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Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
New downtown Toronto clinic may be future of primary care
A new health clinic in downtown Toronto may be the future model of primary healthcare. The Telus Health MyCare Union clinic, a publicly-funded medical centre with no out-of-pocket fees, offers traditional in-person care with a technological twist: the option of virtual appointments via video on patients' phones. The clinic is accepting thousands of new patients from the city as well as people who are employed downtown but travel long distances for work. There are plans for future expansion in a city where approximately half a million residents don't have a family physician. Dr. Alissia Valentinis, Telus Health's senior medical director, said this model could and should be the future of primary care in Ontario. 'When we started this clinic, our goal of course was to help increase accessibility and care to many Ontario and Toronto patients as we could,' she said. 'But we also wanted to ensure we started off on the right foot with our physicians, make sure that we were setting up an environment for them to be able to thrive and not get burnt out so that they can continue to enjoy doing the work of practicing family medicine.' According to the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), family doctors spend 19 hours a week on administrative tasks, including four hours writing notes or completing forms for patients. Dr. Valentinis said that work has been cut down by the use of technology. Doctors at the clinic can use AI Scribe, an artificial intelligence program that summarizes medical notes from real-time conversations between physicians and patients. 'The physician can actually just focus on the patient and watch the patient and not have to keep (their) eyes on the computer. Our physicians have said this has been revolutionary for them in terms of alleviating a lot of the administrative burden.' Startup trying to boost foot traffic in downtown Toronto one step at a time Toronto's homelessness crisis 'completely out of control:' Advocates Across the province, the numbers are dire when it comes to residents without a primary care physician. The OMA says there are at least 2.5 million people not attached to a family doctor. They warn that number may climb to 4.4 million in a year due to retirements and changing careers. However, in late January, Sylvia Jones, Ontario's deputy premier and health minister, announced $1.4 billion in new funding to connect more than two million residents with a family doctor or primary care team within the next four years. The province had earlier earmarked more than $400 million in funding for primary care. Since opening in July 2024 when unused office space was converted into a medical facility inside the Telus building on York St. near Scotiabank Arena, Dr. Valentinis said the clinic has already accepted 3,807 new patients as of last week and has room for at least 2,200 more. Six physicians are currently employed at the clinic and growing their practices, she said, adding Telus Health is working to expand by adding more doctors to the clinic. For Dr. Valentinis, new patients have been 'overwhelmingly positive' about the clinic's accessibility and flexibility. 'Many of the patients that we are seeing have been waiting for years on various wait lists, have been going to walk-in clinics or emergency rooms to get their health care. They are so grateful to have their very own family physician.' Several months after opening, Dr. Valentinis said a large number of patients have been referrals. 'Friends, family, grandparents, children of current patients that are just raving about having their own family doctor.'
Associated Press
03-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
JUNO HEALTH PARTNERS WITH AVO TO INTEGRATE AI INTO ITS EHR SYSTEM
JUNO BEACH, Fla., March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Juno Health, a leader in healthcare innovation and digital transformation, is partnering with Avo, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform, to integrate AI scribe technology into its Juno EHR (electronic health record) systems. Juno Health's cloud-based, ONC-certified acute care and behavioral health solutions are built for the future of healthcare. They use HL7 FHIR APIs as a starting point, are USCDI-compliant, and employ standards-based coding of data elements in support of interoperability. Adding Avo's AI-driven capabilities to Juno Health's already-modern approach further ensures that Juno EHR is ready to help drive healthcare forward. Now, with the inclusion of Avo's AI Scribe, Juno EHR will make it easier for clinicians to interact with patients and practice evidence-based medicine. With HIPAA-secure ambient listening at the point of care in 50-plus languages and the ability to transcribe patient-provider interactions of three-plus participants in real time, clinicians can focus on patient needs instead of data entry. In a recent study at Downstate Health Sciences University, documentation times decreased by an average of 5-10 minutes per note using Avo's technology. With this integration, Juno EHR will be able to combine the captured transcription with EHR data, including past medical records, lab results, and evidence-based guidelines, to generate new documentation that reflects the next best steps of patient care and maximizes reimbursement potential. In addition to aiding clinicians in generating smart notes in seconds, this integration will ensure patients receive the most accurate picture of their visit. 'This is the next logical step for Juno EHR,' Michael Bond, vice president of sales and marketing at Juno Health, said. 'By integrating Avo's capabilities into our solutions, we are further creating opportunities to reduce the documentation burden that leads to clinician burnout while using the latest technology to improve patient outcomes.' Like Juno Health, Avo was created to solve the burdens posed by the status quo of clinical workflows as experienced firsthand by its team of clinicians. 'We are thrilled to partner with Juno Health to empower their customers with ambient technology at the point of care,' Dr. Joongheum Park, cofounder and head of product at Avo, said. 'By integrating Avo's proven AI Scribe as a part of their EHR platform, Juno is demonstrating its commitment to improving clinician well-being and driving reimbursement potential for its customer base.' Juno Health and Avo's partnership will be on display during the 2025 HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition in booth No. 2443. ABOUT JUNO HEALTH At Juno Health, everything we do is driven by the expertise of the doctors, nurses, and clinical professionals on our staff. As a division of DSS, Inc., we combine 575-plus years of clinical experience with more than 30 years of proven success in clinical software development. Our modern, ONC-certified acute care EHR offers unprecedented, system-wide customization capabilities that are governed at the organizational level to provide a truly personalized experience for the user while guaranteeing administrative control. This level of flexibility allows you to streamline workflows, eliminate duplicative tasks, remove roadblocks, and facilitate more successful patient outcomes. ABOUT AVO The Avo clinician support platform empowers healthcare organizations to standardize care and reduce burnout by seamlessly incorporating guidelines and protocols into the clinical workflow, helping to drive clinician adoption of quality initiatives and decrease costs for health systems. The platform is EHR-integrated and powered by its 'no-code' Avo Builder, allowing systems to seamlessly customize or update workflows without IT support. By centralizing the latest information and transforming it into actionable tools in the EHR (or outside of it), Avo simplifies everyday tasks such as pre-charting, care planning, documentation, ambient listening, ordering, and more. Avo aims to standardize care with love, not alerts.
