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CVS Health to Acquire Oak Street Health

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition further advances CVS Health’s care delivery strategy for consumers CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS ) and Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH ) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6

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Payviders and Their Growing Impact on Healthcare

BHM Healthcare Solutions

This can help reduce costs and im prove the overall patient experience. For example, if these organizations are incentivized to provide less care to patients in order to save money on insurance costs, this could compromise the quality of care that patients receive.

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Covenant Health uses telemedicine to get specialists to rural areas – and much more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center.

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OpenNotes site upgrades its literature search, to help authors and educators find relevant papers

Society for Participatory Medicine

Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?” ” Not surprisingly, this site has often blogged about OpenNotes , starting with the initial research study from 2010-2012 that proved the world doesn’t end when patients see their notes.

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Telehealth Awareness, Access and Adoption: Updates from J.D. Power, the ATA and FAIR Health

Health Populi

I addressed this as an emerging opportunity in 2012 in The Online Couch , a report I wrote for the California Healthcare Foundation documenting the need and growing supply side for telemental health services. health care system.

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Brigham and Women’s Primary Practice Pilots New Mobile App to Drive Patient Engagement & Collaborative Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Twine Health Mobile App Engages Patients with Chronic Conditions The story about the health decline of our citizens is being told everywhere. According to the CDC website, “as of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—have one or more chronic health conditions. Hypertensive Patient Pilot.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D.,