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14 Ways to Reduce Long Patient Wait Times

Healthcare Success

To further complicate matters, as healthcare consumers continue to prioritize patient experience, physicians are leaving private practices for hospitals and larger medical groups at an alarming rate. of physicians remain in private practice. In other words, only 26.1%

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How Healthcare Can Take A Consumer-First Cue From Small Business

HIT Consultant

As a result, these tools cost practices thousands of dollars only to have many of these offerings create more work for their office. While private practices used to dominate healthcare, they are now a dying breed. Providers running a private practice today seemingly need not just an M.D., but also a Ph.D.

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Rise of Retail Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Payers

HIT Consultant

Nearly 70% of physicians now work for a corporate entity instead of private practices. Telehealth visits increased 26x during the COVID-19 pandemic and have since leveled off, but are still a preferred method for many individuals and types of care. The latest industry evolution is the expansion of retail healthcare delivery.

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How Physician Groups Can Fight Back Against Private Equity

HIT Consultant

Over the last decade, private equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion in approximately 8,000 healthcare deals, encompassing a wide spectrum of medical services, from fertility clinics to neonatal care, primary care to cardiology, hospices, and everything in between. The consequence?

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9 Healthcare Marketing Trends to Embrace in 2023

Healthcare Success

We regularly come across new, well-funded telehealth-based providers, including addiction, mental health, men’s health, fertility, online pharmacies, B2B businesses, nutrition, primary care, and others.

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COVID-19 Lessons Chart a Path to a Better Healthcare System

Accountable Care Doctors

When in-person visits and elective surgeries are paused, the practices’ revenue streams dry up, precipitating serious financial harm. Going forward, does this mean the demise of private practice — a concern within our profession for decades? Relationships between primary care and specialists are now digital.

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Ethical Considerations in SBIRT: Balancing Confidentiality and Duty to Warn

Icanotes

Similarly, some people may only be appropriate for screening and brief interventions with those recommendations offering enough assistance to eliminate the need for follow up care from another provider.(2) Namely, some providers, like those working in primary care, report problems with time and resources. Frederick, R.