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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. According to HealthGrades , 80% of patients prefer physicians who offer online scheduling. Telephone triage.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. A huge friction point we identified in our data-for-healthcare-good panel wrapping up the day is surprise medical billing due to patients’ unwitting use of out-of-network physicians and providers.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many health systems that permitted the use of consumer technologies such as Zoom and Skype in the interest of expediency during the pandemic are carefully reviewing their platform choices. As one physician put it to me recently, telehealth has to be a seamless platform that replicates the in-person visit experience as much as possible.

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Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

Health Populi

Two key driving forces have turbocharged the fast- first, telehealth and digital therapeutics/new-fangled digital health companies have become part of the distribution channeling of these medicines beyond traditional physician prescribing workflows. who started with the question, “What does Mucinex do?”