DUBLIN (PRWEB)
July 06, 2020

Axios International, a global pioneering healthcare access company, has launched Axios+, a new generation of innovative digital solutions specifically designed to improve patient access and adherence to treatment. The solutions will support Axios-managed Patient Support Programs (PSPs) across Asia, Greater Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

Developed based on more than 23 years of specialized experience designing and managing PSPs, Axios+ aims to improve the medical outcomes of treatment by making it easy for patients to track and manage their treatment, while facilitating and expediting the PSP referral process for physicians, and the medication dispensing process for pharmacists.

Axios+ digital solutions comprise of MyHealth app for patients, MyPatients app for physicians and MyPharmacy app for pharmacists, all linked to Axios’ digital Patient Management System. Anonymized data from the mobile applications is also aggregated into the MyPrograms web application, enabling pharmaceutical companies supporting PSPs to monitor program performance.

“Axios’ ultimate goal has always been to sustainably improve patient access and adherence to treatment to maximize patient’s medical benefits. That is why our PSPs are centered around the patient, rather than the medication boxes, and this approach has naturally been extended to our Axios+ solutions,” said Dr. Joseph Saba, Co-founder and Chief Executive Office of Axios International. “With Axios+, we now have laid a cornerstone in patients’ support outside the healthcare facility in order to optimize treatment outcomes and alleviate the burden on health facilities.”

Axios+ was created by Axios’ Digital Health team following ISO-certified procedures with enhanced security features in compliance with the highest standards of personal data protection and data safety.

“When designing digital health solutions, our main goal is to maintain Axios’ patient centricity while making our processes faster, simpler and easily accessible for stakeholders. Axios+ digital solutions achieve that, and our stakeholders are therefore more likely to engage. That ultimately leads to increasing adherence for patients in our programs,” said Raphael Itah, Head of Digital Health, Axios International. “Another critical focus when it comes to digital health solutions is to balance flexibility, engagement and security. Tremendous effort is continuously put into making Axios+ an airtight ecosystem and protecting our stakeholder data.”

The apps are available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for patients, physicians and pharmacists participating in Axios-managed PSPs.

About Axios International:

Axios International is a pioneering healthcare access company with more than 23 years of specialized experience developing practical and sustainable solutions to patient access challenges in emerging markets. Axios has designed and implemented patient access solutions in more than 100 countries across the globe. For more information, visit the Axios website and LinkedIn.

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (PRWEB)
July 03, 2020

Summit BHC (“Summit” or “the Company”), a leading provider of addiction treatment and behavioral health services, today announced the acquisition of Highland Hospital, a 131-bed psychiatric facility in Charleston, West Virginia. This is Summit’s second acquisition in 2020 and its first facility in West Virginia.

“The addition of Highland Hospital to the Summit family allows us to continue providing quality psychiatric care to our growing population of clients,” stated Jon O’Shaughnessy, CEO of Summit. “Highland Hospital has a solid history of treating patients in state-of-the-art facilities for all ages, as well as providing specific treatment options for people with drug and alcohol addiction.”

“Becoming part of the Summit family allows us to expand our network of care within a national, highly-regarded behavioral health company,” stated Anthony J. Guild, CEO of Highland Hospital. “We look forward to working with Summit’s team to reach new clients in need of psychiatric care.”

Highland Hospital has 91 beds for inpatient acute psychiatric needs with an additional 24 beds dedicated to residential psychiatric treatment. Also, part of the acquisition, the Highland Health Center is a 16-bed crisis residential/detox substance use disorder facility licensed as a behavioral health center.

About Summit BHC

Headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, and founded in June 2013, Summit was established to develop and operate a network of leading addiction treatment and behavioral health centers throughout the country. The company’s sole focus is on the provision and management of specialty Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health services within a flexible and dynamic continuum of care. The leadership team at Summit is composed of senior executives with decades of combined experience in the behavioral healthcare industry at the national level. The company currently owns and operates 20 freestanding behavioral health and addiction treatment centers in 15 states across the country.

About Highland Hospital

Highland Hospital has been serving the West Virginia community for more than sixty years by providing quality mental health care in Charleston.

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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
July 03, 2020

The California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) and our 11,000 members applaud lawmakers and the Governor for reaching a compromise State Budget that preserves vital primary care infrastructure programs. CAFP recognizes the devastating effects COVID-19 has wrought on state revenues and remains committed to working with lawmakers and the American Academy of Family Physicians on securing appropriate federal relief for California.

CAFP appreciates the extraordinary challenges lawmakers faced this year to balance the state’s budget and appreciate lawmakers’ wisdom in not cutting critical primary care infrastructure programs like the Song-Brown Physician Training Program and support for Medi-Cal through Proposition 56 funds. These programs are critical to ensuring access to care for vulnerable patients now and in the future.

The Song-Brown Program significantly improves access to care in underserved areas and reduces the shortage of primary care physicians in California. Song-Brown-funded programs consistently send more than 60 percent of their physician graduates to practice in state and federally designated underserved areas. The program also delivers needed services to communities immediately as each family medicine resident provides an average of at least 600 primary care patient visits per year. Likewise, this program has significant long-term benefits for communities in which residents train, as the majority of residents stay and practice in those communities. The Song-Brown program is the only state physician training program to provide incentives to programs to train underrepresented physicians.

Many of the family physician practices that are also an essential part of California’s primary care infrastructure are struggling. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant flaws in our health care system that have hurt primary care practices. Direct support for primary care providers is critically needed to protect a vital part of front-line care, protect against future spikes in health care costs, and prevent failures in care delivery.

We hope the Legislature’s and Governor’s support for the critical primary care services California depends on will extend to support for the Care for Californians plan. The legislation would require the State to take three crucial actions that will help support these vulnerable primary care practices:

1) Provide immediate payment reform and support for a portion of primary care practices.

2) Establish a reconciliation process to ensure payments do not result in undue compensation.

3) Ensure a successful transition to sufficient support and value-based payment for primary care.

“The threat to primary care physician practices is immediate and severe, and the impact of practice closures will be long-lasting and incredibly detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve.,” said CAFP President, David Bazzo, MD, noting that, “A recently released national study says that almost 80 percent of primary care clinicians are experiencing ‘severe’ or ‘close to severe’ strain as a direct result of COVID-19.”

“Health plans have been taking premium dollars for months without spending them on care – they should be directing resources to ensure our primary care providers are still around when patients go back for care,” said CAFP CEO, Lisa Folberg. “Family physicians, in addition to being the backbone of our healthcare ecosystem, are often small businesses. We need to do more to ensure these frontline physicians are able to keep their doors open. “

 

Again, we recognize the agonizing decisions our lawmakers face as the COVID-19 Pandemic has wreaked havoc on state finances. The 11,000 members of the CAFP and the millions of patients we serve thank you for protecting crucial primary care infrastructure in the State Budget. We urge lawmakers to ask health plans to do the same by using some of the premium dollars that have already been paid to support primary care practices and ensure these physician practices are there to take care of Californians when they need them.

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