Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

With so many of the nation's underserved patients using telehealth services, practitioners and medical organizations must work to understand what these patients need in order to improve the quality of care. In some areas of the country, hospitals and clinics are closing, and people travel long distances to get in-person care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Raymond Gensinger, MD, who is senior vice president and chief medical officer at the consulting firm Tegria , points out the number of medical experts at IT firms has burgeoned over the past decade or so. Normally, clinicians step up by moving to bigger institutions in health care, then by going to Washington and joining the policy wonks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 31, 2023

Recently, the two organizations have been discussing an overarching digital strategy, as well as how healthcare provider organizations need to be working to create a differentiated virtual care experience – a competitive one. I understand The Clinic and Amwell have been discussing an overarching digital and virtual care strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The fitness company CrossFit announced earlier this month that it was launching a new primary care service aimed at providing an individualized approach to health. The company says it will also offer personalized, precision health and preventive medicine in addition to virtual primary care. Amazon Care is one such figure.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– InformedDNA ®, a company that’s revolutionizing the application of genomic insights, announced today its acquisition of gWell Health, a digital health, genomics, and wellness company. For more information, visit www.gwellhealth.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

He noted that many of the startups are helping providers "reduce individual workloads by removing friction in day-to-day processes, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, outsourcing basic tasks to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions and supporting well-being and flexible work arrangements."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. This hospital already had called 150 different places to try and find a tertiary care center to transfer folks to, but to no avail.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

IKS Health’s market leadership in the ambulatory market will be coupled with AQuity’s market leadership in the acute care market to create an entity that enables Clinicians and their Enterprises to deliver better, safer, more efficient care across the continuum of care delivery. Gupta , Founder and CEO at IKS Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

Monogram Health , a value-based specialty provider of in-home evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease, today announced it has closed on $375 million of new funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Amanda Ford, Executive Vice President of Operations at ScribeAmerica For care teams across the nation, provider burnout isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality. The issue plagues every specialty in every state. Unfortunately, this only shifts the burden to another care team member.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

Medication Reconciliation Medication reconciliation continues to be a patient safety risk during transitions in care. Real-time Prescription Benefit High prescription drug prices create affordability challenges for patients and the health care system as a whole. Medication cost is a well-established barrier to medication adherence.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

before, during and after birth and receives support from Health Care Service Corporation, Laerdal Million Lives Fund, BayCare, Parkview Health, University of Chicago Medicine, Organon and Stryker. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. worsened by 40 percent from 2020 to 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2019

In reading the July/August issue of Eating Well magazine this week, I came across this ad which I scanned for you to see yourself: “We believe in food as medicine.” And now, more than ever, through our experts, innovation, and technology, we’re uniquely positioned to bring that vision to life,” the copy read.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This comprehensive study of over 102,000 real-world primary care clinical cases was co-authored by Dan Zeltzer, Princeton University-trained Health Economist from Tel Aviv University, and Jon O Ebbert, M.D., The study’s key findings: Clinicians providing clinical care to real-life patients agreed with the AI-generated diagnoses 84.2%

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When combined, these breadcrumbs tell a rich story of a patient’s health journey and clinical care. Distill stands to significantly expedite xCures’ and their customers’ workflows in curating real-world evidence, ultimately enhancing patient care. Our previous work has given us both deep expertise and humility.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. Health care is far different from most of the other industries they’re used to working in. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, ensuring the highest standards of care and patient safety is a top priority for healthcare organizations. To achieve this, an Independent Review Organization (IRO) plays a crucial role in providing unbiased and expert evaluations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Having a well executed RCM strategy is crucial to keep your organization running because it impacts everything. When done right, revenue integrity management supports the delivery of high-quality care, enabling providers to reinvest in staff, infrastructure, and technology, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

Cancer diagnosis is a complex, multistep process that takes place over time and often involves several specialties. The AHRQ aims to target key points throughout the diagnostic process where there are opportunities to reduce delays and improve care coordination. Most importantly, it can help to improve patient safety and prevent harm.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

healthcare systems and continue transforming the way providers deliver care with its ambient AI assistant. Clinicians have deemed managing the electronic health record (EHR) the biggest stressor in patient care. This investment enables Nabla to boost expansion across U.S. Andrew Lundquist , Chief Medical Officer of the Mankato Clinic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

The study – a collaboration among researchers from Northwest Permanente, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School – examined six years of outpatient care at Kaiser Permanente Northwest, which serves more than 600,000 people in Oregon and Washington. Overall, in-person outpatient visits had increased at 1.5%

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

Modular Buildings for Healthcare For healthcare providers, Fero can build modular buildings that contain: Inpatient rooms Long-term care rooms ICUs (including negative pressure rooms) ORs Outpatient clinics Specialty services like dialysis unites, diagnostic imaging, rehabilitation, etc. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

The JMIR study cited above also found that 76% of physicians believe chatbots cannot effectively care for all of the patients’ needs and 72% are troubled that chatbots cannot display human emotion. So, what are the concerns? Patients often want true provider/staff connection and not just an automated chatbot.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The organization decided it wanted to be able to approach the challenge of meeting patients and families where they are and improving access to care, and telehealth was a tool to do that. "However, as with most large academic centers, each specialty area has different needs and different strengths," he continued. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19. At the time, its portfolio of virtual care was limited to behavioral health and telestroke teams. This team-based care allowed Franciscan to conserve PPE, eliminate possible exposure and provide a collaborative care approach to the patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 24, 2023

Its physician panel consists of more than 3,500 doctors from more than 80 specialties in the U.S., He recognizes ChatGPT and other AI applications as productivity enhancers for both virtual and in-person care providers. will face shortages of 37,800 to 124,000 physicians across all specialties and subspecialties within the next decade.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

CodaMetrix’s innovations in AI technologies and the experienced team of healthtech executives are a couple of key factors that went into our decision to partner with the company to systematically improve the way our health system accounts for patient care in both billing and clinical cycles”, said Chris Scoggins.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

The two organizations have collaborated to launch a new benchmarking study into health-beauty-wellness (HBW) sales, launched this weekend at the GMDC HBW Conference in Orlando. That deal was a sentinel event that has come to impact not only the food/grocery sector but the global ecommerce world in general, and health/care specifically.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. And Americans, as the Jarrard poll shows, are still ready to go when it comes to telehealth.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It’s hard to think of a more universal “specialty” than women’s health. OB/GYN professionals are tasked with optimizing not only women’s well-being but the beginning of human life. can be a dangerous lack of gynecological care. All of this adds up to a lack of access to quality health care – before, during, and after pregnancy.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

Medical Devices for Specialties. The specific medical devices you need may vary depending on the specialties you plan to service with telemedicine. This means you can purchase just what you need to get started and then add additional medical devices later on as your program expands into additional specialties.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. Though other specialists and providers may come and go, it’s the PCP who often becomes the most consistent and trusted healthcare expert in a patient's life. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

The combined assets will – for the first time – empower providers, care teams, and patients with shared clinical and cost information to achieve improved outcomes and patient access. ” For the past five years, UPMC Enterprises and UPMC pharmacy experts have developed and deployed technology to support medication adherence.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The inadequacy of public sector care drives people to increasingly access private services, fueling a growing need for OOP healthcare spend. Given the prevalence of the informal sector in the economy, which some estimates peg at over 60 percent, financial inclusion in Mexico stands at only 36.9

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 27, 2023

As patient retention is a measurement of your ability to keep patients loyal to your healthcare organization, it is important for the bottom line of your practice as well as the longevity and reputation of your service. Throughout the entire care continuum, patients build a positive, negative, or neutral relationship with a practice.

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