Ambulatory Care
While new technologies are being deployed, health systems can use existing resources to help combat the coronavirus's spread.
BMC takes on financially distressed ambulatory surgery centers and makes them viable, company says.
For providers, travel history is key to determine whether to test for the virus in which symptoms can mirror that of the flu.
Among publicly and privately insured children in the sample, respectively, 11% and 9% received unnecessary services at least once in 2014.
The structure of the relationship has yet to be decided, but will be determined following a due diligence process.
Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care's network of 14 locations will extend to San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin and Alameda counties.
Between 1990 and 2016, inpatient admissions globally increased by more than two-thirds, while outpatient visits increased by more than half.
The proposed transaction would yield one of the largest urgent care provider systems in the country, with a combined 251 clinics in 10 states.
Primary care visits to nurse practitioners and physician assistants increased 129 percent from 2012 to 2016, report shows.
For patients referred for an in-person specialty care visit, the median wait time decreased from 50 days before eConsult to 28 days with similar results for high-urgency patients.