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Using RPM to manage customized, specialty care between office visits

Healthcare It News

RPM technology extends a practice’s reach with a secondary care team, a part-time business partner to a certain degree. Technology is underutilized in healthcare, including RPM. According to the American College of Physicians , only 24% of practices use RPM technology.

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Reimbursements and EHR integrations are high priorities for RPM, says KLAS report

Healthcare It News

"This digital health tool and secondary care team lessens the pain of staffing shortages to care for current patients and increases the bandwidth of existing resources who then hold the capacity for adding new patients," explained Andrew Zengilowski, CEO and co-founder of CoachCare, an RPM vendor.

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Aetna & Crossover Health Launches Primary Care Health Plan Benefit

HIT Consultant

Aetna Advanced Primary Health provides an interdisciplinary care team which includes primary care, mental health, physical therapy, health coaching, and care navigators who refer into high-value secondary care services.

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Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation – for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike

Health Populi

That report spoke to the importance of connecting the disconnected health care landscape, including primary care, pharmacy, diagnostics, secondary care/hospitals, health technology providers, insurers, and information stewards, among other stakeholders in the fragmented health/care ecosystem.

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How ICBs can provide eye care solutions

Health Care Leader News

Primary eye care should be the NHS’s first point of contact, treatment and discharge for most eye health issues and achieving this – and getting a better primary/secondary care balance – should be part of local strategies and plans. IT connectivity also plays a role.

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Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

Health Care Leader News

The system is good at starting with the problems secondary care is experiencing and trying to build collective priorities around these, but is generally less good at starting with the problems general practice (and to be fair other local providers) are experiencing and working from there.

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

Over time, depending on the politics of health care reform, the safety net and social determinants policies (e.g., Walmart and CVS/health, for example, could bolster the supply side for secondary care beyond primary care and behavioral health, for mobile diagnostic imaging, sophisticated lab testing, and rehab to the home.

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