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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Landmark Health collaborate to bring in-home medical care to complex patients
The providers are supported by a local multidisciplinary team including behavioral health clinicians, nurses, social workers and dietitians.
Diverting avoidable emergency department visits could save healthcare $32 billion annually
Primary care services rendered by hospital EDs come with substantially higher price tags than in primary care settings, data showed.
Use of non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth grew nearly 1,400%
In 2018, non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth accounted for 84 percent of all telehealth claim lines.
Critical heart drug too pricey for some Medicare patients
Even with insurance, the cost to Medicare patients may be more than $1,600 a year, which may prohibit some from even taking the drug at all.
Nurses may not have adequate instruction on how to respond to a catastrophe
Events that are less likely to occur, but have greater impact when they do, usually receive fewer training hours.
Vast majority of physicians want to be more involved in health system digital patient access initiatives
Providers recognize the importance of a modern, online consumer experience, but most want more control around related projects.
Private practice physicians less likely to maintain electronic records, study shows
Forty-nine percent of surveyed physicians who had remained independent since 2011 attested to meaningful use of EHRs.
Amazon contemplating lawsuit against Surescripts
How Medicare Advantage plans can begin closing coverage gaps through better communication
Personalized communications and robust analytics capabilities can help MA plans avoid some of the pitfalls of coverage gaps.
CMS has 2019 Medicare ACO class
About 40 new ACOs entered the program, which is less than the 100-plus new ACOs the program averaged in its first 7 years.
