Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 14, 2020

Also, patients had a continued need to reach out to their primary care physicians to get questions answered about COVID-19. Next, as part of a health system that previously has delivered more than 4.9 Bluestream Health, the health system noted, never tried to change MedStar workflows.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Integrated care acknowledges that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and makes high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. The integrated care model also saves providers time and money. The integrated care model takes things a step further, circles back and asks, “How did that go?”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Note that Albertsons bought Plated, the subscription meal kit company, in 2017. “As long as we talk about controlling costs in a system whose larger ecology produces diseases we want to treat, we won’t get too far” without supported people in self-care, Dr. Smith asserted.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated mental health services acknowledge that mental health and physical health don’t exist in silos and make high-quality care a reality for patients across the country. Additionally, it can also increase patient satisfaction in various primary care settings, including rural and urban communities.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 3, 2019

Knowing more about who your patients are and what they’re looking for in their medical practitioners is important for any doctor or nurse to know, but it’s especially important in a field like telemedicine. This is also common with other medical claim lines, like urgent care centers and retail clinics.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. Telehealth in 2019. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Is care well- coordinated, particularly when there are multiple providers and in pre- and post-operative situations that involve teams of clinicians: primary care, specialists, nurse practitioners, Fellows, etc. My recent experience at MGH represents care coordination at its best.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That’s according to a number of recent reports focused on telehealth research within a few specific areas of telehealth implementation — one of them focused on primary care and mental health, the other on exploring the application of telehealth and remote care technology within skilled nursing facilities.

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Students will be able to access concussion assessment, behavioral counseling, and primary care services through these various programs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 15% of high school students experienced one or more concussions in 2017, and 6% experienced two or more.

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care innovations

JUNE 27, 2018

Evans is speaking of the VA’s efforts to integrate new technologies into its operations, which have been rapidly accelerating since the 2017 announcement of a far-reaching series of telehealth expansions in 2017 designed to offset the agency’s highly publicized difficulties in staffing and skyrocketing patient wait times.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In 2012, they represented 2 percent of all primary care visits, and they are currently key catalysts of the broad move toward value-based care. These clinics are typically open on weekends, well-integrated with provider mobile/web apps for easy scheduling and staffed by nurse practitioners.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Fetter retired as chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017. The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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HIStalk Weekender

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Seattle-based 98point6 raises $50 million to expand its chat-powered “virtual primary care” unlimited service. A report blames Cerner for May 2017 outages at seven Queensland Health hospitals, refuting the Australian health system’s initial claim that the downtime was caused by ransomware. Monday Morning Update 10/29/18.

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Digital Health Today

AUGUST 7, 2019

The tipping point of the rise of DTx was Pear Therapeutics becoming the first Prescription Therapeutic Solution to receive clearance from FDA for reSET in September 2017. It’s also important to differentiate between primary care physicians, specialists and nurses and to define the messages specifically for each group.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

The Pew Research Center reports that in 2017, 67 percent of people with incomes of $30K or less had a smartphone, indicating that most Medicaid patients have a way to complete a telemedicine visit. Medicaid is the largest payer for mental health services in the United States. Delegate Medicaid patients with low-acuity issues.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services in RHCs and FQHCs Since January 1, 2016, Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) have been able to bill for CCM services, which have become increasingly important for healthcare providers in 2024 as chronic disease prevalence rises.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, connecting electronic health records (EHR) and wearables benefits primary care and chronic care patients. It provides up-to-date and quick access to complete information about patient health and helps medical practitioners reduce medical errors and provide safer care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Here's an interesting one: This story actually dates from way back in the pre-pandemic past of 2017. The effect of the COVID-19 epidemic on health and care – is this a portent of the 'new normal'?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A 2017-2021 study found the left without being seen (LWBS) data doubled from almost 1.1% There appears to be some cognitive dissonance in this example, especially as access for specialists and primary care is hard to come by. to 2.1%, and among the worst performing hospitals, LWBS was a staggering 10%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This included human resources, credentialing, billing, medical, support and scheduling staff, and clinical, nursing, IT, and quality team representation. “This allowed us to set up specific medical assistant/nursing staff alerts based on specific provider appointments.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

Healthcare is complicated, President Trump recognized in late February 2017, just a few weeks after the POTUS took his seat in the Oval Office. The complications of healthcare are, today, the opportunities to develop innovations and novel on-ramps for health care. Third, Walmart filed a patent with the U.S.

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HIStalk Weekender

APRIL 26, 2019

HHS announces CMS Primary Cares, two value-based care payment models launching in 2020 that it says will cover at least 25% of Medicare beneficiaries and providers. A former pediatric resident who was fired by UK Hospital (KY) in 2017 for possessing child pornography on his work computer is charged with that crime.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. The average number of plans a beneficiary has access to this year will be 28, up by a whopping 50% from 2017.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

At Riverside Health System, a rural health network in Newport News, Virginia, a long-term telebehavioral health initiative has improved coordinated care among psychiatrists and clinical social workers, as well as replaced a chunk of services offered at the system’s nursing homes. Doubling down on digital. hospital on average.

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