Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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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. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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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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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System offers a 100% virtual care program for behavioral health integration that is delivered to patients either directly in a primary care clinic or the patient's home. The team provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to a wide range of patients.

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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. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group.

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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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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

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

JUNE 6, 2022

"Once the visit was ready to take place, patients would be taken to a two-way video screen where they could talk with a provider through a secure, HIPAA-compliant connection," she continued. "Care delivery options included urgent care, primary care, behavioral health services and chronic care management."

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Although many companies had plans on the books to advance telemedicine, the crisis revealed that virtual care is not only possible but in many cases is also preferred by patients. With virtual care, you are providing that care continuum, and therefore providing better outcomes. Our future is technology.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The services address primary care, outpatient specialty consults, emergency or urgent care, hospital, and outpatient mental and behavioral health — capabilities already in place that need to scale. The authors of the essay are part of Kearney’s Health Practice team. Not so much.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Walgreens and Pearl Health , a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians. to integrate claims and electronic health record data in multiple formats and normalize data. FIGS, Inc. ,

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They are all trying to tackle this issue of broader access by launching new primary care models and virtual services. I’m also starting to see talk around “ telehealth 2.0 ” – shifting from simply replicating the in-person experience to actually rethinking care delivery. Mark Engelen, CEO of RXLive.

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Medical GPS

MAY 18, 2022

To thrive in today’s healthcare environment, primary care as well as specialty care physicians must implement and maintain strong patient engagement strategies. Effective patient engagement produces improved patient retention and patient outcomes. (1). Telemedicine. ” (7).

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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 Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

John is an expert in integrated health systems, health care delivery and value-based care models. Beyond the “usual suspect” service lines such as cardiovascular and orthopedics, one of the biggest trends in healthcare is a renewed focus on primary care. Integrated Care and Consumerization.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michael Gorton, CEO of Recuro Health Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. It has been a remarkable journey for the innovators who pioneered telemedicine.

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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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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. Virtual care continues to transform traditional healthcare from a reactive, disease-focused model to a proactive, holistic system that is digitally integrated, patient-centric, and focused on personalized health and wellness.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2022

We can point to other events, too, continuing to re-shape consumer-facing healthcare, including the companies whose logos I’ve assembled for you here, All of these will impact health consumers’ access to and understanding of various health care services and products, across peoples’ healthcare journeys.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Similarly, younger consumers — namely Millennials, Gen Z and Gen X members — are more likely to seek primary care and services in new and novel formats beyond the traditional medical home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

to expand access to integrated primary and behavioral health care to younger people in America, and telehealth can be a practical and even desirable platform for doing so particular for the nation’s younger patient population. It is a critical time for the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 27, 2023

While there is quite a bit that can be gleaned by a video visit with observation and asking the patient to perform particular tests, the Baptist team was looking for a technology that would provide more. PROPOSAL Baptist Health found telemedicine technology vendor TytoCare. Oliver, chief medical information officer at Baptist Health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: “Complementing in-person care,” as Christopher Lis coins it, translates to the curation and construction of omni-channel health care services. We are talking about omni-channel delivery, which integrates across communications channels based on patients’ preferences.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

As more digital medication management solutions gain FDA approval, there is an increased opportunity to integrate digital support as part of the medication process and reduce medication abandon rates. And, patients and families are seemingly more frustrated themselves – often directed at people doing their best.

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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 Success

MAY 1, 2023

Here are a few elements to consider when building your plan Competitive landscape Target audience Market positioning Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis Budget Patient experience Strategy and tactics (e.g., clinical and administrative staff, employees, suppliers, and patients) will be a much easier task.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

As a result, about a third of the patients we see today live outside of a county where we have a physical office – prior to the pandemic that number was virtually zero. Patients with OUD face tremendous geographic barriers to receiving life-saving care: about half of all counties in the U.S. Create options for patients.

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Vie Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The three continuums of the healthcare digital transformation journey and why hospitals need to reimagine virtual care. It’s not virtual care versus bricks and mortar care, it’s the blending of the two that will help you reimagine.’’ He’s also the host of the Virtual Shift, Re-imagining the Delivery of Care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Ten years ago, two brothers, physicians both, started up a telemedicine company called American Well. They launched their service first in Hawaii, where long distances and remote island living challenged the supply and demand sides of health care providers and patients alike.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I honor all healthcare professions and the roles we play, but I do know that nurse practitioners bring very real value in terms of quality focus on patient care, efficiency, and really making that human connection to ensure that our patients are healing and able to live their best possible life.’’ Again, I had no ER experience.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted. Dozens of companies’ technologies are integrated into this home.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The company is offering a hearing device integrating deep neural network technology that offers “BrainHearing through the ear” in a customized hearing aid. Some big retail health news in 2022 was the FDA’s finally enabling hearing aids to be sold direct-to-consumer — more on that important development here.

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