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Physicians Realty Trust Reports Fourth Quarter and Year Ended 2023 Financial Results

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) (the “Company,” the “Trust,” “we,” “our” and “us”), a self-managed health care real estate investment trust, today announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023.

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  • Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) (the “Company,” the “Trust,” “we,” “our” and “us”), a self-managed health care real estate investment trust, today announced results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023.
  • Total revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023, was $135.5 million, an increase of 2.2% from the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022.
  • Total expenses for the fourth quarter 2023 were $128.2 million, compared to total expenses of $120.3 million for the fourth quarter 2022.
  • Net income for the fourth quarter 2023 was $7.1 million, compared to net income of $11.9 million for the fourth quarter 2022.

Arrive Working with Indiana Hospitals to Improve Efficiency, Safety and Security

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Monday, October 9, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS and VINCENNES, Ind., Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrive, the global market leader in the smart mailbox space, is working with Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., and Community Health Network in central Indiana to pilot the use of its Mailbox-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform and will demonstrate its use at both facilities in early November.

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  • The drone will drop the samples into an Arrive smart mailbox outside the hospitals.
  • "We are very pleased to be working with innovation-focused healthcare executives to showcase just how transformational an autonomous delivery system can be," said Arrive President and CEO Dan O'Toole.
  • Thacker said this pilot project with Arrive will enable him to determine how autonomous delivery could bring efficiencies and improve service delivery.
  • The Arrive MaaS platform leverages breakthrough technology in automation and AI to deliver both cost-savings and service improvements.

Community Health Network Transforms Experience With Qualtrics

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, today announced that Community Health Network transformed its approach to experience management and resulted in meaningful improvements, including a 300% increase in patient response rates.

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  • Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, today announced that Community Health Network transformed its approach to experience management and resulted in meaningful improvements, including a 300% increase in patient response rates.
  • Community Health Network decided to partner with Qualtrics in 2020 to launch a multi-year, organization-wide experience management strategy.
  • Automated feedback workflows and processes help Community Health Network identify and respond to individual patient experience needs at scale.
  • For example, automated workflows enabled by Qualtrics help Community Health Network automatically connect patients to secondary care to prevent network leakage and automatically suggest patients sign up for Epic's MyChart patient portal application.

New Chief Health Officer/Chief Medical Officer at Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) to Lead Whole-Person Care Delivery

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) , the not-for-profit Washington-based managed-care organization, has hired Demetria Malloy, MD, MSHS as the new Chief Health Officer/Chief Medical Officer.

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  • Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) , the not-for-profit Washington-based managed-care organization, has hired Demetria Malloy, MD, MSHS as the new Chief Health Officer/Chief Medical Officer.
  • CHPW currently cares for more than 300,000 Washingtonians who have its Apple Health (Medicaid), Medicare Advantage, and public-option Individual and Family health plans.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230719310397/en/
    Demetria Malloy, MD, MSHS, has been hired as the new Chief Health Officer/Chief Medical Officer for not-for-profit Washington-based managed-care organization Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW).
  • “I am very excited to be joining Community Health Plan of Washington to build on its focus on innovative care solutions for members, especially for those experiencing the greatest health disparities,” said Malloy.

DexCare Reports Banner Year: Expands Access to Care to Millions of Patients and Maintains Rapid Company Growth

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Monday, May 1, 2023

DexCare’s platform, which optimizes care discovery and access for patients, while balancing system capacity, helped its healthcare partners expand the markets they serve, reach millions of patients and save thousands of critical provider hours.

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  • DexCare’s platform, which optimizes care discovery and access for patients, while balancing system capacity, helped its healthcare partners expand the markets they serve, reach millions of patients and save thousands of critical provider hours.
  • This led to a growth in markets served by 34 percent, reaching more than 57 million patients across all 50 states.
  • “Virtual care creates a unique opportunity to establish a digital connection that can turn into a physical one,” said Streat.
  • Where digital and physical care converge, the DexCare platform deploys resources to meet demand, providing a comprehensive approach to managing health."

FDB Marks Achievements in Optimizing Medication CDS through a Patient-Centric Approach at HIMSS23

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, will have a strong presence at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, April 17-20, with a focus on FDB PatientFirst™ solutions. FDB will be showcasing how these solutions are helping hospitals and health systems optimize medication decision support to amplify alerts that are most relevant to the patient at hand while decreasing overall alert volume through a patient-centric approach.

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  • Medication alerts prompt clinicians to review potential safety issues, such as contraindicated drug combinations and drug-allergy conflicts.
  • FDB PatientFirst solutions, which include FDB Targeted Medication Warnings™ and FDB Pharmacogenomic CDS , draw upon patient data and trusted FDB drug data to help narrow the instances when these alerts will fire in the electronic health record.
  • FDB CDS Analytics™ , a capability offered within FDB Targeted Medication Warnings, helps health systems identify alerts for optimization based on the frequency of clinician override or acceptance, and to monitor the performance of alerts.
  • The FDB team will be on hand at booth #1920 in the HIMSS23 Exhibit Hall to answer attendees' questions and discuss their organizations' medication decision support challenges.

HIMSS23: Community Health Network Reduces Medication Warnings by 250K & Increases Alert Acceptance Using FDB PatientFirst™ Solutions

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Thursday, April 6, 2023

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, announced today that its customer Community Health Network, a nine-hospital health system in Central Indiana, will deliver an educational session at HIMSS23.

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  • By modifying these 10 alerts in the first year, Community Health Network reduced medication alert volume by 250,000 while decreasing the rate at which clinicians override such alerts from 92% to 76%.
  • Community Health Network is a growing, non-profit, integrated delivery network with more than 200 sites of care throughout its region including surgery centers, home care services, MedChecks, behavioral health, and employer health services.
  • To tackle this now more pressing alert challenge, Community extended its alert optimization initiative to include medication alerts and partnered with FDB to deploy FDB Targeted Medication Warnings with FDB CDS Analytics to help make these alerts more patient-specific and actionable.
  • This guidance reduces alert fatigue and helps caregivers take more meaningful action at the right moment in their workflow.

ConferMED, through Grant from the Quest Diagnostics Foundation, now Providing Specialty eConsults to Front Line Primary Care Providers at Federally Qualified Health Centers in Five Key Metropolitan Areas

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConferMED, one of the nation's leading eConsult companies, announced today it is providing specialty eConsults to eligible Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in cities serving close to 400,000 uninsured and underinsured patients through a $2.3M grant from the Quest Diagnostics Foundation.  The grant is part of the foundation's Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE) initiative and is being provided to ConferMED's Advancing Health Equity Project to address a leading cause of health inequity: lack of access to specialty care. FQHCs in Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Houston, TX and Boston, MA are eligible for the program. To date, 15 health centers in the targeted regions have signed up for services.

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  • To date, 15 health centers in the targeted regions have signed up for services.
  • The Quest funding is enabling ConferMED specialists to consult virtually with primary care providers at these health centers to help quickly resolve specialty cases.
  • Specialty eConsults save patients and participating providers time and money, increase access to care in areas where specialty care services are limited, and improve health outcomes for underserved patients.
  • Providers can also be assured that their patients are getting the specialty services they need to achieve optimal care outcomes."

Community Health Plan of Washington Donates $250,000 to Support Equal Access to Care

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

The investment aims to support these organizations work addressing all aspects of health, including systemic social drivers of health*, and improve health outcomes.

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  • The investment aims to support these organizations work addressing all aspects of health, including systemic social drivers of health*, and improve health outcomes.
  • While the pandemic most recently brought inequities in health care specifically experienced by people of color to the forefront of our national consciousness, CHPW has been working side-by-side with our community health centers, other providers, and community-based and partner organizations to advance health equity for 30 years, said Leanne Berge, CEO of Community Health Plan of Washington and its parent Community Health Network of Washington.
  • "We are so thankful and grateful for the work Community Health Plan of Washington continues to do to bridge the gaps between minority groups and adequate health, said Mary Kasagga, Pacific Northwest Uganda American Association (PNUAA) Secretary.
  • The following community-based organizations will each receive $10,000 from Community Health Plan of Washington in 2022:

DexCare and WompHealth Combine to Bring the Best of eCommerce to Healthcare While Creating New Digital Discovery Solutions

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

WompHealth applies groundbreaking online shopping technology to empower health systems to deliver frictionless, intuitive digital experiences for consumers.

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  • WompHealth applies groundbreaking online shopping technology to empower health systems to deliver frictionless, intuitive digital experiences for consumers.
  • Womp CEO, Madison Miner, and his team bring with them decades of eCommerce experience, digitally-transforming some of the countrys largest brands, both within healthcare and elsewhere.
  • The combination of DexCare and Womp coincides with the consumerization of healthcare access, a sea change occurring throughout the industry.
  • DexCare powers the digital engine of leading health systems across the U.S., including Kaiser, Houston Methodist, Mass General Brigham and others.