Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Alex Butler, MD, Chief Product Officer at River Records , and his team started the company after reading a paper by Jake Kantrowitz, MD, PhD, Primary Care Physician & Chief Medical Officer, that led him to ask “Can you build a health care system without notes?”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership. Pair Team expanded into seven more California counties ; the company provides virtual primary care for Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While primary care physicians in the UK have been using e-prescribing technology for quite some time, hospitals in the NHS are still relatively behind, despite having what appears to have relatively mature IT infrastructure otherwise.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Using this data, clinicians could establish connections with individuals in the ER and make sure they had a primary care provider upon discharge. The results were not only fewer ER visits, but more access to care.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

Primary care is complex because of the variety of patients and conditions seen. In this extensive video, Tom Kelly, MD, Founder & CEO, explores many aspects of automating clinical administrative tasks. He lays out the value of automated note-taking in four specific areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

What’s needed is: Data connectivity and interoperability between various systems, such as electronic medical records (EMRs), clinical management platforms and telehealth solutions Transparent access to data by a patient’s entire care team, from primary care doctors to specialists and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

The hospital also was the first to apply the technology in primary care settings and has since expanded deployment to 110 clinicians, or approximately half of our employed providers. The aggregate time savings is substantial when you multiply that by the average of 20 to 30 patients that primary care physicians (PCPs) see each day.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2024

To learn more about the ACP and how to improve collection of them, we sat down with Dr. Brian Yeaman, MD, Primary Care Physician and Healthcare Technologist, and Aaron Bull, VP Strategic Programs at Backline by DrFirst. And yet, far too many patients do not have one.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

Putting enhanced tools like these in the hands of primary care providers will allow them to provide better care sooner and more easily, which will benefit patients enormously. With a major shortfall of physicians anticipated in the next decade, resource allocation – how, when, and where care is delivered – is paramount.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Jack Jeng, MD, Head of Clinical Affairs at Freed, says they started by targeting primary care, but have seen the product used for a wide variety of specialties, notably mental health, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. Their market is small to medium-sized practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The group, comprised of more than 5,000 primary care and specialty physicians, partners with leading health plans, providers, and hospitals, giving members access to healthcare in 12 counties. Since 1984, it has provided consumers access to quality, patient-focused healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

The aptly named Integration Framework covers how to integrate state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) with clinical systems such as EHRs, HIEs, and pharmacy systems in hospital, primary care, and outpatient settings. Eight health systems across five states assisted ONC and CDC in developing the framework. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

3) Concierge primary care will become in much higher demand in 2024 for a certain portion of the market. DPC (direct primary care) has been focused on adults, but will shift to peds because of a willingness to pay. Primary care is now also mental healthcare. The result?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2024

They started with Primary Care and Orthopaedics and they announced that two more specialties are coming. Unique Epic Installs Another interesting announcement was the expansion of Garden Plot. For those not familiar with Garden Plot, it’s an Epic instance for small to medium sized group practices.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

They do not know whether to go see their primary care doctor, visit an urgent care facility or go directly to the hospital ER”, explains Dr. Jeff Johnson, Banner Health’s Vice President of Innovation and Digital Business. We needed to set expectations that the lab will take 45 mins before it is done.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2021

For the 65th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Headlines and Their Signal for the Near Future. There have been a number of big announcements and interesting health IT headlines lately.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To unlock the full potential of care teams, we must have access to actionable, real-time data. Patients are still coming to their doctor’s appointments frustrated that their provider does not have their records from a recent urgent care visit, previous primary care provider, or a specialist.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They now have a fully digital primary care clinic. The front-end is an app that lets patients build a “digital identify” for themselves and get the same services remotely that they get in person. The first offering was a “digital front door” activating a patient, now used by 80% of their patients.

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