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How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. How can virtual care enable this? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Teladoc eyes hospital growth, says primary care is 'just the beginning'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an earnings report released this week from Teladoc Health, the telehealth giant reported 81% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter to $522 million. The company also pointed to what it called "significant new agreements" with CVS Health and Centene to provide its primary care offering, Primary360.

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Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD ( @catalysthg ) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care. ”. Primary care providers face a unique dichotomy: Never have they been more valuable… and never has their future been more uncertain. But to what end?

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How telehealth is starting to reshape primary care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At Columbia, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, "we’re on a journey pursuing aspects of digital health," said Dr. Mark Wess, the health system's vice president and chief health information executive. "The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those."

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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More hybrid virtual care and asynchronous telemedicine on the way for 2024

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now that telemedicine is a mainstream method for healthcare delivery, C-suite executives and health IT leaders at provider organizations must keep a sharp eye on trends in virtual care. We discussed further adoption, the hybrid care model , chronic care management, worksite healthy clinics and asynchronous telemedicine.

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million.