Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

"We had a multi-faceted approach to just addressing patient access and engagement overall," Alison Connelly-Flores , chief medical information officer of Urban Health Plan, told Healthcare IT News. "This ultimately helps reduce the cost of healthcare and aid better patient outcomes." " Connelly-Flores said.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2023

If providers give payers real-time visibility into their scheduling systems, and capabilities to book appointments during available times, members can be scheduled for an appointment immediately – even during the first interaction with their health plan.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

One of the most important reasons a patient might call a provider is to book an appointment. Conversational AI can help enhance the health outcomes for all patients in manifold ways and truly unlock the healthcare vision of "caring about and for people" as opposed to "treating the diseases."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2024

Men could now book appointments for a male fertility workup directly from their phones. This integration was smooth, as Yosi's platform was designed to work with our existing electronic health records system, ensuring patient information was accurately and securely captured. Online scheduling was another critical component.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

–Unveiled at the companys annual customer conference, Xccelerate 2025, the launch aligns with Innovaccers vision to help organizations to advance health outcomes. Their core functionalities include: Scheduling Agent Automates patient appointment booking, rescheduling, and management.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 27, 2024

Check eligibility, find vaccine availability near you, and book appointments at convenient retail pharmacies. This can be extremely time-consuming and lead to indecision or inaction – and as a result, poor health outcomes,” said Aamir Malik, Executive Vice President, Chief U.S. healthcare system. Commercial Officer, Pfizer. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 15, 2025

The network is not beholden to shareholders, investors, or vendors and decisions are made to benefit health outcomes, not to generate profit. We are an open book, publicly sharing our pricing, policies, agreements, webinars, and other information on our website.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Enhancing Health Outcomes for Older Adults through Uber Health and NationsBenefits Partnership The Uber Health and NationsBenefits partnership streamlines access to essential services, facilitating a seamless experience from booking to payment.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment? Lately, one of my speaking topics is the “Amazon Prime-ing” of health consumers, which is also a chapter in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2025

This evolution will shift the industry from reactive care to a model that delivers timely, tailored support at every step, raising the bar for both patient satisfaction and health outcomes. Healthcare providers that fail to offer these capabilities risk alienating consumers and falling behind in a rapidly evolving market.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Delivering a scalable, financially viable model that can actually provide the necessary impact on health outcomes would have transformative effects on the industry. Another critical challenge for Amazon will be delivering an actual impact on health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

of the total market share due to increased adoption to manage chronic conditions and monitor health outcomes. OpenLoop White-Label Telehealth Solutions OpenLoop was founded with the mission to expand access to care and improve community health outcomes. Additionally, telehealth services hold 45.7%

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2022

One Medical combines in-person care in inviting offices across the country with digital health and virtual care services, making it easier for patients to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records, and advance health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

This can be anything from finding care, booking appointment and completing forms online, to availing of telehealth services and digital billing. In value-based care systems, there is a great emphasis on preventative services and reducing hospital readmissions, thus providing better health outcomes and reducing the overall cost of care.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

National virtual-care organizations have not had a seamless way to book an appointment with local care providers, and thus have difficulty knowing if the patient completed the next step in their care journey. When patients are not able to complete the care journey, this can lead to disjointed care, poor health outcomes and higher costs.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Building Sprinter Health brings the last mile of healthcare into the modern age by sending fully-employed nurses or phlebotomists (“Sprinters”) into the home for quick and affordable lab draws, vitals checks, COVID-19 testing and more.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenLoop White-Label Telehealth Solutions: OpenLoop was founded with the mission to expand access to care and improve community health outcomes. Clinicians can manage appointments, write prescriptions, chart notes and handle booking and payments all in one place.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Some, but not necessarily a majority, of consumers see benefits in using digital health — primary for wellness and prevention, and to get a better understanding of personal health. As for improving health outcomes, reducing time spent with doctors, and lowering cost of care?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” The authors further point out that the resulting disproportionate access to health care can also explain disparities in other health outcomes such as chronic and infectious disease (e.g., disproportionate risks to mortality due to complications from COVID-19, which I discussed here in Health Populi).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

could save $67 billion in health costs if every American used a primary care physician as their go-to, usual source of care. The challenge is that access to quality care isn’t always easy to come by, with appointments often booked out for months. For self-insured employers, access to high-quality, nationwide networks is critical.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality. A recently released book that critiques data collection on individuals, The Hank Show by McKenzie Funk, connects the history of tracking individuals with current trends in analytics, AI, and facial recognition.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2024

This not only improves individual health outcomes but strengthens brand reputation and improves operational efficiency. Process Frustrations: AI illuminates frustrations related to processes like prior authorizations or appointment booking.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Read more… How Health Systems Can Benefit From 5G. John provided some takeaways from an e-Book from Corning, 4 Reasons Why 5G and Healthcare Make Sense. The main benefits are speed, capacity, and latency – but health systems can’t get started with 5G unless they start with a strong 5G infrastructure first.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

we haven’t come to terms with embracing our Health Citizenship — that is, our rights and responsibilities for claiming our health and health care in America. Ultimately, the Community PPE Index could be considered, “the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Index,” the authors believe. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs. Let me connect the dots.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

He shared this image from Cracked Labs which illustrates the many data sources beyond the legacy health care claim that stakeholders can access and, if used for good, can benefit patient care and health outcomes. The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care. for Americans. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

The FCC is updating its Mapping Broadband Health in America platform to incorporate maternal health data , with the aim of identifying whether Internet connectivity is tied to disparities in maternal health outcomes and determining where interventions could have the greatest impact.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Such barriers lead to delays in care, skipped appointments, and missed medications, contributing to poor management of chronic illness, adverse health outcomes, and increased costs, ” RTI observed, calling ageist social determinants of health “ a call-to-action for the Baby Boomer population.”

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. For other takes on Mackey’s HIMSS keynote, check out… MedCity News here and.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 6, 2024

Their health and well-being should always be the top consideration when providing the best possible care. By prioritizing patients, you can ensure that they receive the attention and treatment they deserve and help them achieve optimal health outcomes. Do patient portals increase engagement with users? Research suggests so.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

Yet, for those living with the most common chronic conditions, improved health outcomes are neither mysterious nor overly complex. It’s a simple formula: take your medications, get timely preventive care exams, see your doctors regularly, and keep track of vitals, and health outcomes will improve.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

How can we unify the system around the ultimate goal of better health outcomes? We collaborated on a book, Building the New Economy: Data as Capital , which paints a picture of user-centric data ownership, where data trusts can empower people and communities. What’s the current state of our patient data economy?

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That program has the potential to change our Medicare members manage meds at home to ensure better adherence, supporting better health outcomes and personal feelings of efficacy and control. [As Last week, the Giant Eagle grocery chain was the first pharmacy retailer to offer a new medication management skill via Alexa.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As the key to ensuring seamless information exchange between healthcare stakeholders, interoperability is bound to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. Health cloud technology helps care organizations harness data to optimize clinical quality while reducing costs, making it a worthy long-term investment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This quote of Shaheed’s from AdAge strikes at the heart of what IKEA’s ThisAbles program really means: “Did the technology bring a level of humanity? I concluded my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , focusing in on our homes as our health/care and medical hubs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

With patients shifting toward a digital-first approach for care navigation, health plans will need to embrace a broader set of care delivery mechanisms and make the full spectrum of specialist options easier to find. Craig Worland, Chief Development Officer at Southeast Primary Care Partners.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Telemedicine, telehealth and virtual care have essentially become the delivery tools of the future for personalized medicine that results in better health outcomes at lower cost.

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