Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

His LinkedIn describes the role as the "founding medical director of the medical practice for Amazon Care." " As Christina Farr explained for CNBC in February 2020, Amazon Care's "care providers, including the physicians and nurses, are technically employed by a separate subsidiary called Oasis Medical.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

SIP provides incentives for TRU Community Care facilities to provide interim care for patients who have historically high hospital utilization rates. The goal of SIP is to deliver intensive care coordination for patients to connect them with a primary care physician. " MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It has infused A$114 million ($88 million) more funding for this purpose under the 2021-22 Budget. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system. The latest telehealth budget is part of a A$308.6 It includes the following: A$58.8

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions. Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Unpacking Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure Needs. In addition, claims denials saw a 2x increase from 2020 to 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

times longer with a patient in the home than providers spend in the average primary care office visit. Notably, since acquiring Caravan Health in March 2022 , Signify Health has further expanded its focus on value-based care and population health. In 2022, Signify Health’s clinicians expect to connect with nearly 2.5

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2023

Moreover, they are essential for billing and receiving reimbursement for patient care from insurance providers. However, EHRs have also produced a generation of doctors, nurses, and others who have had to become both caregiver and data-entry clerk. We determined that providers saved an average of 5.1 minutes per patient encounter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Array Behavioral Care has been at telepsychiatry for 20 years, with a large base of virtual psychiatrists. How are hospitals and primary care physicians expanding access to mental health and addressing the burden they're experiencing from the mental health crisis through telepsychiatry? Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

"Lack of care opportunities due to transportation, limited primary care locations and inadequate income opportunities can send many patients running to the emergency department. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

" Another problem Baptist Health was facing was non-traditional players such as Amazon, Walmart and Google entering the healthcare industry, along with dedicated national telemedicine companies such as Amwell, LiveHealth and others. "We use our nurse triage call center to recommend virtual options whenever clinically appropriate.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. Just 23% of consumers completely trust the healthcare industry, according to Salesforce. Below is what they had to share on this topic!

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

” HealthSnap is hiring for nurse care navigator positions, clinical operations managers, and patient enrollment specialists. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit worth more than $224.5

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

billion raised in the first half of 2021 across 372 deals. “To The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. " PROPOSAL Knowing it couldn’t simply keep hiring more one-to-one sitters, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

In this seventh installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature series, Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era, four top IT executives from provider organizations nationwide share what they've learned during the past year and discuss how they're applying these lessons to improve their organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Specialty care deserts, which are areas of the country where specialists are just not available, make it difficult to schedule an appointment with the right physician for a single opinion, let alone a second opinion. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. How has access improved patient outcomes by overall numbers?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Healthcare IT News sat down with him to discuss telemedicine and the results of his firm's study. What did your survey find about which services were used via telemedicine and what the virtual care picture looks like? A 2017-2021 study found the left without being seen (LWBS) data doubled from almost 1.1%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

For 40 years, NFP’s model was solely a face-to-face model of integrated care – primary care, behavioral health, dental, midwifery and pharmacy – that included meeting social needs, transportation barriers and access to care roadblocks. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

"Rather, our patients, physicians and nurses have grown accustomed to digital health over years of incremental and foundational work, and all came rushing to make this the new normal." "2021 will show that digital health from the patient and clinician perspective is so much more than video visits and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

—the leading independent home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers. In WBA’s fiscal year 2021, CareCentrix delivered pro forma sales of $1.5 More company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com. About CareCentrix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A report from the American Association of Medical Colleges in 2021 showed only about 1.5% Another study published in 2021 analyzed the geographic distribution of neurologists actively billing in Medicare and compared this to the geographic distribution of Medicare beneficiaries with neurologic disease. are neurologists.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Workforce. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability. Healthcare Consumerism. John and Colin’s 2023 Healthcare IT Predictions.

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