Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The latest patient engagement survey from Stericycle Communication Solutions found that nearly half of patients have booked appointments online (48%) or sought care from a non-traditional provider (45%) in the last year, with half of those patients using retail care and one-third using virtual care. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Improving senior care and facilitating aging in place.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. ” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2023

Any dates (except years) that are directly related to an individual, including birthday, date of admission or discharge, date of death, or the exact age of individuals older than 89. You may not realize it, but you just divulged that the patient received treatment and care from you. Telephone number. Fax number. Email address.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

The CDC reported in the aptly-named Morbidity and Mortality Report on this long-term care facility in late March, detailing cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visits. The infection quickly spread through the facility and then to others in King County, Washington state. To that point, 23 people had died, CDC noted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. Reducing the cost of care requires aligning incentives of providers, payers and patients. Social determinants of health: The next stage of value-based care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Brownlee, now an SVP at the Lowns Institute and Co-Founder of the Right Care Alliance, pointed out the dangers of super-sized medicine, from unnecessary radiation exposure and hospital infections to medical errors and duplication of services. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care. A brief background about myself and my practice: I am an occupational medicine physician working under a not-for-profit health care system. My patient population is the working class, ages 14 and older. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Medical care is rife with discrimination on the basis of race and gender , particularly toward LGBTQ+ people. A Mandate to Address SDoH According to Hillit Meidar-Alfi, founder and chief executive officer of Spatially Health , value-based care models are pushing healthcare providers to use SDoH.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A movie favorite for many in Business Development is “The Internship”, where two salesmen whose careers have been halted by not keeping up with the digital age get lucky enough to navigate an internship at Google. Personal Care Product Council (PCPC), Virtual Quality Symposium, October 26, www.personalcarecouncil.org.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 20, 2022

A couple retiring in 2022 should budget $315,000 to cover their health care costs in retirement, based on the 21st annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate from Fidelity Investments. For additional context and potential sticker-shock, note that long-term care in the U.S. according to Genworth’s 2021 Cost of Care Survey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. It is being updated regularly with more vendors.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

2022 was a year with high and low points for the health care real estate industry. To subscribe to our weekly health care real estate briefing, click here. Expect labor shortage resulting from the tripledemic and its strains to continue to affect health care facility planning well into 2023.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Vincent Opens 10 Women’s Clinics in South Arkansas Lowell In-Home Care Company Faces Racketeering Lawsuit for Alleged Workforce Misclassification Megan Bonney Named President of CHI St. Opens in North Little Rock CHI St. 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

SQA attended, and sponsored as an exhibitor at the Personal Care Product Council Virtual Summit May 11 th to the 13 th. We examined companies that are developing new modalities and adapting to the current manufacturing environment through the modernization of aging facilities and the adoption of innovative approaches and processes.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thoughtful scholars have argued that existing state laws do not sufficiently redress mistakes and accidents that occur in the process of fertility care, pregnancy, and birth. Specifically, lawmaking in fertility care stands to fuel the movement to create fetal personhood rights and a federal abortion ban.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The stress of me dealing with the age and circumstances of my parents has also been impactful to say the least, but thankfully they are fine and well and taking all necessary precautions to stay that way. Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to media@sqaservices.com. Hey Associates! How can we help you?

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

For Justice Coney Barrett, this consideration was a non sequitur: “Why don’t safe haven laws take care of that problem?”. Following the law’s passage, 75 billboards publicized it: the tag-line “Don’t Abandon Your Baby” is similar to the anti-abortion directive “Don’t Kill/Abort Your Baby.”.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Care collaboration technology vendor TigerConnect has debuted TigerTouch, a text message-oriented, audio/visual telehealth system designed to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases. The system also enables care providers to securely exchange photos, videos and file attachments on their smartphones. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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