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The successes – and pitfalls – of using telehealth for home-based primary care

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Home-based primary care allows individuals with chronic conditions – especially older people – to stay in their homes longer, reducing hospitalization rates and improving quality of life. As the COVID-19 crisis has made evident, telehealth can be a useful tool to help connect patients with services remotely.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Walmart In Talks to Acquire ChenMed

Digital Health Wire

Here’s a quick primer on Walmart’s healthcare strategy, which so-far can be bucketed into three themes: Medicare and MA health plans, primary care, and employer virtual care. Back in 2018, Walmart looked into making one of the grandest entrances to the market imaginable with a $67B acquisition of Humana.

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UpStream Raises $140 Million Series B Round to Scale Value-Based Care Model Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

More than 2,900 physicians providing care to 175,000 senior patients now leverage UpStream’s unique platform to ensure better patient outcomes and improve their financial performance. “Primary care physicians are an integral part of the U.S.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

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Beyond the sheer scale of patient volumes reached during the pandemic, virtual care was adopted by physicians across specialties well beyond primary care. physicians worked in a practice that used telehealth versus 25% who did so in 2018, based on a new survey from the AMA. In 2020, 79% of U.S.

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

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Today, fewer than 1% of Medicare beneficiaries have had any telehealth encounter, Kaveh explained, and fewer than one in eight doctors are aware of offering telehealth in their practice. Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S.

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Cigna and Humana Eye Blockbuster Merger

Digital Health Wire

The acquisition of Express Scripts in 2018 also made Cigna one of the biggest names in pharmacy benefits, and its Evernorth health services arm has been adding more fuel to the fire. The glaring white space in that portfolio happens to be one of the biggest growth engines for insurers, the Medicare segment.