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Baptist Health brings urgent care waits down to 6 minutes with telemedicine

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Staffing for urgent care sites has always been a challenge at Baptist Health, which is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, and serves that state and Indiana. "These virtual providers are centralized in our system and prior to the urgent care rollout already were available 24/7 for other virtual care needs."

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NYC Health + Hospitals keeps patients out of ER with virtual urgent care

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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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At Baptist Health, Epic-linked asynchronous telehealth boosts provider and patient experience

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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. " Dr. Brett A. " RESULTS.

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Memora Health & Virtua Health Partner to Streamline Patient Experience

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What You Should Know: – Memora Health , an intelligent platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management partners with Virtua Health , the largest health system in South Jersey, to streamline care delivery and improve the patient experience.

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Experity Launches $50M Urgent Care EMR/PM to Power On-Demand Care

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urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years. The company. The company.

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Memorial Healthcare finds success with switch to Epic-based telehealth vendor

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A South Florida-based academic medical center, Memorial operates six hospitals, including the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital; numerous primary, urgent and 24/7 care facilities; a health specialty center; and a nursing home. Notably, the service was successfully launched just two months later, beginning on January 17, 2023.

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4 Strategies for Urgent Care to Thrive During the Pandemic and Beyond

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A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.