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Digital Maturity Assessment expands into primary care for 2024

DigitalHealth

NHS England have confirmed that the 2024 Digital Maturity Assessment is an evolution of last year’s survey and includes an expansion into primary care.

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Accurx launches five-point plan for modern general practice access

DigitalHealth

Accurx, the communications platform powering 98% of GP practices, announces today a commitment to help 1,000 GP surgeries tackle the 8am rush.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. 34% used telehealth for preventive care.

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Australia working towards 'permanent' telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

million) for the Workforce Incentive Programme which will provide additional funding to general practices by adding telehealth items in the calculation of Standard Whole Patient Equivalent. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system. The telehealth investment includes A$31.8 million ($22.8

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Contractors signed for NSW Health's network infra upgrade and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

North Queensland GPs leverage AI for MyMedicare registrations General practices under the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network have adopted AI technology to boost voluntary patient registrations to MyMedicare.

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Evaluation finds Accurx Self-Book could save £123m for primary care

DigitalHealth

Accurx Self-Book, which helps GPs schedule and book appointments could save £123.1 million over five years if scaled up nationally, an evaluation found.

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Primary care physicians could take $15 billion hit due to COVID-19 in 2020

Henry Kotula

Dive Brief: The financial impact on primary care practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been profound and will likely continue in the months ahead, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. That’s a steep enough loss to threaten the financial viability of many practices.