Thriving in COVID Times
By KIM BELLARD
These are, no question, hard times, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S., we’re closing in on 180,000 deaths in the U.S. Some 40 million workers lost their jobs, and over 30 million are still receiving unemployment benefits. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of small businesses are believed to have closed, and many big companies are declaring bankruptcy. Malls, retailers, and restaurants have been among the hardest hit.
Yes, these are hard times. But not for everyone.
Last week Target announced what CNBC called a “monster quarter.” ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
How to recruit more students into family medicine
In 2019, a Policy One-Pager produced by the Robert Graham Center reported that the percentage of the active U.S. physician workforce in primary care practice declined from 32 percent in 2010 to 30 percent in 2018. Although family physicians represent 4 in 10 primary care physicians, in several states, a large percentage o f family physicians are older than 55 […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kenneth-lin" rel="tag" > Kenneth Lin, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Despite COVID-19 Challenges, Primary Care Practice Improves Patient Health Using Digital Tools
With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight . The transition has been a big challenge for many practices, some of which had been offering few if any telehealth services before […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Carium CCM Health Coaching and Lifestyle Management Services Lifestyle Medical Medicare Patient Bio Source Type: blogs
Thinklabs One Electronic Stethoscope Helps Physicians Stop Spread of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation and use of telemedicine and telehealth platforms and devices as part of current day-to-day standards of care in many hospital and healthcare systems. In this era of social distancing, doctors on our frontlines are at the most risk when diagnosing patients, and it’s therefore important to minimize exposure whenever possible. One of the devices patients immediately associate with check-ups is the stethoscope – a tool not only for assessment, but for bringing a sense of connection between doctors and patients.
Thinklabs Medical has created leading electronic stethosco...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Education Emergency Medicine Exclusive Geriatrics Informatics Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
Telehealth ’s Missing Link: In the Rush to Implement Virtual Care, What Did CMS Leave Out?
By RAY CONSTANTINI, MD
Imagine three months from now when the predicted ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 is expected to resurge and we’re still without a vaccine. Telehealth has become the entry-point to care, widely adopted by patients both young and old. Now, when an elderly diabetic patient wakes up in the middle of the night with a dull ache on her left side and back, she doesn’t ignore the symptom, like she may have during the first COVID outbreak. Instead, she logs online to her local hospital’s website from a cell phone and accesses a simple questionnaire to report her health history and presenting symptom...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Health Technology Bright.md Ray Constantini Telehealth virtual care Source Type: blogs
Telemedicine is making our patient-doctor relationships more human. And that ’s a good thing.
COVID-19 essentially shut down my in-person primary care practice, and we immediately turned to telemedicine ( “seeing” a patient virtually either through a phone or video-based visit). My primary care group did this out of necessity, but nobody predicted how much we would like it, or how effective it can be for patient care. The most […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/amy-wheeler" rel="tag" > Amy Wheeler, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Mobile health Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Primary Care Practices Need Help to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ken Terry
Paul Grundy
By PAUL GRUNDY, MD and KEN TERRY
Date: June 20, 2022.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has reported its biggest number of visitors in more than 2 ½ years. There’s a string of new Broadway musicals that are well-attended every night. It’s safe to shop in malls, eat out in restaurants and go to movie theaters again.
Of course, this has all been made possible by an effective vaccine against COVID-19 that was widely administered in the fall of 2021. Vaccinated citizens of the world are now confident that it’s safe to go out in public, albeit with appropriate precaut...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Primary Care Ken Terry Paul Grundy Source Type: blogs
How to Practice High-Quality Telemedicine in the Era of COVID-19
By ANISH MEHTA, MD
My practice received its first question about coronavirus from a patient on January 28, 2020. Though there were over 200 deaths reported in China by that time, no one could have imagined how drastically this would come to disrupt our lives at home.
Thankfully, I had a head start.
As a doctor at an integrated telemedicine and primary care practice in New York City, nearly two out of every three of my medical encounters that month was already virtual.
I spent much of January caring for patients who had contracted seasonal viruses, like influenza or norovirus (i.e. the stomach flu). My patients ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How Will COVID-19 Change the Health Care Balance of Power?
By KEN TERRY
In any economic disaster, the largest, best-financed organizations have a natural advantage over smaller, cash-strapped organizations. The bigger entities have a greater ability to withstand economic downturns, while the small ones can quickly go out of business because they lack the financial reserves needed to tide them over.
In the roughly 2 ½ months since the COVID-19 pandemic began sinking its hooks into America, the pertinence of this business axiom has been amply illustrated. Small companies across the country are desperate to reopen so they can survive, while many large corporations are seeing t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Ken Terry Source Type: blogs
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A strong foundation of primary care is critical to the health system and is particularly important during pandemics like COVID-19. Primary care practices should be a natural fit for triaging, testing, treating, and educating patients. The current crisis reveals this is not happening in the United States and is highlighting the long-standing flaws in the system.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Corinne Lewis, Shanoor Seervai, Tanya Shah, Melinda K. Abrams, Laurie Zephyrin, M.D. Source Type: blogs
6 self-care steps for a pandemic — always important, now essential
Airline attendants say it well: if the plane hits turbulence and the oxygen masks come down, place a mask on yourself first before turning to help others. This is absolutely critical. If we don’t, we may not be able to help anyone.
Well, we’ve all hit the same turbulence, folks, and we all need to take good care of ourselves, our bodies, and our minds.
Healthcare providers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic absolutely have to be functioning well in order to do their jobs well. At such a stressful time, with so much change and uncertainty, combined with the pressures of patient care during this pandemic, it ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Eating Mental Health Source Type: blogs
The small practice primary care response to COVID-19
I am scared as I sit down to write about our journey as a small practice as we fight along with the rest of the world against the unthinkable force of nature in the form of a COVID-19 pandemic. My small primary care practice is only two years old. In a time when medical practices […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 31, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/talal-khan" rel="tag" > Talal Khan, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The Primary Cares Initiative: How Value-Based Payment Models Aim to Strengthen Primary Care
Conclusion
The Primary Cares Initiative represents not just a single push to improve the health care system as a whole through primary care, but an overarching drive to do so via many initiatives and programs. Bringing more practices on board with initiatives such as the PCMH, CPC+, innovation within Medicare Advantage, and the Primary Cares Initiative will undoubtedly solidify the success of these and future programs, as stakeholders and policymakers come to a greater understanding of how to incentivize and create a path toward improved health care outcomes.
Chris Jaeger is the Advisor for ACO and Health System Stra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Primary Care AristaMD Chris Jaeger CMS primary cares initiative Source Type: blogs
Health Insurers and Retail Pharmacies Expand Primary Care Services
I have blogged extensively about how health insurers and retail pharmacies have been entering the primary care market.Market Watch recently published an article informing the investor community about this trend (see:Health insurers and retail pharmacies are making a play for primary care). Below is an excerpt from this article:CVS Health..., Humana..., Walgreens..., Walmart...and UnitedHealth Group now operate hundreds of clinics that directly market themselves as primary care providers or provide a majority of primary care services. And they all plan to open more clinics in 2020....As the U.S. health care system has...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 6, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Insurance Public Health Source Type: blogs
9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY
In order to celebrate the next decade (although the internet is confused whether its actually the end of the decade…), we’re taking a step back and listing our picks for the 9 most influential healthcare companies of the 2010s. If your company is left off, there’s always next decade… But honestly, we tried our best to compile a unique listing that spanned the gamut of redefining healthcare for a variety of good and bad reasons. Bon appétit!
1. Epic Systems Corporation
The center of the U.S. electronic medical record (EMR) universe resides in Verona, Wisconsin. Population of 13,166. The ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Start-Ups Andy Mychkovsky Healthcare Pizza Innovation Startups Source Type: blogs
