Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. WHY IT…
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Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth announced it is partnering with Georgia-based healthcare system Emory Healthcare to provide patients in-home follow-up and high-acuity medical care. Through DispatchHealth, patients can request an in-home urgent care medical visit…
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Most health system executives would describe the severity of the nursing shortage in their organization as critical, but many hospitals aren’t employing the right tactics for hiring and retaining nurses, according to a report…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 09, 2023 – Launched by Cedars-Sinai, a telehealth-based service known as the Virtual Second Opinion Program aims to assist patients needing cardiac, spine, or gynecologic care through second-opinion consultations with specialists and…
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Health system executives agree that burnout and labor productivity are their foremost concerns. There are dozens of startups on the market that produce technology designed to mitigate these problems, but hospitals are still struggling…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 07, 2023 – Following a successful pilot at Covenant Medical Center, Providence will expand a hybrid nursing model, Co-Caring, to ten additional units in its hospitals throughout its seven-state service area.
Co-Caring is…
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By Anuja Vaidya
June 06, 2023 – University of Florida Health (UF Health) has launched a mobile stroke unit that leverages telehealth to improve stroke care.
The mobile stroke units include a diagnostic computerized tomography (CT) scanner,…
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Value-based kidney care company Strive Health secured $166 million in Series C funding, which it will use to expand into new markets, the company announced Wednesday.
Denver, Colorado-based Strive Health works with payers (including commercial,…
Lindsey Klein, Chief Strategy Officer at QGenda
How do we attract good nurses? More importantly: How do we keep them?
Those questions have reverberated throughout hospitals and health systems nationwide lately—but they’re not new. Even before…
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California-based virtual care company Included Health is partnering with Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth to add a virtual-to-in-home care model to its offerings. Included Health delivers healthcare benefits and insurance navigation services as well as…
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