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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

The worst-case scenario for insurance companies would be if Haven successfully negotiates directly with health providers on behalf of its employer group — a tough task for any venture, even one of Haven’s stature. The centers see more than 600,000 visits per year, more than 100 of which involve potentially life-threatening issues, he wrote.

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