Primary Care and Telemedicine - Health Care Quality Digest

Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare It News

MAY 31, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS To identify common facilitators and barriers to telehealth implementation, researchers evaluated practice leaders' perspectives on 32 aspects of telemedicine in their practices, according to a new report published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2024

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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'A quiet suffering': Primary care struggles with COVID-19 strain, telemedicine rollbacks

Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Despite broad bipartisan support for telehealth in Washington, the return of restrictions — even nominal ones — threaten the viability of virtual services offered by cash-strapped primary care offices, a new survey finds.

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Telemedicine will become default, with more virtual treatments, expert says

Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic.

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Telehealth has been key for primary care, but clinicians are still feeling hopeless

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. A survey published by the Larry A.

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Most primary care telehealth visits don't require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows

Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. They also looked at the differences in the rate of in-person follow-up based on a patient’s insurance coverage.

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Primary care reimagined: A virtual front door to healthcare

Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. THE PROBLEM.

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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. The use of telehealth technology can improve healthcare access for Montanans living in rural and tribal communities by providing access to primary care and specialty services.

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Survey: 1 in 3 patients comfortable with AI-led primary care

Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S.

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Why telemedicine must play a central role in solving the specialist shortage

Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

How can virtual specialty care help overcome these challenges? Specialists and primary care providers face competing pressures when trying to help and reach their patients, and are concerned about the ones who don’t come to their appointments as much as they are focused on the ones who do.

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. " PROPOSAL. MARKETPLACE.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Patient outcomes point to efficacy of telehealth and virtual care

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5

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An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Chirichigno to get an inside look at how a national telemedicine platform works, and why bilingual service is so important to the company. Including how you deliver primary and multi-specialty care, and how you work with payers and employers. Please describe how you deliver virtual healthcare.

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The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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First Stop Health Launches Virtual Primary Care for Access to Urgent Care

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2022

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health® (FSH), a virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine and virtual mental health, today announced the availability of Virtual Primary Care for its clients and members throughout the U.S. How FSH Virtual Primary Care Features. ”

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First Stop Health Adds Virtual Primary Care as Whole-Person, Digital-First Service

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members.

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Hint Health Raises $45M To Expand Direct Primary Care (DPC) Network

HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Hint Health , a direct primary care (DPC) provider raises $45M led by Banneker Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures , bringing the company’s total funding amount to $60M. To date, Hint Health is available nationally and powers over 2,400 DPC providers and 1,600 clinical locations across the U.S.

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To Truly Address Behavioral Health Worker Shortages, We Need Telemedicine

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Through telemedicine. After so much care went online during COVID-19, patients of all ages and backgrounds have completed a crash course in virtual care – and they are liking the results. Sidel’s background includes working in clinical environments of behavioral health, primary care and quality improvement.

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Home-Focused Primary Care Company Heal Finding Success Hiring Home Health Nurses

Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2022

Heal is a Los Angeles-based in-home primary care provider that focuses primarily on seniors. There are lots of home health nurses and for whatever reason, they’re more accustomed to this model of care.”. Even though telemedicine works, Zaghi doesn’t believe that it will completely replace in-person care.

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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? Creating “virtual critical care wards” with telemedicine tools. The results have been transformative.

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How Primary Care Startup Patina Locked Down Partnerships With 4 Big Health Plans

Home Health Care

MARCH 30, 2023

With only a couple years under its belt since its launch, Patina Health – a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based home-focused primary care medical practice – has secured partnerships with multiple major health plans. Patina’s work with payers combines care coordination and primary care services for seniors.

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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That is the profound connection between clinicians and patients that contributes to burnout and eroding morale — especially in primary care. Strong primary care backbones for all health citizens. patients had regular sources of primary care in 2023. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S. In the current U.S.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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Toward new telehealth strategies at the HIMSS24 Virtual Care Forum

Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

Panelists will explore the buy versus build dilemma, including the integration of in-house clinicians and external providers, as well as the evolving primary care landscape and infrastructure optimization for virtual care expansion.

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How CrossFit and 23andMe Are Moving from Health to Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. The converging factors are: Primary care. Telehealth. Retail health.

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FirstHealth of the Carolinas solves access problem with Virtual Provider program

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And that is what FirstHealth of the Carolinas has done, using telemedicine technology. "Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. "We took a boots-on-the-ground approach to this communication," Kapa said.

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Telemedicine Platform Offers Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2022

– Alpha Medical, whose services are available in 49 states plus DC and treat over 60 conditions with their virtual PCP offering, continues to fulfill its mission to bring convenient, affordable, and accessible medical care, medications, and resources to its patients. Why It Matters.

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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. The virtual-first primary care was launched in January of 2021 to a ten-county geography in central Pennsylvania.

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Telehealth heavy hitter Dr. Roy Schoenberg on virtual care in 2023

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream.

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Alpha Medical Lands $24M for Women’s Virtual Primary Care Platform

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What You Should Know: – Femtech company Alpha Medical, today announced it has raised $24M in Series B funding to expand its market share in women’s virtual primary care. Alpha Medical recognizes that women’s healthcare needs reshaping to include reproductive health, primary and urgent care, and mental health services.

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How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Booth to discuss the problem with rural and partially rural areas and so few mental healthcare providers, rural patients' concerns with mental health matters and addiction and the role of telemedicine, and the stigma with mental healthcare and how telehealth can help overcome this challenge.

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Telemedicine-Supported Medication-Assisted Treatment Should Remain Available After Pandemic

HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – A staggering 100% of patients believe that telemedicine-supported Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) should remain available even after the pandemic comes to an end, according to new findings from a survey conducted by Bicycle Health. OUD is one of the most urgent health crises of our time, with an estimated 10.1

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company launched mental health and primary care service lines. What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. First we launched primary care.

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The value of integrating in-person and virtual care

Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2022

Some health systems see a need to unify their virtual care capabilities across an integrated platform, telemedicine vendor Teladoc Health observes. What is the state of telemedicine technology at hospitals and health systems today?

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State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce

NASHP

DECEMBER 7, 2022

State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce December 7, 2022 / by Elaine Chhean , Anita Cardwell , Lauren Block (Aurrera Health Group), and Sarah Tocher (Aurrera Health Group). High-quality primary care is foundational to a healthy society and well-functioning health care systems.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.

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To bridge the digital divide, national nonprofit offers free devices and internet

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? Virtual care can be a game-changer for people in rural communities and healthcare deserts. Even in urban centers where there are shortages of specialists.

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New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CVS Health/Aetna, Amazon, and Walmart rank in the next-most competitive group impacting hospitals, followed by new primary care models. The post New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

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. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

“No matter how close the nearest primary care physician office is, if they can’t get out of bed or leave their home, they simply are not going to get care before their conditions worsen,” said Blue Beckham, chief strategy officer at Scottsdale Physician Group. " Blue Beckham, Scottsdale Physician Group.

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A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. "Over the last five years, we built out clinic-to-clinic telemedicine and scheduled direct-to-patient telehealth.

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

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'A quiet suffering': Primary care struggles with COVID-19 strain, telemedicine rollbacks

Telemedicine will become default, with more virtual treatments, expert says

Telehealth has been key for primary care, but clinicians are still feeling hopeless

Most primary care telehealth visits don't require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows

Primary care reimagined: A virtual front door to healthcare

Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Survey: 1 in 3 patients comfortable with AI-led primary care

Why telemedicine must play a central role in solving the specialist shortage

How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Patient outcomes point to efficacy of telehealth and virtual care

An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

First Stop Health Launches Virtual Primary Care for Access to Urgent Care

First Stop Health Adds Virtual Primary Care as Whole-Person, Digital-First Service

Hint Health Raises $45M To Expand Direct Primary Care (DPC) Network

To Truly Address Behavioral Health Worker Shortages, We Need Telemedicine

Home-Focused Primary Care Company Heal Finding Success Hiring Home Health Nurses

Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

How Primary Care Startup Patina Locked Down Partnerships With 4 Big Health Plans

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Toward new telehealth strategies at the HIMSS24 Virtual Care Forum

How CrossFit and 23andMe Are Moving from Health to Primary Care

FirstHealth of the Carolinas solves access problem with Virtual Provider program

Telemedicine Platform Offers Outpatient COVID-19 Treatment

How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Telehealth heavy hitter Dr. Roy Schoenberg on virtual care in 2023

Alpha Medical Lands $24M for Women’s Virtual Primary Care Platform

How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

Telemedicine-Supported Medication-Assisted Treatment Should Remain Available After Pandemic

How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

The value of integrating in-person and virtual care

State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce

Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

To bridge the digital divide, national nonprofit offers free devices and internet

New Primary Care, Retail and Tech Entrants Motivating Hospitals to Grow Consumer Chops

COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

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