Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

CMS is now building on its learnings from patient experience measures and incorporating patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) into recent value-based care models. Goldsack says that well-designed inclusion efforts always have an enormous payoff for the insurer, employer, and patients using the digital interventions.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. But retail clinics are no longer, as the paper explains, “an experiment of a few grocery stores… they’re becoming a major force in the U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The companies shared insights in a session on Building Relationships with the Modern Healthcare Consumer l ast week, warning that hospitals are facing economic challenges with implications on how they should engage and interact with patients in the coming months and years. sites for care are in demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

Sean Lynch, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Curebase A major reason why health disparities exist in clinical trials today can be attributed to the burden traditional trial models place on participating patients. These practitioners ensure that all patients, regardless of socioeconomic status, receive the care they need.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Hy-Vee is expanding the definition of “mobile health” through the store’s Health You Mobile RVs, vans that drive into the stores’ communities offering preventive cardiovascular care. If the consumer holds a Kroger Rx Savings Club card, then she gets a discount on products purchased in the pharmacy.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

THINK: cars, comms, and care. Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

To gain peoples’ perspectives on health care at home and chronic disease management, CareMore Health and Aspire Health commissioned a survey among 2,009 U.S. adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

THINK: cars, comms, and care. Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. This is an actual intersection of the Internet of Things for Health — a new riff on mobile health/care, literally!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It is ironic and very concerning to consider, in this context, the latest data on the outflow of health care professionals from the field, accelerating since the emergence of the pandemic in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With Investments from WBA and Evernorth, the Combined Company Will Deliver a Unique and Comprehensive Patient Experience for Optimal Individual and Community Outcomes. VillageMD announced today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD , a leading provider of primary, specialty and urgent care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As part of this rigorous study design, AMA used particular definitions for the seven tools the study gauged: remote monitoring for efficiency, remote monitoring and management for improved care, clinical decision support, patient engagement, tele-visits/virtual visits, point of care/workflow enhancement, and consumer access to clinical data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. It needed to see all of the vitals.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 16, 2018

Historically, people thought of urgent cares as being urgent only and not offering primary care or other services. But now urgent cares are doing that. We’re seeing this shift to more of on-demand care versus urgent care. That makes it tough to identify how many urgent cares are out there.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Navigate the 360° around the room, and you’ll see Audrey’s tablet sitting on a coffee table which has her patient engagement app connecting her to her care team. This whole telehealth option is definitely for me, even post-COVID” she says. Now, let’s visit with Nikita and Daniel.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2022

Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The 2022 Fund report, P rimary Care in High-Income Countries: How the U.S. primary care teams may be a function of underinvestment in certain types of social services.

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Enzyme Health

APRIL 24, 2019

Referencing patients as “consumers” has slowly infiltrated the healthcare industry vocabulary over the last decade. 2019 feels like the tipping point where the notion of “patient experience” is being supplanted by the “consumer experience.” Just think about what it means to be a patient.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Instead of thinking “thermometer” in its original Webster’s Dictionary definition, let your mind consider how Kinsa describes its device: as an early warning system to detect and respond to contagious illness. Kinsa Health began to market the first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer in 2013.

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Health Populi

MAY 31, 2019

People with BMI levels under the obesity definition spend 42% more on direct health care costs than people at a healthy weight. The Deloitte team smartly calls out the rise of obesity with lower growth rates among higher-income consumers versus low-and-middle-income people.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

When things are simple and easy to pay for, patients are happy, the staff is happy, and you are most definitely happy. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves. So how do we improve? How do we make our sculpture be more realistic?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

"Using FCC COVID-19 telehealth funds, we purchased Iron Bow Medview telemedicine units for all 24 rooms to allow staff and providers to complete video calls with the patients using far-end camera control, high-definition video, and high-quality external microphone and speaker.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Estimated Costs of Intervening in Health-Related Social Needs Detected in Primary Care. Due to the huge legacy data sets and complex processes used at registries, adding new fields to their data definitions is difficult, but some registries have started to store data on SDoH. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"In our ambulatory virtual programs, we manage complex chronically ill patients," said Annie Bannister, RN, executive director of vEngagement at Mercy. "For the first time, these patients with complex, chronic illnesses had real-time access to providers ─ something unheard of in their world. '" she continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Patients check in online, which gets everything else in place to run smoothly, such as having the EHR ready, the documentation in the right place, and everything integrated for billing. The new technology has definitely helped to reduce provider stress.” ” Telehealth itself adds stress to the mix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

The Equality Health telehealth system for primary care practices is available for free to primary care practices in the extensive Equality Health network of independent primary care providers. Patients can securely connect online, including in low-bandwidth environments, using their cell phone or computer.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Public perception has not caught up to the reality that the lines between health care companies are so blurred at this point that it is becoming nearly impossible to tell the insurers from the providers from the pharma/medtech manufacturers from the retailers from the tech and data analytics companies. That is not so obvious to us.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“Agency” in its social science definition is the capacity for a person to act independently and make free choices. For a definition of “hope,” I turned to the classed Merriam-Webster dictionary for some context to array with its x-axis partner, agency. To want something to happen or be true.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S.

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2023

Amazon ranked #8 in the top 100, and I’ve carved out a singular N of 1 designation for the company as a “cross-segment” player across the health/care ecosystem. Companies in blue garnered “excellent” RQs, followed by the apple green tone symbolizing “very good” designations in the eyes of U.S.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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