Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Prescription drugs (and costs) are on the minds of policymakers and legislators as well as prescribers, pharma companies, and payers — employers, government plans, health insurers and, of course, patients who co-pay or c0-share the costs of medicines. In 2024, the average patient share amounts are shown in Figure 9.6

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 29, 2024

Humana's primary care business, CenterWell, has unveiled its latest expansion plans. | The company will open centers in three new metro areas and will add further locations across eight municipalities, Humana announced on Tuesday.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

Primary Care 60

Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 8, 2018

The Humana-Kindred deal, the existing United Health Care conglomerate with insurer and provider services, and other providers under the payor umbrella, are further exemplars of this approach — becoming “ payviders ,” to cite the neologism favored by one of my recent podcast guests.

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Primary Care Pharmaceuticals Accountable Care Health Policy 60

Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2018

Financial health relates to the previous five goals as money-stress can lead to poor eating habits, lack of energy to exercise, interrupted sleep, and of course, anxiety. An additional survey of 400 physicians was conducted, split between 200 primary care providers and 200 specialty physicians.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Humana's senior-focused primary care division is charting a course for further expansion throughout 2025, the company announced Wednesday. Humana's senior-focused primary care division is charting a course for further expansion throughout 2025, the company announced Wednesday.

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Primary Care 80

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I connect the dots of this phenomenon in my book, Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

For instance, the coronavirus response has made clear the value of online and video-consultations in primary care, and we have seen a remarkable expansion of digital platforms. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2 It's not all plain sailing, of course.

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Digital Health Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The release highlighted an expanded partnership with MedStar Health that’ll make Suki Assistant available to thousands of clinicians across specialties including primary care, cardiology, and gastroenterology. The post Maven Clinic, Suki, Glooko Start Q4 in Style appeared first on Digital Health Wire.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Furthermore, let’s get real about health care costs, which of course, is a Health Populi /THINK-Health modus vivendi. The average cost of an ambulatory care visit is now nearly $500 , and an inpatient stay, about $22,000. Self-care is the new black, as I have written and proselytized.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Led by researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study found that 2,656 unique providers conducted 144,940 video visits with 115,789 unique patients over the course of six weeks. Over time, more patients pursued nonurgent care such as hypertension or diabetes treatment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

"All stakeholders have a critical role to play in making accessible and equitable treatment that addresses peoples’ behavioral and physical health needs a more standard practice within primary care," read the report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

But the only way to deliver more targeted care is to have a better understanding of the patient prior to treatment through proper screening, and to assess patient progress throughout the entire course of treatment to adjust treatment as needed. How will the conversation about telehealth in behavioral health evolve this year?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. In the U.S., Because they are public goods, and the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Over the course of three weeks in March 2020, the virtual healthcare team trained more than 400 primary care, specialty care and therapy services providers, as well as 800 support staff, on how to use Zipnosis for virtual health encounters. " Sean J. Britton, United Health Services Hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2019

“The result is nationally high rates for utilization of high-expense ‘place of service’ for acute, low-intermediate acuity care,” he said. Texas continues to be ranked near the bottom nationwide in ratio of primary care physicians to population.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

This was well before the pandemic, of course. At that time, six years ago — one in two people said that experience should feel like Amazon, and another 1 in 5 said the best retail store experience (THINK: Nordstrom, REI, name your fave retailer).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

In a discussion with Healthcare IT News , Fobare spells out the role telemedicine has grown to play during the pandemic, where healthcare goes with telehealth, how change may affect physicians and what virtual care might look like 10 years from now. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2024

consumer’s current ethos on trusted companies helping people risk-manage daily living — and of course, find joy and satisfaction as well. In the top 15, we find self-care for health and well-being in many brands and products: we can call out Band-Aid, Dove, Colgate, Kleenex, and Tylenol.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How are hospitals and primary care physicians expanding access to mental health and addressing the burden they're experiencing from the mental health crisis through telepsychiatry? visit either in an emergency room or their primary care provider, rather than a psychiatrist.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

Our quarterback is our primary care physician, but increasingly, they’re burdened under time and workflow pressure. AI isn’t Just the Answer, it is the ONLY Answer There is a clear need to correct course and bring elements of those early healer-patient relationships back to the exam room.

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HAY on FHIR

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are 15 tracks, a number of which are for local initiatives (like the Primary Care track or ePrescribing track ) as well as the more general ones, so there’s plenty of choice for attendees. The Shorthand standard will (of course) be open source and published as an IG – there’s already a draft available to view.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

A physician leader at a renowned medical group confided in me that he receives multiple personal text messages every week from friends and family asking for his advice on medical issues and courses of treatment. Healthcare providers need to enable this type of digital-first interaction and care navigation in their telehealth platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

” Telemedicine is being used extensively in the “forward triage” of patients long before they arrive in the primary care clinics, said Dr. Siaw Tung Yeng, founder and CEO of MaNaDr, a telemedicine technology and services company. Minimizing risk to healthcare workers.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Public Health Primary Care 218

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care. It’s easy to ignore these alerts when pressed for time.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It’s of course a great validation of the value of the 3G Doctor service that we launched in 2006 that Amazon have put a similar service at the heart of their new Amazon Care service for employees in the Seattle area.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

People are looking to engage in health across the many industries they regularly touch in the normal course of daily living, from financial services and food to brewing/spirits and automotive. The goods will have to deliver more “good” to the buyer, including health and wellness benefits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

CSC can better explain, educate and inform patients on the course of previously ordered procedures and treatments – whether administered in the hospital ER or a specialty practice visit. “A patient came to me with a directive from an ER physician to see me, her primary care physician.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 12, 2021

Streaming video fast-grew, with Disney+ hitting 50 million subscribers in five months (of course, it didn’t hurt that the program launched with Hamilton !). Remote learning pivoted 250 million students to move to online learning over 2 weeks, and. Increase in virtual telemedicine appointments increased ten times in 15 days.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Specialty care deserts, which are areas of the country where specialists are just not available, make it difficult to schedule an appointment with the right physician for a single opinion, let alone a second opinion. The study considered a total sample of 417 cases recorded by the clinic over the course of Q2 and Q3 in 2020.

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