Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Primary Care Quality of Care Telemedicine Prevention 251

Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2023

Tech-enabled home healthcare provider Speedoc has tied up with Parkway Shenton, the primary care arm of IHH Healthcare Singapore, to expand care options for patients.

Healthcare 175

Healthcare Primary Care Quality of Care Doctors 175

HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2023

What You Should Know: Audio-only telehealth visits for both primary care and mental health services remained common at safety net clinics in California since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Key findings of the report include: The number of primary care visits increased by 8.5%

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Medicaid Quality of Care Accountability 96

Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Scheduling in-person appointments with primary care providers as frequently as needed for proper monitoring and follow-ups can be a real challenge for patients with chronic conditions," remarked Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence.

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Primary Care Quality of Care Population Health Patient Experience 147

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot Development & Focus Areas The pilot organizations will provide valuable input to shape NCQA’s Virtual Care Accreditation program, the first of its kind, designed to highlight the quality of care delivered through virtual or hybrid modalities by diverse healthcare organizations.

Quality Assurance 97

Quality Assurance Urgent Care Primary Care Quality Improvement 97

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients.

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Primary Care Hospitals Nursing Quality of Care 249

HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

– TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it received FDA clearance for its Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection, paving the way for its rollout in the US.

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Primary Care Quality of Care Patient Experience Healthcare 98

Home Health Care

APRIL 1, 2024

The Clearwater, Florida-based Empath Health provides hospice, home health care, palliative care, grief services, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), adult day services, primary care, physician services and more. It is the parent company of 17 affiliates and two philanthropic foundations.

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Hospice Care Primary Care Quality of Care 67

HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

A caregiver incentive program that increases caregiver productivity and retention while preventing caregiver burnout and improving quality of care for patients. An online occupational health solution that provides primary care health benefits for employees. – Vitable Health. – Remote Focus.

Primary Care 98

Primary Care Medicaid Quality of Care Prevention 98

Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2023

“Expanding access to healthcare: Humana integrated CenterWell home health, pharmacy and primary care services throughout 2021 and 2022, which has allowed the company to lower care costs and increase the value of care,” the company wrote in its report. For Humana, that roughly means 1.3 million beneficiaries.

Primary Care 89

Primary Care Medicare Quality of Care Integration 89

Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

Hospital readmissions are regularly viewed as an indicator of the quality of care patients receive. On average, a hospital’s surrounding area in the study contained over 620 SNF beds, about 25 primary care physicians, 49 nurse practitioners, 19 licensed nursing home beds and about four home health agencies per 100,000 residents.

Hospitals 95

Hospitals Primary Care Nursing Quality of Care 95

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Waymark , a San Francisco, CA-based Medicaid provider enablement company raises $42M in new financing to scale technology-enabled, community-based care for primary care providers and their patients enrolled in Medicaid programs.

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Medicaid Primary Care Quality of Care Hospitals 52

Healthcare Success

JANUARY 2, 2024

By addressing these barriers proactively, healthcare businesses can ensure a seamless transition to telehealth while delivering consistent, high-quality, accessible, and patient-centric care. Amazon Prime members can add this primary care benefit for $9 per month or $99 annually.

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Healthcare Quality of Care Patient Experience Doctors 193

Home Health Care

APRIL 15, 2024

The Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), which would eventually be mandatory if finalized, would have selected acute care hospitals put under full responsibility for the cost – and quality – of care from surgery up until the first 30 days after hospital discharge.

Accountability 63

Accountability Medicare Home Care Quality of Care 63

Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

HRSN Initiatives : In the interest of increasing the accessibility and quality of care to address HRSN, the Demonstration Amendment seeks to improve integration between primary care providers and community-based organizations.

Medicaid 52

Medicaid Primary Care Hospitals Integration 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Health insurer Humana has expanded its partnership with Cohere Health to streamline the prior authorization process for cardiovascular care and surgical specialties. That work spans across the country and has yielded reduced administrative burden, faster turnaround times, and improved quality of care.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality of Care 52

Health Populi

MARCH 18, 2024

Digital platforms for mental health can empower consumers to choose from a wider range of providers with different identities, affirming practices, or treatment approaches—qualities of care that are especially relevant to mental health.” Rock Health polled 8,014 U.S.

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Health Data Primary Care Patient Experience Quality of Care 85

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2023

– The goal of the study, conducted by surveying 10 primary care practices of varying sizes, was to identify specific barriers and innovations required for mainstream adoption of value-based payment (VBP) models and their relationship to physician burnout. .

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Quality of Care Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

These locations are anticipated to resemble CareMax’s current de novo model, which includes primary care physicians, specialists in high demand, such as cardiologists, pulmonologists, radiologists and others, social services, activity centers and other services.

Medicare 95

Medicare Primary Care Quality of Care Accountability 95

Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found. Most older patients who had a telehealth visit perceived the quality of an office visit was higher (56%) and offered better communication opportunity with the clinician (54%).

Primary Care 171

Primary Care Telemedicine Doctors Hospitals 171

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As part of CVS Health, Signify Health will continue to advance its extensive primary care enablement capabilities, including turnkey analytics, network, and practice improvement solutions, to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement and improve quality of care.

Primary Care 98

Primary Care Quality of Care Nursing Healthcare 98

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

"The tablet devices also allow primary care physicians to monitor patients from their home. "Using the Tyto telehealth technology to conduct in-home health visits is an invaluable resource for our Memorial Primary Care team.

Healthcare 214

Healthcare Telemedicine Integration Primary Care 214

Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

My own research shows that there are system-wide effects and that the impact of capitation for primary care physicians on services may depend on whether specialists are also reimbursed via fee-for-service. However, it is not clear how increasing the proportion of reimbursement that is capitated impacts health care service provision.

Medical Services 84

Medical Services General Practice Primary Care Quality of Care 84

Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. Out-of-pocket healthcare costs rank top (for 41% of people), followed by affordable health insurance options (39%), cost of health insurance premiums (36%), cost of hospital care (30%), and cost of prescription drugs (29%).

Urgent Care 118

Urgent Care Healthcare Primary Care Quality of Care 118

Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

Primary care must be supported as the hub of integrated service delivery, with an emphasis on delivering preventive care and coordinating services through the various settings and specializations. Having person-centered metrics versus tracking activity-centered tasks will tell us that we are delivering true quality of care.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Integration Quality of Care Accountability 52

Healthcare ECONOMIST

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Health system characteristics associated with increased rates of low value care include: Fewer primary care physicians, No major teaching hospital A larger share of minority (i.e., non-White) patients Located in South or West Serving areas with more health care spending.

Primary Care 63

Primary Care Quality of Care Hospitals 63

Home Health Care

JANUARY 2, 2024

In a health care system that isn’t always accessible or easy to navigate, we at Devoted Health are profoundly honored to provide each member with the same quality of care and service we’d want for our own families,” Ed Park, co-founder and CEO of Devoted Health, said in a statement.

Medicare 59

Medicare Home Care Primary Care Quality of Care 59

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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?

Private Practices 52

Private Practices Quality of Care Primary Care Healthcare 52

p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists. It consists of.

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Doctors Accountability Healthcare Providers Accountable Care 130

p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists. It consists of.

Doctors 130

Doctors Accountability Healthcare Providers Accountable Care 130

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

. – The report demonstrates, across multiple plans, that placing previously unavailable yet actionable information on quality gaps, HCC (Hierarchical Condition Categories) capture, HRA completion and other initiatives, within the provider’s workflow, is effective in closing more gaps.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Process improvement Quality of Care Medicare 52

Accountable Care Doctors

JUNE 14, 2021

Primary care must be supported as the hub of integrated service delivery, with an emphasis on delivering preventive care and coordinating services through the various settings and specializations. Having person-centered metrics versus tracking activity-centered tasks will tell us that we are delivering true quality of care.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Integration Quality of Care Accountability 52

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. " The article also makes a point to emphasize that the medical workforce in the U.S.

Telemedicine 265

Telemedicine Quality Improvement Healthcare Providers Healthcare 265

Home Health Care

JULY 7, 2023

Home Health Care News recently caught up with Harris to learn more about trends he is seeing in the investment space, his goals for ConcertoCare and his predictions for the future of home-based care delivery. Harris: I’m a primary care physician — I did the med school, business school combo.

Hospitals 80

Hospitals Primary Care Quality of Care Medicaid 80

Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

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. It’s important to note that these reviews aren’t limited to primary care physicians.

Private Practices 246

Private Practices Patient Experience Urgent Care Telemedicine 246

Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“Yes, we know that when we take on risk, we’re putting ourselves in a position that we might end up losing, but we’re creating opportunities so that we can actually move health care at home forward,” Resilient CEO Jackleen Samuel said during a presentation last month at the Home Care 100 conference.

Home Care 78

Home Care Hospice Care Primary Care Hospitals 78

Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

The hospitalists, care navigators and primary care providers worked together to roll out a three-step approach to better understand the impact of having drug costs available to physicians and patients at the point of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

Hospitals 225

Hospitals Medicare Primary Care Quality of Care 225