Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Given that over the past two years most of my medical visits have been via telemedicine anyway, it’s been natural to begin to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Products ChristianaCare launched Virtual Primary Care , a subscription-based service available to residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Hint Health debuted Hint All-in-One , an EHR, practice management, and patient communications app for direct primary care.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia. About WELL Health Technologies Corp.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

"I am proud to sign this legislation which promotes telehealth services that have become vital during this pandemic, expands access to high-quality, affordable care, takes steps to protect consumers from surprise medical bills, and preserves access to COVID-19 testing and treatment," said Baker in a statement.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The announced noted that M*Modal parent company 3M Health Information Systems, virtual primary care provider Babylon, and ScribeEMR are early adopters of HealthScribe. One culprit is staffing in post-acute care – 87% of nursing homes report moderate to high staffing shortages. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of U.S.

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NiftyHMS

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The patient has booked primary care physician appointments on Whatsapp and gets confirmation quickly. Schedules routine in-person wellness appointment with primary care physician (PCP) in an office. Remote consulting was done via WhatsApp and delivered A1C tests were in advance to send back via mail at home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Patients-as-consumers increasingly expect retail-enchanting service levels from health care – especially as patients pay medical bills increasingly out-of-pocket. Convenience isn’t just a nice-to-have: it has economic ROI.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As patients continue take on financial risk for paying for health care, now as medical bill payers and health consumers, these are the UX-designed experiences for health care people want to frequent (when they choose to access health care services).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Bonus Features for October 29, 2023: 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, plus 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care. Digital engagement vendor Uniguest acquired pCare , a patient engagement company.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

adults had problems paying medical bills, largely delaying care due to cost for a visit or for prescription drugs. In May, only one-half of patients were interested in returning for an office visit with their primary care provider. The first chart here shows that one in four U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Sales Bone & Joint of Albany implemented athenahealth for EHR, medical billing, and patient engagement. Mass General Brigham tapped Concert Health to offer behavioral health services through primary care. Intermountain Health chose ClearSense for data archiving.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Continued consolidation in primary care There will continue to be consolidation in primary care. Optum Care is becoming a model for big companies. Over the last few years, significant private capital has flowed to innovative primary care-led ventures. Ted Shannon, CFO at Strive Health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Several factors underpin the adoption of telehealth in 2019: Consumers’ demand for accessible, lower-cost health care services as people face greater financial responsibility for paying the medical bill (via high-deductible health plans and greater out-of-pocket costs for co-payments).

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, Find Care expanded services for consumers to manage chronic health conditions addressing asthma, COPD, and diabetes. And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

A report published in May this year by the Commonwealth Fund learned that one-half of working-age Americans would not have the money to pay an unexpected $1,000 medical bill within 30 days. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer. The ASCO story is such good news.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the healthcare industry should reduce unnecessary inconveniences – such as extensive travel or wait times – from the healthcare experience.

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ACA Times

MAY 21, 2015

Compared to those with older non-group plans that are not ACA-compliant, enrollees in marketplace plans are less likely to say they are satisfied with their plan’s choice of primary care doctors and hospitals, but somewhat more likely to express satisfaction with their monthly premiums and annual deductibles.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 21, 2020

While most of those individuals expected to receive care within the next three months, about a third said they planned to wait longer or not seek it at all. While the survey didn’t ask people why they were putting off care, there is ample evidence that medical bills can be a powerful deterrent. “We

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Mend

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For those working indirectly with patients (call centers, billing and coding, IT, accounting and HR), remote work became the norm. Yet those working in direct patient care (primary care offices) were still able to leverage technology to deliver care. Conclusion.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In healthcare, patients and health consumers are looking for more convenient, accessible, less-costly health care services in light of their growing health economic awareness. patients are increasingly accepting retail health sites for accessing and receiving care, found in this New England Journal of Medicine study.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

New research from Duke University School of Medicine puts a price tag on collecting medical bills, and it's not cheap. Indeed, the cost of collecting payments for a single primary-care doctor who is affiliated with a big academic medical center is $99,000 a year and represents roughly 1 in 7 dollars collected.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 6, 2022

I had already been working in health literacy a few years when I received a bill for a recent visit to my primary care physician. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are a series of numerical billing codes used to identify medical services and procedures. Wasn’t an annual well visit covered at 100 percent?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transformation is happening, and care management technology is a powerful mechanism, but it alone can’t make this shift, especially for primary care practices and those on the front lines caring for underserved communities with some of the most complex patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ACSI noted in the report that the health plans are transforming as health/care companies, pointing to Humana’s investment in pharmacy and primary care underpinned by technologies and a relationship with Microsoft for digital transformation.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I show this market basket of the four sectors as health consumers look for services — say, vaccinations, primary care, over-the-counter medicines, health and wellness products, fitness and wearable technology — beyond doctors’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and health plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Virtual primary care company 98point6 announced a $20 million investment to scale its new technology offering for ambulatory care. Medical billing analytics startup AESOP Technology raised a $2.95 Funding and M&A Activity: With $2.3 million series pre-A round.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Partnering, too, will be important on the road to digitization in health care across the three industry segments. specialty medicines), and people expect greater levels of retail-enhanced service from health care providers, plans, and pharma companies.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Campbell County Health is a health system with 1,244 employees across its 90-bed acute care hospital, 160-bed skilled nursing facility, inpatient behavioral health unit, ASC, and 14 outpatient primary care and specialty clinics. National Medical Billing Services (St. Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Virtual primary care company 98point6 announced a $20 million investment to scale its new technology offering for ambulatory care. Medical billing analytics startup AESOP Technology raised a $2.95 Funding and M&A Activity: With $2.3 million series pre-A round.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. Some ways to do this are to offer better patient portals, expanded hours, improved access, and clear procedure pricing.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

health care micro-economy and how health costs will crowd out other household spending in 2024 Consumers’ financial health blurs (or sometimes bleeds) into their personae as patients: CivicScience has tracked a direct relationship between peoples’ perceptions of financial health and one’s overall well-being.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 29, 2018

Where we live may pump clean water, have safer schools and access to healthier food at fair prices, staff more primary care physicians and access points like ambulatory health centers, and have a majority of people who shun smoking cigarettes. This whole world is rough, it’s just getting rougher.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The objectives would be to stabilize the insurance premiums in individual health insurance marketplaces, to provide relief and flexibility to employers, to reduce system-wide health care costs across payers (including ending surprise medical bills and eliminating barriers to prescription drug competition), to improve Medicare (eg.,

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