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Virtual primary care understands a patient's needs over time and helps them navigate to the right care – whether for urgent needs, a wellness visit, or specialty care.
Health system execs are updating strategies to meet new imperatives, Philips' new Future Health Index 2022 report shows. Their priorities: expanding digital transformation, managing a human capital crisis and closing the equity gap.
With the U.S. underinvesting in ambulatory care, patients avoiding preventive visits and PCPs still overburdened, new IT and staffing strategies are needed. But one expert says fee-for-service payments are standing in the way.
It also offers online training to upskill health workers.
This form of telehealth addresses the psychiatrist shortage, helps serve patients in underserved areas and boosts patient satisfaction, a telepsychiatry expert says.
Techmedo founder Zahid Ali sees changemakers as surmounting the challenges they faced during the pandemic.
The 28-state health system is using telemedicine to greatly expand its footprint for its specialists, who are concentrated in a metro area of northwest Ohio.
The chief digital and information officer discusses deploying ambient voice technology throughout many departments to ease documentation and clinician burden.
American Surgery Center's move to automated billing and inventory tracking bolstered its bottom line, its leaders say, and helped improve decision-making across the enterprise.