Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

The convergence of basic needs like hygiene and safety, financial and health security, and living-working-learning-and-cooking-at-home has turbocharged a migration of more acute care delivered at home.

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Health Populi

JULY 29, 2021

We can also expect pharmacies, writ large, to be entering our households not only delivering to the front porch or mailbox, but getting inside for more acute care — think dialysis, medication monitoring and adherence, and marrying food-to-medicine.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

For acute care, antibiotics aplenty, pain relief, GI, respiratory/cough, corticosteroids among others commonly prescribed in urgent care clinics and visits. Based on GNC’s website FAQ fine print, telehealth consultations are conducted with licensed physicians board-certified in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What factors must underpin this Holy Grail of care at home, or “anywhere?” ” Here are a few current examples of enabling pillars to support people in their self-care for chronic conditions, well-being, and acute care outside of the hospital. Start with connectivity to the home and elsewhere by phone.

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Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2019

The AI part of “SMAQ” is one of the tools the health care industry will increasingly use to personalize, customize, and “immediate-ize” health care across the continuum, from wellness and fitness to acute care and rehabilitation.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Walgreens has grown its primary care footprint through the VillageMD connection, now owning 2/3 of the company and expanding PCP practices to over 25 U.S. Like CVS Health, Walgreens is also expanding home care services and post-acute care, and specialty pharma to complement pharmacy operations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2019

Those six segments are doctors, dentists, acute care, non-acute care (like long-term care and rehab), manufacturers, and other health care services.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But even at 6% growth for specialty care and hospital inpatient services, acute care providers must “accommodate current patients and bring in the new ones who want to come in,” the consultants recommended.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

A decade+ later, we see the maturing of the patient-as-consumer, taking on more self-care beyond fitness and wellness blurring into medical and acute care as hospitals re-locate services and monitoring to people at home and people becoming more activated in tracking chronic conditions, from head-to-toe.

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The role of HCAHPS in determining reimbursement Since 2012, HCAHPS’ patient satisfaction scores have been pivotal in hospital reimbursement through the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Improve your patient satisfaction scores More than ever, a hospital’s success is contingent on its ability to prioritize patient experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2023

Most commonly provided today are diagnostic imaging centers, ambulatory care centers, community healthcare workers, labs, and walk-in centers.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Emergency care Coordination of emergency care helps ensure that patients who come to the emergency department receive timely, appropriate, and high-quality care and are safely and effectively transitioned to the next level of needed care, whether it is inpatient, outpatient, or home-based.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. Why the Six Domains of Health Care Quality emerged.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Lower patient satisfaction scores Not only can inadequate nurse staffing lead to lower patient satisfaction ratings, a 2021 study found that quality of nursing correlated directly with overall hospital rating. Relias Vitals+Vision Podcast Join us as we sit down with Hassan M.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As leaders continue to focus on improving quality of care , improving the patient experience, and reducing readmissions, healthcare organizations find an even greater need for an effective onboarding process to ensure nurses are prepared to care for complex patient populations.

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Relias

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Nurse residency programs benefit both nurses and hospitals. Nursing school prepares students for the hospital setting, but healthcare professionals know that a classroom is no replacement for the real thing.

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Relias

APRIL 28, 2022

More complete documentation also helps your organization monitor and track the level of care you provide with detail and accuracy. This offers a better total feedback loop for both clinical and administrative staff, leading to a superior picture of patient experiences and outcomes.

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Guideway Care

JANUARY 14, 2025

Utilizing such cutting-edge technology enables these professionals to tailor their support more effectivelythereby elevating both the quality of outcomes that patients experience as well as their levels of satisfaction with received services. Ready to experience the benefits of patient advocacy for your healthcare organization?

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Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

Payments are based on the quality of care provided, with providers earning an overall sum for treating a patient with a given condition. Seeks to coordinate care and improve the patient experience with price transparency, bundling of services, and personalized care teams called “ medical homes.”.

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Relias

MARCH 15, 2022

That requires education , coaching, and experience to ensure an optimal patient experience. Technology is not the answer for everything. You need to have people who are empathetic and concerned,” underscored Brooks. Revenue cycle departments, however, are seeing unprecedented challenges with recruitment and retention.

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Guideway Care

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Initiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2013, TCM is focused on strengthening care coordination while striving to diminish instances of patients returning to the hospital after discharge.

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Relias

AUGUST 4, 2023

Nurse engagement affects patient outcomes Research has shown that when patients receive care from a highly-engaged, high-performing team of clinicians, outcomes improve. The interdependent connection between all these characteristics and patient experience is undeniable.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Patient portal development is one such shift that has heralded a novel era of patient engagement in the healthcare industry. According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020.

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Relias

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Cheri DiStefano had been working in the corporate world for over a decade when she felt a calling to go to nursing school. Many people consider career changes, but few follow through. She took that brave leap, and it turned out to be the first of many challenging and rewarding events to come.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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Relias

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yet ultimately, one approach that providers can learn and apply from Jhpiego’s work abroad is what Hyre described as applying the study of behavior design to better understand how patients experience care. Despite their best efforts and intentions, providers may overlook a population’s needs.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

CMS’s Report found that the level of nurse staffing is associated with patient safety, patient functional status, and patient experience. Since 2015, SNFs have been required to electronically submit direct care staffing information based on payroll and other auditable data to CMS’s Payroll Based Journal system.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

With Epic in 38% of acute care hospitals (as of May 2024), their vision of democratizing and validating health AI will also help scale that easy-button for care. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A double-entendre intended, one of the states I’ll be discussing is the migration of acute care back to peoples’ homes, embedded with sensors, householders donning smart rings, and rooms fitted with Internet-of-Things for health and well-being.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Increasingly, patients-as-health-consumers are using apps and tools for managing health in their own hands and homes. So Congress: this is the real world for patients, now consumers spending more out of pocket for their health care, seeking greater engagement in their medical care, ongoing well-being, and longevity.

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