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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care.

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RPM reduces 30-day readmission rates by 50% at Lee Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He is scheduled to speak at the HIMSS24 Global Conference & Exhibition in a session entitled "Digital Care at Home That Improves Clinical and Patient Outcomes." " This new payment modality has fueled RPM adoption and incorporation into various aspects of care.

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Home Is Where the Health Is, CareMore Health (And Most People) Believe

Health Populi

“All healthcare is social,” Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO and President of CareMore Health, wrote about the latter in Forbes in April 2018 — and his essay is worth reading if you missed it the first time around. And so the modern house call enables more social care, the CareMore model shows us.

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Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. “What is just as exciting for us, however, is the patient experience,” he stressed.

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RCM: Fixing the Old and Adjusting to the New

Healthcare IT Today

Huntley McNabb, Vice President at Nordis Technologies Revenue cycle management communications can play a key role in rebuilding patient trust in healthcare, which fell sharply during the pandemic. Physician-to-physician consultations – or eConsults – enable primary care physicians to quickly treat lower acuity issues themselves.

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Kroger Health Thinks Food is Medicine – Nutrition at the Grocery Store Via FMI’s Insights

Health Populi

Kroger also employees 23,000 health care professionals employed in about 3,000 pharmacies in the chain. In fact, Kroger Health is the umbrella under which all of the food chain’s health and wellness assets fit: Kroger struck a deal with GoodRx in December 2018 to expand its prescription drug discount program.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

Pairing clinicians with patients requires tremendous amounts of time and planning, and doing this task manually only complicates the matter. . The process begins when a patient is referred to a specialist home health provider by his or her primary care physician.