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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways.

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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As such, patients living in communities with greater healthcare disparities often present with more advanced disease or with higher acuity illness. having access to this technology and the necessary proficiency does not always translate to using that technology for healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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How telehealth is starting to reshape primary care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those." At HIMSS20, he will offer some up-close perspective, best practices and lessons learned from the health system's efforts to rethink primary care delivery for the 21st Century. " It's scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, from 3-4 p.m.

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. Those were the two largest stakeholder groups. MARKETPLACE.

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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. “It is precisely these patients who are consuming the healthcare dollar at an increasing rate. THE PROBLEM.

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Aledade Secures $260 Million Series F Financing Round to Expand and Enhance Services for its Nationwide Network of Primary Care Practices

Healthcare IT Today

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Suki partners with Amwell on telehealth AI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dr. Elizabeth Goff, a family medicine physician at CVFP Medical Group, a physician-owned, primary care organization based in Lynchburg, said in a statement that the use of ambient voice AI earned her back "countless hours." Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy: