Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Data becomes a vital sign – it's our new pulse," she said. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. NYC H+H patients would then be scheduled for same- or next-day clinic-based infusion therapy.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. But what can provider organizations do to accelerate virtual care adoption? In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them. More about this episode: Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We spoke with a heavy hitter in the world of telehealth, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, president and CEO of Amwell, one of the big players in telemedicine technology and services, to get his views on how his predictions from last year turned out and where virtual care is headed in 2023. How did that prediction turn out? How did that turn out?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telemedicine demands personalized care at scale for complex conditions, ramping up the move toward concierge care, and increasing access to the best medical expertise, The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic continues. It's clear that virtual care is now a permanent mode of healthcare access and delivery.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

"This makes it difficult to personalize and push meaningful interactions," he said. Digital transformation also is essential in making an impact on quality improvement and cost containment goals associated with value-based care initiatives." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " Matthew Warrens, UnityPoint Health.

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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. We quickly saw value in Zoom’s flexibility and inherent familiarity for many users, both staff and patients. And it did the trick.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 17, 2023

Commonwealth Care Alliance is a healthcare services organization that offers health plans and care delivery programs designed for individuals with significant needs. CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Australia is facing a shortfall of at least 110,000 aged care workers by 2030 , according to a projection by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. One of Australia's longest-serving residential aged care providers is taking a shot at this pressing challenge with a modern, virtual solution.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2022

As telehealth continues to be a popular modality for care delivery, advocates, organizations and some lawmakers have stressed the importance of ensuring maximum access. Requirements for health plans to cover telehealth services on the same basis as in-person ones. WHY IT MATTERS. Equitable and fair payment for physicians.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. "This combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payer approach," said Karen S. billion.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed. "Another problem was the lack of continuity of care," said William Manzie, administrative director of telehealth at Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Florida.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Teladoc Health announced this week that it was partnering with Amazon to launch voice-activated virtual care on Alexa-supported Echo devices. "We are meeting consumers where they are, to continue to deliver value and high-quality care to members," Boyer said. According to the companies, U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2024, healthcare and health IT will feel the continued erosion of traditional care paradigms, be impacted by a retail shift from exuberant expansion to the long game of execution, and will finally, at long last, witness the death of the fax machine. Retail healthcare will continue to supplant primary care. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 19, 2022

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. When Groups saw the gap in quality it was approaching with its previous technologies, it took a big step back to reevaluate its virtual treatment services.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system. " Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. Jamy Ard, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. "The No.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 15, 2023

Since its inception more than 60 years ago, Community Health Network, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit health system, has worked to stay true to its tagline: “Exceptional Care. THE PROBLEM The rapid shift to consumer-centric care, spurred by the pandemic and the arrival of Big Tech , has created a competitive landscape in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare. " This technology enhancement also allowed staff to better care for patients with COVID-19 who are hospitalized in the newly built emerging infectious diseases unit.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The success of Groups Recover Together's care model relies heavily on building a supportive community for its members. Before COVID-19, this was in the form of weekly, in-person group therapy. In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

"So, the pandemic and the lockdowns created some potential gaps in access to care that we needed to predict and fill," said Navdeep S. And this further reduced their ability to access care and hampered achievement of their treatment plans. The organization mostly was using telehealth between its various locations.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

(Nasdaq: WBA) is continuing to expand its health care services capabilities. The latest investment comes through a partnership with Pearl Health, a provider enablement company that will help accelerate the expansion of value-based care under the Walgreens umbrella. Dr. Harry S. Healthcare at Walgreens.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. " "The virtual tool also gives our staff the opportunity to immediately reach out to that patient if we notice they are struggling during initial engagement."

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Healthcare It News

JULY 26, 2023

To answer these questions, Healthcare IT News sat down with Zack Tisch, senior vice president of innovation and life sciences at Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company. Health systems must proactively manage the populations they serve, especially if they aspire to meet patient care expectations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health. Katie Davis, senior vice president of clinical operations at Vesta Healthcare, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Recruitment and retention pose formidable challenges for home-based care operations, and every aspect of the employee experience — from onboarding to career pathing — offers new opportunities to mitigate the impact of today’s staffing crisis.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2023

The at-home care startup MedArrive has announced a new collaboration with Heartbeat Health, one of the largest tech-enabled virtual cardiology companies in the country. Often leveraging EMT works, MedArrive both coordinates and delivers at-home care to health plan members. According to a study in AHA Journals, the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2022

Now, of course, healthcare consumers have more alternatives than ever, because care models and technology have evolved so much in recent years. In part, that means they don't always want to have to call and sit on hold to get a healthcare issue resolved. Why do you hold text and chatbots in such low regard?

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