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By-Latinos, For-Latinos Healthcare Startup Zócalo Health Closes $5 Million in Funding to Launch Primary Care Services

Healthcare IT Today

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We said Mariza Hardin, co-founder and Head of Strategy and Operations at Zócalo Health.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

Here, I share research from Avtex’s Omnichannel Healthcare Report which illustrates this point: that “all channels must be part” of healthcare’s strategy going forward. Our clinicians — nurses, physicians and pharmacists — continue to be the most-trusted honest and ethical professions in the overall U.S.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Primary care in particular seems to be suffering, as visit volumes have yet to return to their 2019 levels. Linus Health announced the availability of its brain health platform , which combines cognitive screenings and decision support tools to help detect dementia in its early stages.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

“Digital transformation” is the corporate strategy flavor of the moment across industries, and the health are sector isn’t immune from the trend. As this 13th year of the annual Health 2.0

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

Health Populi

Adopting a strategy of ‘slow medicine’ may be more rewarding in many situations. Alberto Dolara, an Italian cardiologist, wrote in the Italian Heart Journal (translated into English), “In clinical practice, hyperactivity is often unnecessary.

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Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

Healthcare IT Today

Government policy is increasingly focused on incorporating SDoH into all aspects of healthcare delivery, from individual patient care planning to quality measures to population health objectives, as part of the government’s strategy for tackling health disparities.