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Rise of Retail Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Payers

HIT Consultant

Pharmacies, department stores, convenience stores, and technology companies are all shifting the standard of care toward retail or online centers that provide care at the same place you already shop for household supplies, groceries, or prescriptions.

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Study: Increased Transparency Between Payers and Providers at the Point-of-Care Improves Risk Capture and Quality Measures

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – IllumiCare , a pioneer in point-of-care healthcare information technology , today released a new report detailing how increased data transparency between health plans and providers on care and coding gaps results in higher compliance, process improvement, and positive behavior changes among network providers.

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Better Data for Better Health Among Medicaid Recipients

HIT Consultant

Without insurance, many individuals will choose to not seek preventive medical care to avoid the high cost that is associated with visiting a doctor’s office. Instead, they will flood emergency rooms with urgent illnesses and diseases that could have been easily prevented with treatment or early intervention from a primary care physician.

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Physician Retention & Why It Matters With Douglas Farrago, MD | Ep. 39

Vie Healthcare

I’ve worked for two different hospitals for 15 years up at Maine at one point and then I did the direct primary care. Doug (02:08): This one was important for me to get this book out because I went into direct primary care to have autonomy and an agency back. You’ll see me, I do talks.

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Physician Retention & Why It Matters With Douglas Farrago, MD | Ep. 39

Vie Healthcare

I’ve worked for two different hospitals for 15 years up at Maine at one point and then I did the direct primary care. Doug (02:08): This one was important for me to get this book out because I went into direct primary care to have autonomy and an agency back. You’ll see me, I do talks.

Doctors 52
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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers

HIT Consultant

When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. Emily Goetz, VP of Commercial at Bright.md.

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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Take a visit to your primary care physician, for example. Process Improvement : Improving organizational performance, thereby improving patient outcomes or population health, requires a high level of specificity. Digital twins can be useful in synthesizing this information to provide actionable insights.