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Dr. Amy Serin developed the technology for preventing and treating PTSD for elite military. Relieving stress has been a focus of digital health products at CES since the inception of the digital health program. This year, The TouchPoint Solution offers a wearable tech that is used during or after a stressful situation.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care. An integrated, systems and requirements-driven digital approach will put the whole patient back at the center of the digital ecosystem.

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Patient Experience Integration Patient Safety Quality of Care 98

Accountable Care Doctors

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The 31 multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems that are part of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), their 85,000 physicians, and hundreds of thousands of staff are at the forefront of the battle for their patients’ lives.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Integration Remote Care Population Health 59

HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

Digital tools that use natural language understanding close this gap so patients can more easily navigate the system, get accurate information specific to their situation and then take appropriate action like scheduling an appointment with their primary care provider. Multi-channel.

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