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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Urgent Care Integration Medicaid Primary Care 64

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The six virtual care programs are as follows. First, Urgent Care Telehealth. " Fourth, Care After COVID, or Long Haulers Program. Outcomes for the telehealth programs also were positive.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic. Second, telemedicine will become better integrated with local care.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

“You’re able to invest in that and actually see the benefit from a total cost of care reduction, on the payer side of it.” Integration and alignment has been a key focus at Humana when it comes to leveraging all of these pieces of the puzzle. “We We have the largest senior focused value-based primary care,” Agwunobi said. “We

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Primary Care Urgent Care Hospitals Integration 115

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“We’re working on additional expansions, likely to come in 2024, that will bring us into Washington, and a couple other states out in the Pacific Northwest,” Mike Stuart, chief growth officer at WellBe, told Home Health Care News. This leads to patients delaying much needed care. We’re excited to get started in Oregon.”

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., Highly recognizable brand names like CVS MinuteClinics, Walmart Care Clinics, Target Clinics, Walgreens Healthcare Clinics, and new companies like Optum Health, Luna Physical Therapy, Roman, and HIMS are disrupting the status quo.

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Private Practices Patient Experience Urgent Care Telemedicine 246

HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2023

Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. Coordinating and integrating across multiple vendors can be frustrating and expensive.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For ongoing management of health and wellness needs, members also receive a personalized care plan that includes reminders for follow-ups and action items. Ambetter Virtual Access members will also have access to comprehensive non-virtual care through Ambetter’s extensive provider network of healthcare providers and hospitals.

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Primary Care Urgent Care Prevention Integration 97

Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

While Millennials were least likely to visit a doctor’s office in the past year, they had the most likelihood of making a visit to a mental health provider, to seek chiropractic care, urgent care, and acupuncture — all services delivered outside of traditional medical home settings.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the healthcare industry continues to embrace new technologies, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is becoming established as a way to help chronic patients remain in their homes with health supervision to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and visits to the emergency department, urgent care facility, or physician’s office.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

42% of Americans spend six minutes or more recounting past medical history at their doctor’s appointments due to a lack of integrated data processes. Physicians, nurses, and medical office staff are highly professional, accomplished, and dedicated individuals who genuinely care about their patients and provide excellent care.

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Doctors Urgent Care Patient Experience Integration 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This care team is led by a dedicated primary care provider who will virtually deliver care and seamlessly connect the individual to in-person Optum providers and other health professionals when necessary. Powered by Optum’s Virtual Care Platform. NavigateNOW Costs.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

SAMHSA lays out the essential elements and best practices for a no-wrong-door integrated crisis system in its National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care : a regional crisis call center, crisis mobile team response, and crisis receiving and stabilization facilities. See the full resource guide.

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Medicaid Urgent Care Integration Hospitals 52

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Were GWI to re-calibrate this landscape today, post-pandemic, I would guestimate that the mental wellness bubble would be much larger, with personal care and beauty definitely bolstered in and in the wake of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

These include the use of online patient portals (for 57% of clinicians) along with digital devices and mobile apps that integrate with the EHR as well as health patients manage their health in self-care mode, shown in the bar chart labeled Figure 7. Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Virtual primary care is part of Elevance Health and its affiliate health plans’ ongoing efforts to elevate whole health and advance health beyond healthcare – giving people more ways to connect with their care providers, and integrating digital, virtual, and in-person care.

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Primary Care Urgent Care Health Technology Healthcare Providers 52

NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

Invest in prevention and early intervention. Enhance and streamline system of care for children with complex needs and their families. Two states have pursued more innovative approaches and were highlighted in a NASHP report on increasing access to behavioral health care. Expand outpatient and community-based service array.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 21, 2023

Using the term “enterprise” to describe a scheduling solution means that the system must be designed to access all venues of care across the full spectrum of a patient’s healthcare journey. Any system that fails to deliver this kind of breadth and depth should not be touted, promoted, or referred to as an enterprise scheduling solution.

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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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NASHP

APRIL 24, 2023

Additionally, the alarming rise in mental health challenges among children and youth underscores the need to integrate prevention and early intervention approaches across our child-serving systems. But the system remains fragmented and strained under the twin crises of mental illness and escalating overdose deaths.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While coverage varies, it includes offerings such as healthy foods, additional transportation, companionship and fall-prevention benefits. Aetna will also offer access to telehealth visits for primary care, urgent care and specialty care. This includes new markets in South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

bn , much of which went into niche applications like lab testing, medication adherence, and on-demand triage for urgent care. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. In 2020, investments in digital health reached $14.1

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Primary Care Physical Therapy Urgent Care Doctors 73

Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Some of those models are being done through utilization management, but the company is currently working on building a value-based care clinical model and figuring out what the reimbursement rate should look like for a home health company. In its case, that specialty is in-home urgent care. Humana and Heal together.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

With Eval360’s longer visits and detailed screenings, HealthTap’s PCPs conduct a review of health and family history, current conditions, medications, lab and device values, risk factors, and social determinants, enabling a personalized and long-term doctor-patient relationship resulting in improved condition management and prevention.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This should be reflected in not only the email campaign outreach strategies as above but also as an integral part of a health system’s digital consumer experience. If we are to close healthcare gaps, accounting for these preferences in care delivery options will prove critical.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

As Walmart looks to add Humana’s health insurance business to its expanding health/care portfolio, the company is building a vertically integrated offering with many on-ramps and front doors to health and wellness.

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Primary Care Healthcare Urgent Care Medicare 54

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– The Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, was awarded $643,231 for the purchase of telemedicine carts and telemedicine software, to provide a significant portion of non-urgent care remotely to a patient population that is both rural and low-income. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Southeast, Inc.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

employer, union) and the consumer herself who faces a lower co-payment for a visit to a retail or urgent care clinic versus the emergency department at the nearby hospital. [As More sophisticated and artful health plan designs are moving in this direction, to help bend the cost curve for both health plan sponsor (e.g.,

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 7, 2020

As another example, if you just got diagnosed with diabetes and you’re worried and confused about what to do, an experienced nurse on the other side of the phone who can guide you on how to take care of yourself can be a really welcome partner. A seamless experience from one service to the next is the best way to get patients engaged. .

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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Medicaid Integration Primary Care Nursing 52

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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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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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

America spends half of what other developed countries spend on primary care, despite it being the single area of healthcare that has proven to deliver actual cost savings with better population health results. People stop seeking out primary care in the times when preventive, proactive care could make the most difference.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

Pre-screening symptoms Functional self-service surveys and symptom guides integrated with appointment scheduling help patients assess the severity of their symptoms. This can also prevent vulnerable patients from waiting too long to get help, thus, reducing the occurrence of deadly emergencies.

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Urgent Care Nursing Hospitals Doctors 98

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

That’s when it comes to the safety measures, preventing health care-acquired conditions and infections, falls, making sure that patients are ambulating in the home, that we’re preventing delirium. Just like we would in a hospital, in the home. All of those basic things. What is the next step for these programs?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

One healthcare organization recently implemented automated outreach to follow up with patients seen in urgent care. The organization experienced an immediate 23% increase in appointments following urgent care encounters, reducing system leakage and driving revenue.

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Urgent Care Patient Safety Primary Care Patient Experience 98

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Similarly, they may be looking for additional opportunities to generate revenue, within a value-based care contract (such as preventive care), from traditional fee-for-service setups, or through work such as clinical trial enrollment. Some come from external providers such as urgent care clinics or telehealth services.

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