Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. How can virtual care enable this?

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The company currently supports 30,000 primary-care-first clinicians delivering high-value care to more than 12 million Americans. Welcoming Tom and Seth to the Elation leadership team supports our continued work to facilitate and elevate the delivery of primary care in any setting,” said Kyna Fong, Ph.D.,

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DigitalHealth

MARCH 25, 2024

Primary Care Networks using the Holly Health digital health and wellbeing coaching tool have seen a reduction in GP appointments.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Also: JAXJOX's connected home exercise tools bring in a $10 million Series A; Navina collects $7 million for its primary care provider support platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. "Primary care is resilient but has weakened.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our work with Elation Health and the integration of Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit within their primary care platform and ePrescribing workflow can help eliminate sticker-shock at the pharmacy that can prevent patients from starting their medications,” said Andrew Mellin, M.D.,

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 16, 2024

OSF HealthCare, which Fortune named one of the Most Innovative Companies in 2023 , possesses deep expertise in industry-leading patient care. BEN’s goal is to create rich and engaging customer experiences and empower organizations with new tools that can accelerate business productivity and efficiency with our AI technology.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Addressing the exponential growth of direct primary care (DPC) organizations – an increase of 241% from 2017 to 2021 – Hint helps clinicians manage the unique complexities of a membership-based primary care model. Michael Docktor, CEO and co-founder of Dock Health. “I

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Elation said it would offer a product that includes Lightning MD's tools in beta starting this summer.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2024

Today, many traditional care models remain siloed and fall short of whole-person-centered care that addresses both behavioral and physical health conditions – and how they impact each other. The role of behavioral health in primary care Behavioral health factors have a strong influence on patient morbidity and mortality.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Primary care physicians are the frontline of healthcare. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a primary care provider shortfall , with numbers landing between 21,000 to 55,000 by 2023. But other factors drive primary care barriers as well, such as affordability issues and rural shortages.

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Digital Health Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If there was still any debate about the flavor of the month in the digital health VC club, primary care enablement company Vytalize Health just settled it with its $100M Series C round. Primary care enablement is the name of the game 2023. The funding will also help Vytalize keep ahead of any growing pains.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 20, 2019

If everyone had access to high-quality primary care, the outcome would be healthier lives and dramatic cost savings. Despite the benefits, 30% of American adults and nearly half of millennials don’t have a primary care physician.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2020

Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely.

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FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 11, 2019

leads in aspects of health information technology, its primary care physicians still struggle to coordinate patient care and communicate with other health and social service providers, according to a new study. While the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million.

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KevinMD

MAY 16, 2021

It will not come as a surprise to my fellow clinicians that the pandemic has spurred a boom in digital health and health technology innovation, evidenced by the increasing sales pitches we receive for these new solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 22, 2019

The deal comes with an investment of "tens of millions of dollars" from Anthem to K Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The survey, which reached out to primary care physicians around the world, found that despite having powerful health IT tools at the ready, U.S.-based based PCPs are still finding it difficult to coordinate care with other […]. healthcare system today.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

million for primary care coordination tool. Also: HelloHero scores $7.7 million for special education-focused startup, and Pair Team nabs $7.3

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 10, 2022

The enterprise product will include Folx's tools like virtual primary care, hormone replacement therapy and PrEP, as well as support for parents.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The company also announced Washington-based MultiCare Health System will be the first to license its tools for Indigo Health, the health system's hybrid urgent and primary care service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2024

We can expect to see tremendous growth and adoption in virtual primary care and hybrid care models in 2024. Access to primary care is critical to improving patient outcomes and preventing costly complications that result from patients delaying or avoiding care. Please elaborate.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I spoke recently with Dr. Rob Lamberts – @doc_rob on Twitter – about EHRs and direct primary care. He was an avid user and proponent of the EHR, seeing it as a valuable tool for improving the quality of patient care. When implementing the EHR in his practice, he focused on fitting the EHR to his practice, not vice versa.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The top-line theme of the report is that, “The $260 billion primary care market is dominated by traditional providers in a fee-for-service arrangement, but that is changing rapidly,” the report begins. “By 2030, nontraditional players could own as much as 30% of the primary care market.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 20, 2023

Summus, a virtual specialty care company, has launched a new tool connecting providers with specialists for eConsults. Integrating peer-to-peer communication enhances value-based care models and optimizes patient care, the company argues, reducing costly referrals.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 25, 2024

Elation Health, a company that developed electronic medical record technology for primary care clinicians, is expanding its partnership with Surescripts to bring more transparency around prescripti | Elation Health integrated Surescripts' real-time prescription benefit tool directly into its EHR to give providers access to patient-specific medication (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS DAX Copilot is currently the only fully embedded ambient documentation tool currently operational within Epic electronic health records and has more than 55 healthcare organizations using it, Nuance said in the announcement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telephone) and in-person office visits. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 telephone visits.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 19, 2020

Patient-focused care is no longer just a platitude; it’s a platform that will ensure long-term viability for providers who can successfully implement primary care models, says Mike Davis, who examines the growing digital technology market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

" The services deployed included video visits in specialty and primary care, remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions that required medical oversight, and extending the reach of Grady Health's Mobile Integrated Health program with the addition of mobile telehealth kits. " Collaborative IT.

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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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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Recent coverage expansions have increased the use of telehealth tools, but the technology remains relatively uncommon. A new study that looks at more than a decade of telemedicine utilization data for one commercial insurer may shed light on a more efficient policy path for driving widespread adoption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Its financial checklist offers physicians and administrators 14 tips to help business during the public health emergency, such as consolidating administrative resources like coding tools and making better use of digital health technologies. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS , virtual care platform. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD , a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company.

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