Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The general idea behind the acquisition is also the title of its snazzy investor presentation : Creating the Premier Medicare Value-Based Care Platform. Oak Street Health employs 600 primary care physicians across 169 clinics. It focuses on capitated primary care for Medicare Advantage and Medicare (59k at-risk patients).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety is working with the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association chart some of the common challenges involved in integrating behavioral health systems with primary care EHRs. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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Xealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Dr. Shiuh and Aaron shared the substantial opportunity that digital health presents in empowering and engaging patients with their health and care teams in between appointments, and how ChristianaCare chose to implement digital health programs, leveraging a digital health platform to organize, distribute and help measure program success.

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iSALUS Healthcare

MAY 22, 2018

Much of the conversation surrounding telehealth is centered on primary care and how physicians can utilize telehealth to reach patients and improve their practice. Everything that is being said is absolutely true - telecommunication technology is revolutionizing patient care for doctors.

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KevinMD

MARCH 11, 2019

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology attending turns to the gathered medical students who are just starting their first clinical (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

Hawley also said the deal would further reinforce Amazon's market dominance, potentially reshaping the power dynamic of the primary care space.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Key clinical spaces holding the most promise, investors said, were oncology, mental health, primary care, and neurology. The second most prominent health care challenge presenting investment opportunities for digital health was changing reimbursement models, which another part of the survey related to value-based payment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2021

Notwithstanding the wild cards that COVID-19 might present to the forecast scenarios, AAMC believes that the essential drivers of physician supply and demand aren’t changing all that dramatically. Consider a subset of physician shortage shown here in the third chart — that is the shortage expected for primary care doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2021

At present, NowRx pharmacies are located in California and Arizona; the company accepts all major insurance plans except Kaiser Permanente. Speaking of Amazon, it's also no stranger to app-based telehealth care: Amazon Care connects Washington state-based employees with providers for a wide variety of urgent and primary care needs.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 9, 2023

There is a straightforward problem at the center of our business: the way that older adults and caregivers present or describe the aging-related problems they face is widely variable. DUOS is available in all fifty states, depending on health plan coverage.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Recuro presents a comprehensive care delivery solution that aims to improve member engagement rates, HCC coding accuracy, and quality measurement rates through clinically compliant, accurate, and high-quality virtual care services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease. colonoscopy). than on white people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

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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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2020

The third chart presents various ranges of satisfaction for patients, primary care providers, and specialists. Milbank concluded that there is strong support for the use of eConsults to scale health care without sacrificing quality, patient, or clinician satisfaction.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

As a practicing board-certified primary care physician, Dr. Ward has experienced firsthand the frustration that providers and patients face when it comes to navigating data accessibility and usability challenges.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This isn’t the first experience they have of trying to run a healthcare service for employees as in 2013 at Zappos.com (a subsidiary since it was acquired in 2009) they launched TurnTable Health as a ‘next generation primary care clinic’ for staff next door to their huge office in downtown Las Vegas.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

In SA's capital, Adelaide, the safe@home project led by Flinders University is providing chronic disease patients access to daily primary care service via virtual care and telemonitoring. It provides a monitoring kit, which includes medical devices and a digital tablet for uploading health data.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

As we all grapple with what this means at this preliminary stage and then what could evolve over time, I focus on the dual aspect of the opportunity: is this about primary care or is this about data? Amazon is already well-entrenched in many health care activities, as a new report from Bertelsmann Stiftung presented in this chart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

"What I'm inspired by is that story of getting in front of people that really need care and providing them with an easy, convenient way of getting quality care," said Marie Renzi, director of health plan and employer engagement at Amwell. Marie Renzi and Kathryn Soman are scheduled to present at HIMSS21 on Friday, Aug.

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David Chou

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Samsung partners with HealthTap to bring virtual primary care to smart TVs HealthTap, a virtual primary care company, has partnered with Samsung so that users of smart TVs can connect to the company's healthcare platform and visit a doctor of their choice using the built-in camera on their television.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2023

Specialty care is where the cost and complexity lives in healthcare. For patients, having unanswered questions, receiving a new diagnosis or managing an existing chronic condition presents real challenges that induce stress, confusion and real risk to health and financial wellbeing. Accelerate access to leading physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it presented Portland, Oregon-based Legacy Health with a multitude of staffing challenges where clinicians and staff were unable to come to work safely in the hospitals and clinics. Investing FCC funds in virtual care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 8, 2023

Alison Connelly-Flores, Chief Medical Information Officer at Urban Health Plan (UHP), presented these amazing results at eClinicalWorks’ Health Center Summit held in Boston, MA. UHP offers a variety of primary care services along with 18 subspecialties. not show rate (or the reverse a 57.6% show rate).

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Digital Health Global

MAY 23, 2023

The findings, presented at the recent American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Annual Scientific Meeting , showed that Linus Health’s iPad-based assessment is sensitive enough to identify cases of cognitive impairment that go undetected by the MMSE, providing an opportunity for healthcare providers to intervene earlier on cognitive issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2024

Dr. Sharif Vakili, UpDoc CEO, a practicing primary care physician at Stanford Medicine and entrepreneur advisor at Polaris Partners, and Ashwin Nayak, the company's income chief technical officer, a clinical informatician at Standford, AI researcher and software developer invented the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2021

"The telemedicine technology offers easy accessibility to healthcare, primary care or specialists for the surrounding communities that they would not have otherwise," she continued. "For a resident of Tahoka to go to Lubbock to see a specialist presents a challenge for many. " Avoiding cross contamination.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

For instance, the coronavirus response has made clear the value of online and video-consultations in primary care, and we have seen a remarkable expansion of digital platforms. In the space of weeks, primary care services in the UK have switched from 1.2

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of virtual care across all medical specialties and primary care has been critical, especially in behavioral health. At Iris Telehealth, it’s not unusual for our partners to use telehealth 50-70% of the time for primary care or behavioral health care services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Scheduling in-person appointments with primary care providers as frequently as needed for proper monitoring and follow-ups can be a real challenge for patients with chronic conditions," remarked Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

An app is being presented as THE solution to the pandemic, but it’s just to support local healthcare services,” he said. AI-fueled symptom checkers present with another benefit, he said: “They can help healthcare organisations to organise their peaks of high demands, avoiding saturation in primary care medicine.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." " "On the one hand, telemedicine visits can make care more convenient and accessible by removing physical barriers such as distance or transportation costs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 20, 2023

firsthand establishes trusting relationships with individuals facing complex presentations of SMI through a combination of high-touch field-based services, partnerships with leading community-based service providers, and a whole-person outlook on care. Chief Executive Officer of Ursa Health.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 21, 2023

Drawing tests have long been a proven means of evaluating cognitive function; traditionally administered with pencil and paper, digital alternatives offer a more practical route to expanding cognitive testing in primary care.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Doctors get notified of important things they can address with the patient while they’re present with the patient. How are they supposed to fit all of this other care into such a short visit? Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital.

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