Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Implementing systems that improve effectiveness and efficiency are the top draw here among clinicians, followed by meeting with the doctors to gain an understand of their needs. That is the profound connection between clinicians and patients that contributes to burnout and eroding morale — especially in primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2022

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. "Primary care is resilient but has weakened.

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19 Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Supported by a $2 million grant from Aetna Better Health , the West Virginia Primary Care Association (WVPCA) and 19Labs are partnering to expand healthcare access across West Virginia, benefiting over 570,000 patients, including some of the state's most vulnerable populations.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2021

Before the pandemic, the dominant work-flow for telemedicine was for triage, primary care and pediatrics (think: your child registers a 105-degree fever on a Saturday night and the pediatrician’s office is closed). In the COVID-19 era, clinicians and health systems stood up virtual care across the board as-required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly were shut off from in-person support. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Leveraging telehealth and telemedicine technologies, patients can receive primary care or specialized consultations virtually, regardless of location. In contrast, virtual-first payviders assign dedicated primary care physicians to patients, simultaneously facilitating managing multiple conditions. Why is this important?

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2024

The strategic combination of Marathon Health and Everside Health unites two leaders of the advanced primary care industry, serving a growing base of over 630 clients and operating as Marathon Health as of this announcement. About Marathon Health Marathon Health is a leader in providing advanced primary care in the U.S.

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KevinMD

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Virtual primary care, unlike virtual urgent care, involves doctors who take the time to get to know their patients, creating (and nurturing) trusted doctor-patient relationships. Virtual primary care requires that doctors be consistently available for providing ongoing care to their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

We can weave these market forces together into several mega-trends… Community-based care grows in 2021. The most obvious trend from which CVS Health benefits, as well as is defining, is the growing opportunity for primary care to be delivered in the community and in peoples’ homes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2024

OntarioMD is planning to implement an AI certification process to ensure physicians get AI solutions that can meet their needs at a price that is sustainable. There is the potential for AI to help with the shortage of physicians in primary care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 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. Four in ten older people who had experienced telehealth also said they would be interested in telehealth for mental health care in the future.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2025

Given capacity constraints despite need, the specialty model will have to evolve to support more innovative pathways that one can introduce diagnostics into non-traditional settings – the home, primary care – as well as support for the output of those results by connecting patients with specialists outside of their existing geography.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These initiatives are often outside the realm of direct care and fall into the sphere of social determinants of health. Once a population health initiative is defined, the challenge becomes identifying the right individuals for outreach and personalizing the approach to meet unique patient needs.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

To meet the demand for primary care services, Summer Health rolled out a new on-demand text message service for parents to connect with pediatricians, sleep coaches and lactation experts. Summer Health launched a year ago as a text-based service for parents to get answers to urgent needs from pediatricians.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Angie Wilson, Tribal Health Director at RSTHC while she was attending the 2024 NextGen User Group Meeting (#NextGenUGM24). We wanted to find out more about their use of NextGen’s EHR and how the announcement from CMS will affect how they deliver care.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Walmart recently opened the second health center, in Calhoun GA, where in the words of Bloomberg, a consumer could book a tele-mental health therapy visit for $1 a minute (that’s $60 for the initial intake session of 60 minutes and $45 for subsequent 45-minute therapy meet-ups).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 22, 2024

A new partnership with Amazone One Medical, which offers hybrid virtual and in-person primary care, aims to expand access to high-quality coordinated care in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Clinic said in an announcement Monday. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 11, 2019

The purpose of clinical documentation is to efficiently communicate critical data to peers in a readable fashion while meeting compliance and billing requirements. This documentation should not represent a data dump. Physicians continually increase our dependence on technology as the digital age deluges us with data.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2025

In our panel at CES 2025 brainstorming “Health at Home: Where Health Meets Smart Living,” Dr. Ricky Choi who leads Samsung Health further detailed the company’s experience in connecting health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 9, 2020

" For that reason, "it is the eligible professionals’ and eligible clinicians’ responsibility to make sure they can meet all other aspects of the quality action within the measure specification, including other quality actions that cannot be completed by telehealth." " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably. Healthcare delivery will be omnichannel, featuring digital front doors and new primary care on-ramps. Mortality will be up in the U.S. along with health disparities and inequities.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

health care corresponds to the nation’s tremendous waste baked into the system when it comes to administration, fragmentation and dis-continuity of care, unsafe prescribing regimens, and under-investment in a strong primary care backbone. Our OECD peers generally invest more in primary care access than America does.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

And it’s important to call out that older people typically deal with more chronic (physical) health conditions than younger people do, so the lack of integrating mental with physical health services (especially in primary care) is concerning.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For the last decade, Queen's Health Systems has been building telehealth services to meet these patient needs, beginning with hospital-based telemedicine and building out to direct-to-patient telehealth services. More than 10 years in the making.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Two-thirds of therapists said they have been able to practice self-care, and just over one-half able to maintain a positive work-life balance. However, 41% of therapists felt burned out, with one-third unable to meet the demand for treating their patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital fireside chat, two experts will explore tele-behavioral health's long-term potential – and how it can meet existing challenges in the industry today. The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC launched a virtual-first, full-service primary care clinic offering a complete spectrum of care to patients aged 18 and above.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2021

As Howland and her research team noted, patient self-management via in-home technologies can allow for more timely changes to care and collaborative goal-setting. The in-home monitoring group also had more communications, on average, than the patients who received usual care. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

The website notes that there is a 12-visit maximum under this plan. In the program’s FAQs, one question clearly addresses this, transparently and in layperson’s terms: Q: “Do I need health insurance to use GNC Health?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth has more than 135 locations, more than 700 providers and more than 250,000 attributed lives, so it was imperative that it have a product that could be scaled quickly and easily to meet demand. "During the peak of the pandemic, primary care telehealth visits accounted for more than 50% of our volume."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Primary care providers or convenient care providers. PCP or convenient care providers can also refer patients to OAH, where they are seen the next day, and assure their plan of care is effective and the patient is improving, but also to continue to provide care they may not have otherwise received unless being sent to the ER.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

Note that this report focuses on asynchronous meet-ups, distinguished from other kinds of telehealth services shown in the first graphic. The third chart presents various ranges of satisfaction for patients, primary care providers, and specialists.

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