Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. It’s amazing to think that PCPs are being notified about their patients so that they can ensure quality continuity of care. It’s easy to ignore these alerts when pressed for time.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. The clinical expectation is that the primary care physician can break the news more carefully or provide a more complete explanation. For example, a lab result that clearly indicates cancer.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Insurance company reviewers and primary care providers may initiate P2P calls based on their employer guidelines. Providers ask to speak with insurer as part of a prior authorization requirement asking for approval for care, like length of stay, prescriptions, level of care, and other options. A Bad Reputation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

In the UK “remote care and telemedicine had to rapidly jumpstart, and many nurses with little experience of telehealth have had to adapt and learn quickly in the last month,” Gregory said and added that the long-term digital agenda had suddenly been implemented due to investment and urgent need.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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MeMD

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Virtual Primary Care Leads to Better Health. In this case, regular preventive and primary care services – like annual wellness visits, vaccines, screenings and labs – are directly linked to better health outcomes and lower costs. As the Benjamin Franklin saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The researchers note that a number of factors may have contributed to the findings, such as patients not having access to a usual source of care (such as a primary care physician) or being sicker. In areas with broadband availability, telehealth is still not always an option.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

Sanvis Health Care Hero. Sanvis Health announced today the release of CareHero™ , a cloud-based virtual care offering tailored for the exceptional challenges that senior living communities are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , computers, internet and social networking.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In fact, in April, 43% of primary care visits for Medicare patients were through telehealth. This is the 5 th blog post in the series about The Future of Remote Care Technology and Older Adults 2020, a research report to be published later in Q4 2020]. . The total of 34.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | June 09, 2023 News AI-powered scribe tool enables more patients, less burnout Dr. Kendell Cannon describes how her primary care practice sifted through the hype of artificial.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. Region Tag: Global Edition. Telehealth could be particularly helpful for the many people in the United States without paid sick time or good transportation options.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 05, 2023 News OSF Healthcare using predictive AI to streamline care navigator workloads Deploying the model with EHR data could help address cancer patient navigator burnout. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement The process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

The hospital sector has been interesting as it has also had to adopt telehealth at an alarming rate, perhaps not with the same agility as primary care, but adoption has taken place. Region Tag: Europe/UK Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19: a technologist’s tale Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CareHeroTM helps community operators of Assisted Living, Independent Living and Memory Care facilities navigate the multitude of primary care and. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health. specialty physicians that their residents rely on to manage their chronic conditions.” Learn more. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“The search tool may always be a work in progress because we manually add each publication—we read every paper before including it, to ensure its scientific validity, its relevance, and proper tagging. 10/30/20: How to write an open note for patients: 2020 edition with U of Colorado’s legendary primary care physician CT Lin.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

After announcing the launch of its Amazon Care service for virtual primary care and home care for all 50 states in May, Amazon revealed that it would need to hire " thousands of employees " to scale the service. Region Tag: Global Edition. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Telehealth has made a huge difference in delivering appropriate care to patients since the beginning of the pandemic. What do you think will happen with telemedicine in 2022?

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

Originally based on the principle that secure, mobile, social-media-like technology could improve team working and patient care, Careflow™ is now used by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across NHS Acute, Community and Primary Care and is currently contracted across 18 NHS Trusts and counting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Clinicians and healthcare organizations rose to the challenge, though, in being open to and adopting virtual care while ensuring that patients could still access in-person care when needed.” "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. Technology + Primary Care. Marcotte and the team at Lotus are bringing a Direct Primary Care approach to Canada – creating primary care practices that emphasize patient AND physician experience.

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American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

As a patient of Franciscan Health System’s primary care clinic in Port Orchard, Soderberg learned about an alternative option: virtual urgent care, at the cost of $35. Today, virtual care is being embraced by hospitals and primary-care practices alike.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Utilizing a secure network, Geisinger is able to provide primary care and access to a wide array of specialties while practicing social distancing. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation Featured Decision Content:

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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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Lloyd Price

JULY 30, 2018

In January, a single therapy to treat a rare form of blindness received a price tag of $850,000. Here are a few examples of companies that Yeshwant and I would put in each category. Who's left out?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you look at another area, I'll say that in the Primary360 area, launching a virtual option for a primary care visit is just the beginning. So how do we use technology to bridge the gap? And then the third part is logistical science. This is a hard problem. So those are a couple.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 20, 2023

The influential Democrat's legislation is slated for committee markup next week, but is already being speared by Republicans for its price tag and hospitals for measures requiring site-neutral payments. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Sen. |

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