Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

by Medicare Part D, and nearly 10% by Medicaid For Wegovy, 9 in 10 Rx’s were covered by commercial plans, 8% by Medicaid, and only 1% by Medicare Part D, and, Rybelsus prescriptions were covered by commercial payers (58%), 33% by Part D, and just under 9% by Medicaid.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

The use of telehealth visits grew from 4% of older people having ever used virtual platforms by May 2019, to 30% of older patients using telehealth in June 2020. Among these visits, 76% were with a primary care provider, 32% with a specialty care provider, and 18% with a mental health provider, the study found.

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JULY 26, 2022

Iora Health has focused on the Medicare-enrolled population, distinct from ONEM’s target patient market of younger, employed consumers. The deal was announced on 21 July, with Amazon striking the price at about $3.9 bn and MGM Studios for $8.5 To be sure, it’s both.

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MAY 11, 2023

This can help reduce costs and im prove the overall patient experience. For example, if these organizations are incentivized to provide less care to patients in order to save money on insurance costs, this could compromise the quality of care that patients receive.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2023

. “On-demand virtual care services, like 24/7 video chat and easy in-app messaging, are included in the membership at no extra cost. For other services, such as appointments and labs, One Medical accepts health plans from most insurance carriers as well as Medicare,” the pre-reveal explained, a snippet of that site shown here.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Medicare launched a payment system for in-home treatment during the pandemic, and now more than 200 hospitals have been approved by Medicare for the service. offering in-home treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2022

in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline. An increase in patient portal usage.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Although 90% of health systems face turnover rates of greater than 10% for roles in RCM and patient experience, only 25% of executives are looking at AI or workflow improvements to improve efficiency , an Experian Health survey found. That’s down from 34% last year.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2023

The deal builds on an existing partnership between the organizations dating back to 2020 and accelerates Vytalize’s expansion into Medicare Advantage, commercial plans, and Medicaid, as well as multi-specialty care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5%

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Presidential elections to that point, and that the last retiring Baby Boomer enrolls in Medicare that year. Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. In 2030, every Boomer will have been eligible for Medicare.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2022

Among people 50 and over, the doctor’s visit for routine care is the top reason for using virtual care, among 2 in 3 older people. That’s an important behavior change to take into future planning for primary care services targeted to older peoples’ chronic care management and remote health monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

We must add structures that will achieve health equity," said Dr. Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. Other panelists noted that there exist services that necessitate in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care. However, CMS can't do it alone.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Bravo to Essence Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage plan, for offering Oura rings in 2025 to members who want to engage with self-tracking, sharing data, and acting on advice to benefit their health as they age.

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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. There are also impactful benefits for patients and providers. For patients. The integrated care model also saves providers time and money.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This new capital will help extend the company’s market leadership and momentum, by adding partnerships with more provider groups, growing payer coverage, servicing new employer partners, and expanding into Medicare populations beginning in 2025.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

The American Telehealth Association announced its policy priorities for 2024 ; they include making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent before the end of the year and removing the in-person requirement for the remote prescribing of controlled substances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2024

You suggest the device and the at-home care enable lower cost of care and improve patient experience – crucial for value-based care goals. Up to 50% of heart failure patients are undiagnosed, and diagnosis can lag up to 30 months following the initial onset of symptoms. healthcare expenditures by 2030.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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MARCH 12, 2020

For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. That’s Medicare, Australia-style, adopting telehealth in this coronavirus era.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system. Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

> adults have an active Amazon Prime membership (adjacent to One Medical’s primary care services), and that 42% of Americans shop at a Walmart location every week. health care system not seen since the 1968 creation of Medicare, coupled with decreased reimbursement due to health care reform.

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JULY 10, 2020

The most bullish clinicians about providing telehealth visits as an on-going alternative to in-office visits are behavioral/mental health providers and primary care physicians, 93% and 62% of whom expect to provide more telehealth to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years News Brooklyn provider automates patient experience tracking to spot health equity gaps At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health. “Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” ” Software Advice wondered.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Philips learned that throughout our COVID Year of 2020, health care providers often preferred to keep patients at home, some as part of Medicare payment innovations and others moving hospital care to the home as part of evolving clinical protocols and the growing Internet of Things for health – many of which were unveiled at CES 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. " MARKETPLACE.

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MAY 16, 2019

” We see green shoots of the “social de-construction” of the obstacles in the health care landscape now: Medicare Advantage supports social services for older people enrolled in these plans; Kaiser-Permanente is making a “bold move” to channel social determinants of health in collaboration with Unite US; and, Dr.

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JULY 29, 2022

Zocdoc launched a data ecosystem enabled through application programming interfaces to streamline care coordination and referrals between primary care providers and specialists, aiming to provide consumers with a better experience and more convenient care access. For the second year in a row, H-E-B received J.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

According to Karl Ulfers, co-founder and vice president of growth at DUOS , governments offer excellent listings of resources with which care managers and clinicians can address housing, food, transportation, and other SDoH. Like many other vendors, Equality Health is used by primary care providers and others to make value-based care work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. As a result, this program directly addresses access issues that these patients experience.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Ongoing collaboration and innovation are necessary to overcome the challenges in the health industry and ensure that patients have access to the care they need. Patient Experience In the US healthcare system, providing high-quality patient care is a top priority for healthcare leaders.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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