Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

or health care for a family of four. Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. Outpatient care, comprising $1,876. Note that over one-half of spending goes to hospital for inpatient and outpatient services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

MaineGeneral Health in Augusta had high, rising readmission rates for congestive heart failure. In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. Laura Mrazik, MaineGeneral Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. In addition, new challenges included providing care to COVID-19 patients, preserving personal protective equipment and protecting the healthcare team's own health.

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are many barriers that can keep people from getting the mental health care they need. Thankfully, organizations like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to drive new initiatives to mitigate this barrier and help more people get the care they need. One of these key barriers is access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. Health disparities from the digital divide. However, prior to the pandemic, there were many barriers to in-person care. Barriers to in-person care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2020

These responses have included ramping up support for telehealth services to minimize in-person contact in both inpatient and outpatient care. healthcare organizations, researchers noted the advantages and limitations of a variety of telehealth platforms during multiple phases of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. healthcare system,” asserts the thesis of Retailers in healthcare: A catalyst for provider evolution. “Why are big retailers jumping into healthcare? One-half of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2021

A few years ago, Tanner Health System, based in Carrollton, Georgia, recognized that as it moved from uncoordinated, volume-based delivery of health services to an integrated, patient-centric, value-based model, the healthcare industry's future will hinge on its ability to achieve higher-quality care, improved patient outcomes and lower costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) , a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap , one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2024

million people have a serious mental illness , making behavioral health treatment critical. Building a financially sustainable behavioral health program at scale can help these patients get quality care and reduce the total spend on their medical conditions (for both the patients and the health systems providing treatment).

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Iris Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Achieving value-based care for your health system can lead to higher-quality patient care, increase provider satisfaction, and facilitate economic benefits for all. But how can your health system achieve these benefits?

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care. equipment and hardware).

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition to expanding the successful partnership between the two organizations, the medical center will also implement Paragon® Ambulatory Care EHR, as well as Microsoft Azure hosting and several other Altera solutions. In May 2022, Altera joined N. Constellation Software Inc. is Harris’ parent company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

Telepsychiatry is a great way to improve access to care for your patients, but how do you know if it would be a good fit for your health system? If you’re looking to integrate a virtual behavioral health solution into your organization, keep reading to learn what you need to know to make an informed decision.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What happens to a health care ecosystem when the volume of patients and revenues they generate decline? How would that further impact the micro-economy of health care? A report from Trilliant on the 2022 Trends Shaping the Health Economy helps to inform our response to that question. health economy. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For more than a century, Centura Health, based in Centennial, Colorado, has strived to define whole person care. The organization says it improves lives and strengthens communities by honoring the mind, body and spirit in equal measure. Centura Health was awarded just over $997,000 in grant funds from the FCC for telemedicine.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

and even in a lot of urban areas, there’s a significant lack of access to psychiatry or behavioral health services in general. Partially due to the ongoing (and worsening) psychiatry shortage , many healthcare organizations find it difficult to locate high-quality, local behavioral health providers to serve their communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Safeguarding revenues in the coming year requires healthcare systems to proactively navigate an evolving landscape with cross-functional collaboration, technological innovation, and increased AI investments. healthcare organizations.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

Postal Service, there’s always the automobile — which, in the U.S., interstate system; and the role that cars have played in the U.S. In the COVID-19 era, drive-through and drive-up curbside service have become important go-to tactics for dealing with everyday life outside of urban centers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

Health care cost trend will spike up another percentage point to 7.0% in 2024, according to the annual report from the PwC Health Research Institute, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2024. We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S., We’ve reached a new phase in health care in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery ? The following is what they had to share.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. So to give us some comfort in our collective foxhole, my last post for this week of immersion in #HIMSS21 is based on the keynote speech of Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The virtual nursing program is the latest step in a series of digital health innovation programs at Mary Washington Healthcare.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2023

Ensuring patients with a mental health diagnosis get the best short-term care possible after their hospital visit is essential. In fact, clinical best practices and various guidelines recommend that 100% of patients leaving the ED with a behavioral health diagnosis should receive follow-up within the first seven days.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the immediate challenge for Baltimore-based Kennedy Krieger Institute was shifting an almost-100% on-site outpatient workforce to an almost entirely remote one. Its hospital has remained open, serving inpatients throughout the pandemic.). THE PROBLEM. " Jennifer L.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

THE PROBLEM Patient access is a top priority for AdventHealth, a health system based in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

The expansion of remote pharmacy services strengthens Avel eCare’s portfolio of telemedicine offerings and helps meet the growing demand for pharmacy telemedicine services across the United States. An important aspect of our acute telemedicine services resides with our unique pharmacy services. With a team of U.S.-based,

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David Chou

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

There has been a recent trend of hospitals outsourcing often-unprofitable outpatient services for their poorest patients. This is done by establishing independent, nonprofit organizations to provide primary care. Additionally, these clinics allow hospitals to obtain prescription drugs at deep discounts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it presented Portland, Oregon-based Legacy Health with a multitude of staffing challenges where clinicians and staff were unable to come to work safely in the hospitals and clinics. The health system had been using vendor Teladoc for its inpatient telemedicine platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the primary provider of inpatient behavioral health services in the Central Alabama region, Baptist Health is depended upon by its community at large to provide high-quality and continuous care without interruption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots. Accessible healthcare and health education.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. " said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Hospitals and health systems have gone from dozens to thousands of telehealth visits per week. In this Healthcare IT News special report, telemedicine technology experts from Amwell, Caregility, Eko and emocha Health offer readers their decades of expertise in the form of best practices for optimizing the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. This hospital already had called 150 different places to try and find a tertiary care center to transfer folks to, but to no avail.

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