Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

WELL Health and OSIS announced this week that they had partnered to provide community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers more seamless access to patient communications technology. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2021

Kaiser Permanente has donated a total of $143,000 to four safety net organizations that aim to expand virtual care to low-income and unhoused communities across Hawaii. According to the organization, Kaiser will award $57,000 each to the Community Clinic of Maui, in Wailuku, and the Honolulu-based Hawai'i Health and Harm Reduction Center.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Quality of life changes dramatically with the compounding effects on mental health; comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, diabetes or obesity; the ability to work; and financial security. It’s clear why these conditions are so costly – both in terms of the impact on people’s lives and the cost to the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2023

It is difficult enough to find access – especially timely access – to needed medical specialists in large urban areas, but it can be next to impossible in rural communities. Virtual care has proven that it can be a big help in connecting patients with the right specialists , and in a timely manner. population.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. "Ask questions such as who has devices?

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. Eric Cheung, a family medicine specialist practicing in Foley, Alabama, who serves as chief of staff for South Baldwin Regional Medical Center and clinic medical director for South Baldwin Medical Group.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Albany Med - Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) in Hudson, New York, is a community hospital and health system serving more than 100,000 residents in Columbia and Greene counties. Patients would look for their symptoms on Google and seek care at other hospitals and health systems in the region that had a stronger digital presence.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. In many ways, virtual care helped define the pandemic. Other examples include virtual care in patients’ homes and assisted living communities.

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

Traditional home-based care companies aren’t the only ones serving seniors, while helping shift care away from brick-and-mortar settings. Adult day, PACE and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) without walls are a few of the care models working to meet the needs of seniors that want to age in place.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Dr. Telita Crosland, Lieutenant General, director of the Defense Health Agency. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 1, 2022

Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Can telemedicine help provide services to address social determinants of health? It enables patients and providers to interact in ways we could have never imagined.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

The pandemic, economy, political unrest, war, and continued uncertainty have taken—and continue to take—a toll on people’s mental health. But first, we must understand what’s happening in healthcare and the world-at-large post-pandemic. How did we get here? Both of which had a dampening effect on mental health and wellness.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

Mercy, a massive health system based in St. Louis, Missouri, has a special patient experience project coinciding with the opening of the Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care. " We interviewed Richert to discuss this project at length so he could share lessons learned.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Engaging patients and communities to take surveys is always a challenging task for provider organizations of all shapes and sizes, regardless of who they serve. But in some communities, gaining population-based insights is critically important, despite the challenges.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2024

Even when organizations do a great job of streamlining internal workflows, each patient still has unique requirements: everything from prior authorizations and drug formulary considerations to home health certifications, identifying insurance-aligned specialists, navigating various portals, and much more. The information overload is real.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

The New York City-based Urban Health Plan used artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and patient care and got a handle on its annually high patient no-show rates with cost-effective patient interventions. The organization needed to change things around to keep health centers open.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

GPW Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Northern Virginia, faced many issues that are common in a community health center setting. "Our online presence needed attention, as well," said David Calderon, COO at GPW Health Center. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Providence health system this week announced the launch of its new Providence National Foundation, which aims to drive philanthropy for technology-driven innovation and clinical research toward whole person care, health equity and more. Vulnerable communities. Health equity. WHY IT MATTERS. " Clinical institutes.

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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. Centers for Disease Control. THE LARGER TREND.

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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.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. Luke's Health System.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In a turbulent environment, a host of ingenious solutions surfaced to help bolster the healthcare system itself. At the same time, healthcare organizations have implemented new workflows and technologies to help them better reach their communities and workers to provide care and keep them safe. Investing in patient-centric care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 27, 2024

Specifically dubbed Habitat Health, Kaiser and Town Hall Ventures will begin building out the program in California in 2025 – in Sacramento and Los Angeles. ” Traditionally, PACE programs care for dual-eligible individuals in communities. “Our The number of people age 85 and older in our country will double by 2040.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2024

A patient sees their primary care physician, who then issues a referral. "How do we care for more patients with the same clinical workforce we have today? How do we meaningfully increase productivity? We interviewed him as part of our series talking with top voices in health IT about artificial intelligence.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Formed in 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, CommonSpirit Health is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. " Dr. Francisco Rhein, CommonSpirit Health. It has more than 1,000 care sites serving 20 million patients in 21 states. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 1, 2023

The survey was conducted by research and consulting giant EY – and it has plenty more to say about the state of healthcare and health IT today. EY gave Healthcare IT News a sneak preview of the survey results in an interview with its global health leader, Aloha McBride. Overall, three value features for health stand out.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A next frontier for home health providers looking to expand their business mix: behavioral health care. Earlier this month, Bayada Home Health Care opened up the Bayada Pennsauken Center for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Services. She has 20 years of behavioral health experience under her belt.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 5, 2023

Brent Lamm is CIO at UNC Health, based in Morrisville, North Carolina. Lamm and peers at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at San Diego are part of a pilot project by electronic health records giant Epic, testing Epic's large language model AI capabilities to enhance the provider experience.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2023

We sat down with him to discuss patient access, how technology can help with care planning for underserved patients and making the business case for medical groups. And Gardner offered an example from his own experience showing how access for the underserved helps enable better outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These patients often come from traditionally underserved populations, including Black and Latinx communities, that disproportionately experience the clinical and economic burdens of diabetes. It can also help cut spending by $9,800 to $14,000 per patient each year.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

Healthcare Analytic Advisor at Merative Health equity helps ensure all individuals have equal access to healthcare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health equity means everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Brandi Hodor, Sr. in 2023 and 5.5%

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fifteen percent of people who play video games are over 55. It turns out that older adults who regularly play video games actually experience a number of health benefits than those who don’t. These activities can help seniors feel more connected and engaged, which can improve their overall well-being.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. There are other aspects of AI applied to health care about which U.S. health care ecosystem.

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