Healthcare IT News September 15, 2025
The sprawling health system has a wide variety of virtual care wins, with accomplishments including some 2 million virtual visits annually – including a successful primary care program and more than 20,000 hospital-at-home patients.
Advocate Health – the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, serving nearly 6 million patients – has had access challenges similar to those facing most other healthcare providers and patients.
THE CHALLENGE
The bottom line is there is a supply and demand mismatch where there are not enough clinicians – and visits with those clinicians – to meet the needs for all of those in the communities Advocate Health serves.
Part of that is because of a gap in the absolute number of clinicians...







