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Elation Health and Surescripts® Partnership Supports Patient-Specific Prescription Cost Transparency for Primary Care Clinicians at Point of Care

Digital Health Global

Prescription drug costs are one of the most significant barriers keeping patients from starting and adhering to a medication. Clinicians understand that medication cost transparency and access can help strengthen the patient-physician relationship. Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer for Surescripts.

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1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools, Outlook Is Cautiously Optimistic, Finds Elation Health Survey

Digital Health Global

AI scribe tools use speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and transcribe conversations between a physician and a patient during clinical encounters. This survey was conducted from 229 independent primary care clinicians who are current Elation Health customers.

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Value-based Care is Less Than 15% of Practice Revenues

Healthcare IT Today

in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline. An increase in patient portal usage.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

And loneliness can kill us, we learned, from the study Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review , seminal research published in 2010 led by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and collaborators from Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina.

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OpenNotes site upgrades its literature search, to help authors and educators find relevant papers

Society for Participatory Medicine

Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?” ” Not surprisingly, this site has often blogged about OpenNotes , starting with the initial research study from 2010-2012 that proved the world doesn’t end when patients see their notes.

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12 Ways Telehealth is Saving Small Hospitals

GlobalMed

As community hubs of healthcare, they are tasked with delivering expert medical care across emergency departments, outpatient practices, surgical suites, labs, radiology departments, intensive care units and more. But consider that they’re also asked to: Provide an exceptional patient experience. Lower healthcare costs.

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

Many Patients will uncover problems and have concerns about the Health Records and helping understand and rectify these issues will not be served well by the 2,000 year old office visit only model. “Apple today introduced a significant update to the Health app with the iOS 11.3 mHealth Insights. In this talk I gave at Doctors 2.0

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