Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

In today’s healthcare environment, emergency rooms and urgent care centers are often the first points of contact for the uninsured. These patients face unique challenges, from high medical costs to limited access to necessary treatments.

Insurance 130

Insurance Patient Advocacy Tests Extended Care 130

Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The American Medical Association (AMA) has created a new resource to help physicians extend care beyond the exam room with technologies that are “changing the way patients interact with healthcare.” This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

Extended Care 89

Extended Care Best Practices Medication Collaboration 89

Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Finally, Deloitte asked consumers about their willingness-to-try emerging technologies, including surgical robots that assist surgeons in procedures, virtual clinical assistants, robots to assist caregiving, voice assistants for medication management support, and drone delivery for prescription drugs to enable a new model for “mobile pharmacy.”

Tests 100

Tests Billing Extended Care Clinical Assistant 100

Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to making cutting out waste in healthcare spending Job 1, OECD also notes that medical errors also represent waste in clinical settings, and that employing trained clinical workers to function at the top of their abilities could also be a useful strategy for cost-saving and extending care for access.

Extended Care 62

Extended Care Hospital Medication 62

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Enter the second chart, which expands what we traditionally have called “home healthcare” into new areas for care at home. Typically, home healthcare has covered (definitionally and in terms of reimbursement) services addressing activities of daily living, durable medical equipment, and hospice.

Diagnostics 102

Diagnostics Collaboration Long Term Care Hospice 102

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs). In health systems with high-demand for COVID care, Philips has seen intense demand to extend care via “eICUs” which enhance productivity in scarce resource situations. The new medical home is…home.

Hospital 149

Hospital Acute Care Unit Organization and Environment Vital Signs 149

Health Populi

MAY 21, 2019

The second graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , illustrates those social determinants of health beyond medical services. .” What’s promising about a consumer-driven and -defined holistic approach is that we know health is largely made outside of the doctor’s office.

Extended Care 118

Extended Care Appointments Tests Medication 118