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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare It News

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare It News

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telehealth helps address many key chronic care management challenges

Healthcare It News

is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." " As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. How exactly can telemedicine help solve each of these challenges?

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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

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. With recent advancements in technology and an explosion of non-urgent care options (e.g., Patient reviews have a greater reach than ever before.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. The 21st Century Cures Act has accelerated healthcare innovation, technology advancement, and improved interoperability.

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care. Shortage of primary care professionals, unequal access to care. The 21st Century Cures Act has accelerated healthcare innovation, technology advancement, and improved interoperability.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and visits for fear of contracting the virus in the halls, offices and clinics of hospitals and doctor’s offices. In other words, the U.S. You would have been dead meat.”. Crowe LLC estimated that U.S.