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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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Connecting Members With Primary Care Doctors That Provide Longitudinal Care. HealthTap is a nationwide virtual primary care provider, delivering quality primary care affordably to all Americans, whether or not they have good insurance.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With eight hospital campuses boasting over 1,450 licensed beds and a network of more than 1,000 employed and affiliated physicians, along with primary care and specialty group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics, imaging and diagnostic centers, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care facilities, Bridges provides comprehensive (..)

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.

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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. has a shortage of primary care clinicians, which means it can be difficult to get an appointment. healthcare system. For instance, the U.S.

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Health Care Success

JUNE 9, 2021

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. This growth is due to several factors, likely including a desire for revenue growth, expanded referral networks, and addressing population health disparities.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 23, 2022

“Over the years, I’ve worked in a number of fields such as pay-for-performance, child obesity research for the White House and addiction medicine, but where I really found my niche was in population health.”. The Denver-based DispatchHealth was originally launched as an in-home, urgent care startup.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. This relates to another key data point that illustrates patients’ shift to a health consumer mindset: their willingness to seek care in lower-cost settings based on costs. population health burden.

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Health Dialog

JANUARY 17, 2017

Every day, our nurse health coaches receive calls like these from members with urgent health concerns. In these instances, a nurse line program becomes an extension of the member’s pediatrician, primary care physician, nurse, or other trusted health professional. Urgent and non-urgent care advice.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The decline in primary care visits was not as severe as other measures because primary care includes any consultation with a clinician, whether in-person or via telehealth, through hospitals, clinics or urgent care centers. It’s possible to make inferences based on these numbers and the events of 2020.

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Health Dialog

AUGUST 6, 2012

If you have questions afterwards, you may feel left on your own to manage your care. As a primary care doctor, the challenges my patients faced were frustrating me, too. I wanted my practice to provide easy access to comprehensive medical care. It’s a new way to organize how a primary care office works.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions Employers incur approximately $575 billion each year due to their employees’ poor health, and the number of employees who spend at least $100,000 a year on medical care rose by 50% between 2013 and 2021. Mary Bacaj, Ph.D., About Mary Bacaj, Ph.D.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2024

A significant portion of visits – estimated between 13% and 27% – could be treated outside the ED, saving billions of dollars to health systems and allowing hospitals to focus on true urgent care needs. Sometimes chaos still occurs due to a major population health crisis.

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