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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

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I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primary care volumes in the U.S.

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GNC Offers “Free Healthcare” — Telehealth, Generic Meds, and Loyalty in the Retail Health Ecosystem

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in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. Cost, cost, cost, cost, and cost — above quality of care. GNC is channeling to the current concerns of health consumers… value in the eye of the beholder and medical bill payer.

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

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As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Outpatient is the New Inpatient – The Future of Hospitals in America

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Walmart recently opened the second health center, in Calhoun GA, where in the words of Bloomberg, a consumer could book a tele-mental health therapy visit for $1 a minute (that’s $60 for the initial intake session of 60 minutes and $45 for subsequent 45-minute therapy meet-ups).

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

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health care corresponds to the nation’s tremendous waste baked into the system when it comes to administration, fragmentation and dis-continuity of care, unsafe prescribing regimens, and under-investment in a strong primary care backbone. Our OECD peers generally invest more in primary care access than America does.

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Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

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Take Care Clinic concept into a service with private clinic rooms enabling consumers to meet with pharmacists to discuss prescription drugs, digital health tools (which Walgreens customers can score points from using via the Balance Rewards program), Becker’s reports from a Business Insider story.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

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Groundbreaking research presented at this week’s ASCO meeting found that some women diagnosed with certain forms of cancer do not benefit from undergoing chemotherapy. We hope the results and conclusions of the study are quickly adopted into everyday standard medical practice in primary care and oncology practices in the community.