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AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To help private-practice physicians manage the operational and business challenges posed by the coronavirus emergency, AMA has put together some new toolkits to help practices stay strong and deliver better care during the fast-evolving coronavirus crisis. On this National Doctors Day , as the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Providing After-Hours Healthcare with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

It’s time to make a decision: do you go to the urgent care clinic a few blocks away? Or do you wait until Monday when you can call your primary care provider (PCP) and then wait a few more days for an appointment? million; approximately $500,000 of those savings went to a managed care Medicare payer.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Hospitals must learn to run like fast-paced private practice ASCs, who benefit from lofty, high-volume facility fees. 3) Concierge primary care will become in much higher demand in 2024 for a certain portion of the market. No longer can a hospital survive doing 2-3 total knee arthroplasties in one operating room.

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Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Doing so creates exciting opportunities for personalized engagement, whole person care, precision medicine, and improved health outcomes. Craig Worland, Chief Development Officer at Southeast Primary Care Partners. This will continue the arms race among non-traditional healthcare providers.

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A startup with a cause – championing the individual in navigating health care

Digital Health Today

As consumers, we struggle with the basics – we wait 29 days to get primary care appointments, we’re faced with higher deductibles and narrower networks, drug prices are increasing at five times the rate of inflation, and health care expenses cause about 2/3rds of U.S. Our first platform is a private and secure iOS app.