As the COVID-19 static clears and the new year brings new developments, video is increasingly becoming a key element of healthcare delivery for patients, providers and insurers alike. As a result, telehealth now sits at the intersection of patient experience and provider efficiency, making digital...
The celebrity cage match featuring Amazon and Walmart is carrying over into healthcare big time as the two retail rivals push further into health technologies, pharmacy and treatment. The American Hospital Association (AHA) summed it up well in a recent blog post, saying, “If 2021...
In the healthcare industry, there’s a lot of data that goes back and forth between providers and payers. As a result, data management is a key infrastructure issue in the healthcare industry. When an insurer or other payer’s staff can spend less time with their...
Signaling a sense that telehealth can reach and help patients in ways the healthcare system perhaps wasn’t before, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), is putting millions more in grants into it. On Monday...
Walgreens Boots Alliance and VillageMD plan to open five Jacksonville-area Village Medical at Walgreens coordinated primary care practices by the end of the summer, making it the third major city in the Sunshine State to be home to the facilities, according to a Wednesday (Feb....
Starting a healthcare practice is a costly, protracted process that takes 15 months and $15 million by some estimates just to get up and running. It’s utterly out of step with pandemic-era needs. With everything — including healthcare — moving to omnichannel approaches using platform...
The pandemic has exposed a lot of weak links in healthcare, and identity is a big one. Healthcare providers float on oceans of sensitive patient data that is not only a glaring fraud risk, but also injects massive inefficiency into an overburdened system. Issues of...
Amid a global health crisis unlike any in memory, healthcare is undergoing new treatments of its own, chief among them the expansion of cost-conscious, value-based care models. By linking treatments to results — in short, delivering more patient and insurer value for the dollar by improving...
Among all the disjointed, untidy processes exposed by the pandemic, ironically, healthcare itself is a prime example in the bad process parade — especially when it comes to paying medical bills. As patients shoulder more financial responsibility, they’re more likely to dread the uncertainty of...
