Elation Health announced its acquisition of medical billing company Lightning MD — a deal the company made to help it become an all-in-one technology platform for primary care providers. Lightning MD stood out from other medical billing startups because of its ease of use, Elation CEO Kyna Fong said.
Millennium Physician Group — an independent care group with more than 800 providers across Florida, Texas, and North Carolina — announced successful results following its adoption of Navina’s AI platform. The organization said that the platform saved time, reduced burnout and gave physicians more confidence about forming care plans with patients.
A new survey of 521 licensed primary care physicians found 21 percent are somewhat dissatisfied with their current EHR and 13 percent are very dissatisfied with it.
The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus program aims to help primary care practices coordinate care, offer preventive health services, engage patients in their own care and help those with serious or chronic illnesses set and work toward health goals.
While policymakers debate whether requiring 5 percent of patients to communicate with their healthcare providers through portals is too onerous, a small primary care practice run by a 65-year-old physician is showing that patient engagement is not only possible, it's profitable.
Comprehensive primary care is essential to good health, wellness and needed medical care during our elder years. It is critical to Aging Gracefully. In the last few posts I wrote that Aging Gracefully physically requires attention to lifestyle/behaviors to assure good nutrition, plenty of exercise, reduced stress, no tobacco and – for preserving cognitive function […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
BALTIMORE — A few years ago it struck the D.C. region’s biggest medical insurer that the doctors who saw its members most often and knew them best got the smallest piece of the healthcare dollar. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield spent billions on hospital procedures, drugs and specialty physicians to treat sick patients. Only one dollar in […]
NAMPA, Idaho – When Idaho’s largest hospital system bought the state’s largest doctor practice in 2012, the groups expressed hope that the deal would spark a revolution in delivering better-quality care. Instead, it ignited a costly legal battle with state and federal regulators and rival hospital systems. Officials at Boise-based St. Luke’s Health System thought […]
The answer is probably about 1000 or less. But most primary care physicians (PCPs) have a panel of perhaps 2,500 patients and often more. Why the dichotomy? As insurers have held the line on physician reimbursement in the current fee-for-service system, PCPs have found that they must increase the number of visits per day in […]
The state of Oregon is trying some experiments to bring different kinds of medical professionals under the same roof. Patients can see different kind of doctors in one visit, and the hope is it will provide better patient care, eventually at less cost ...
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
BOSTON (IMNG) – Women who complain about cognitive problems after menopause might have increases rather than decreases in volume of certain brain regions, reported investigators at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2013. Brain imaging studies of 48 women in the early years of menopause showed that those with subjective cognitive complaints had significantly greater volumes […]
Higher glucose levels were associated with an elevated risk of dementia in a community-based cohort study reported Aug. 8 in the New England Journal of Medicine. High glucose levels were linked to this adverse effect both in people who had diabetes and in people who did not. “These data suggest that higher levels of glucose […]
Dr. Ted Eytan and Stephanie Nguyen of Silica Labs created this prototype for a doctor-patient interaction using Google Glass. The software could offer a doctor a quick scan of a patient’s basic information when she enters the exam room. This could include everything from a map of where the person lives to what she prefers […]
MADRID (IMNG) – Researchers have begun testing whether immunologic modification can forestall rheumatoid arthritis in people at high risk for the disease and also have identified smoking and overweight as two modifiable risk factors strongly linked to disease onset. In a group of 55 people without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were enrolled because of a […]
When the federal health law takes effect in January, some 30 million more Americans are expected to have health insurance, many for the first time. An already critical shortage of primary care providers may make a doctor’s appointment hard to com...
