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Primary Care 2.0 – How Crossover Health is “Re-Bundling” Health Care

Health Populi

These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D. published in 2001. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S. Kleinke noted in his book titled Oxymorons ….published

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Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Formed in 2001 as the eHealth Initiative, EHI has advocated for federal reimbursement for e-prescribing, EHR use, and telehealth, all while convening competitors to foster industry-wide collaboration. Included Health is partnering with Dispatch Health to connect virtual primary care to in-home urgent medical care.

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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

GlobalMed

But did you know virtual health is making a big impact on inmate care? When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. Improved Care.

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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

MeMD

Right on their heels is Gen Z, born between 2001 and 2020, the largest population segment in the U.S. Virtual Primary Care Leads to Better Health. But despite the important role of primary care, Millennials and Gen Z are far less likely than older generations to have a primary care provider.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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Proteus : What's gone wrong at the Billion Dollar Digital Health and Smart Pill Startup?

Lloyd Price

start-up, founded in 2001, had spent the ensuing decades developing a smart pill, a device designed to tell a smartphone app whether a patient has ingested a medicine. The Redwood City, Calif., Not every disease state is so clear, [certainly] not schizophrenia….We We felt that at Pear in the opioid-use disorder area.

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The Virtual Couch: Rise of the Digital Therapist

Lloyd Price

In fact, Freeman first began using VR in 2001 when he was working on paranoia. Ross and her colleague GP Alastair Dobbin had come up with the idea of making something similar for the health service, which could be use by primary care providers themselves and their patients.