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Towards a future for semi-autonomous AI-powered primary care providers

KevinMD

OCTOBER 14, 2024

billion people do not have access to primary care. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 4.5

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Envisioning the delivery of true primary care telehealth

KevinMD

AUGUST 6, 2020

Almost overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted how we deliver primary care to patients. Before the pandemic, telehealth seemed to be a way to deliver urgent care for acute issues to a select group of tech-savvy patients. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Flip the axis: Primary care rotations

KevinMD

JUNE 13, 2022

Primary care is foundational to the U.S. Whether students are interested in medicine, nursing, social work or pharmacy — it is critical that we share the exciting aspects of primary care and then adequately prepare them to work in the field. Flip the axis: Primary care rotations originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Americans who have commercial health insurance (say, through an employer or union) are rarely thought to face barriers to receiving health care — in particular, primary care, that front line provider and on-ramp to the health care system. So what is primary care, anyway? visits per 100 member-years.

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Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth Health Policy

Big Idea: Primary Care Automation

Healthcare automation that gives primary care providers more time with their patients—and less on screens—can improve care for patients, increase satisfaction for providers, and deliver positive bottom-line results for system leaders.

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Provider startups go virtual to tackle chronic conditions, primary care in 2021

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2021

After another rough year for the healthcare system, startups are using the growth of virtual care to manage chronic conditions and expand primary care.

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Could more options push patients back to primary care?

Mobi Health News

MARCH 29, 2023

Panelists at ViVE 2023 discussed the future of preventive medicine as retail chains and virtual care players push into the space and more patients avoid primary care altogether.

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Artificial intelligence: Revolutionizing patient education in primary care

KevinMD

MAY 11, 2024

The days of turning to Google for medical questions are becoming fewer and far between as large language models such as ChatGPT or Bing chatbot are helping to create personalized and comprehensive responses to Read more… Artificial intelligence: Revolutionizing patient education in primary care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Teladoc Health, HealthJoy expand partnership to include virtual primary care

Mobi Health News

MAY 11, 2023

Employers will have access to Teladoc's virtual primary care services through HealthJoy's care navigation platform.

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Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care!

The primary care system is failing patients and providers. Capacity shortages have led to long wait times and physician burnout. To fix the system, we must find innovative ways to boost capacity and meet patient-consumers’ shifting expectations.

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Amazon's One Medical partners with Rightway to expand primary care access

Mobi Health News

MAY 18, 2023

Rightway will integrate One Medical into its RightwayHub to broaden employee access to primary care services.

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WHO releases handbook for digital transformation in primary care

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The guidance aims to help countries move toward healthcare digitization through a person-centered point of service system.

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Primary care's digital metamorphosis

Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2022

Today at Accelerate Health at HIMSS22, executives discuss how digital modalities can move the dial on patient care.

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HealthTap now accepts insurance for virtual primary care services

Mobi Health News

JUNE 17, 2024

The company is now an in-network provider with numerous insurers and commercial and Medicare Advantage plans, expanding its reach to all 50 states.

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Amazon to acquire primary care company One Medical for $3.9B

Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2022

"We think healthcare is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention," Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement.

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New primary care decision support tools make offloading below-license tasks from the EHR more important than ever

KevinMD

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the late 1800s, the telephone created unexpected challenges in medical practice at its inception; it brought Read more… New primary care decision support tools make offloading below-license tasks from the EHR more important than ever originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That is the profound connection between clinicians and patients that contributes to burnout and eroding morale — especially in primary care. Strong primary care backbones for all health citizens. patients had regular sources of primary care in 2023. BDO notes that only 2 in 3 U.S. In the current U.S.

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AI-enabled virtual primary care provider K Health secures $50M

Mobi Health News

JULY 2, 2024

The company will use the funds to scale its growth within healthcare systems and expand its AI innovation.

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Direct primary care startup Hint Health raises $45M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

JUNE 2, 2022

Also: Autism-focused SpectrumAi and cancer clinical trial platform Massive Bio both scooped up $9 million.

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Hint Health acquires direct primary care software company AeroDPC

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

AeroDPC will operate as a subsidiary of Hint Health immediately following the deal. In 2023, the company plans to release a new product combining AeroDPC and HintOS capabilities.

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Roundup: Tend Health's online primary care clinic goes live and more briefs

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Also, HCF has introduced Australia's first QR-based mode of insurance claiming and payments.

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Hopper Health launches to offer primary care for neurodivergent adults

Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2023

The platform connects adults with conditions like autism, ADHD, OCD or Tourette's with care teams trained to help with their specific needs.

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Primary care tech company Elation Health acquires billing platform Lightning MD

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Elation said it would offer a product that includes Lightning MD's tools in beta starting this summer.

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Primary care start-ups clash on the role of insurance in the future of care

Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At a virtual TechCrunch Disrupt panel, one CEO leveled accusations of selling out, while others cried elitism.

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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2024

Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. Virtual primary care, experts say, can address challenges in traditional care by filling existing care gaps and offering various benefits to healthcare organizations, providers and patients.

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Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Health Populi

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Zocdoc learned the top reasons consumers booked medical appointments were for primary care, such as getting an annual physical or women’s preventive care services (e.g., The post Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Primary care player Forward shutters after raising $400M, rolling out CarePods

FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Primary care player Forward is abruptly shutting down its operations, closing its locations and canceling scheduled visits, the company publicly announced Wednesday. Primary care player Forward is abruptly shutting down its operations, closing its locations and canceling scheduled visits, the company publicly announced Wednesday.

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Primary care market will see major shifts by 2030 as payers, nontraditional providers gain ground

FierceHealthIT

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Two years ago, Bain and Company forecasted ma | Nontraditional providers will account for about one-third of the primary care market in 2030, according to Bain and Company. Payer-owned primary care, population-focused models and advanced primary care providers are all poised for growth.

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Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

JULY 21, 2021

Also: digital chatbot Woebot raises $90M in Series B, b.well lands $32M for company growth and CITYROW closes Series A to enhance its digital platform and open new studios.

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Digital primary care startup K Health raises $50M in equity funding round

FierceHealthIT

JULY 1, 2024

Digital primary care startup K Health raised $50 million in an equity funding round to build out its AI-powered medical services and fuel its growth, the company announced Monday.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to launch virtual primary care with Carbon Health, Firefly Health

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The insurer said the new offering will be included in the majority of its commercial health plans.

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Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic to open primary care clinics in Northeast Ohio

FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Academic health system Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with an industry disruptor to expand primary care services in Northeast Ohio. Academic health system Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with an industry disruptor to expand primary care services in Northeast Ohio.

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China to pilot standards for virtual primary care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Chinese government is promoting the family doctor service to make high-quality primary care services more accessible to the general population and help decongest hospitals. In 2013, family doctor contract services were piloted in rural areas before its nationwide implementation in 2016.

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Industry Voices—Strategies to stem losses of America's primary care doctors

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

found himself swept up in the same current so many newly trained family physicians are in upon graduating from residency: employed by the health system where he previously tr | There is no single solution to this primary care shortage. Charles Jantzen, M.D.,

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Hackensack Meridian Health inks partnership with K Health to roll out virtual primary care service

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health is teaming up with K Health to launch a new 24/7 virtual primary care service to provide easier access to the health system's clinicians. |

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Walmart looks to virtual care with acquisition of telemedicine company MeMD

Mobi Health News

MAY 7, 2021

With this acquisition, Walmart Health will add nationwide virtual care options across primary care, urgent care and behavioral health to its clinics' service portfolio.

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Doctors are burdened by documentation, are AI scribes the answer?

Mobi Health News

JULY 15, 2020

Matthew Fradkin, a pediatrician at Swedish Primary Care and Providence St. Joseph, discusses his work implementing an ambient scribe in his workflow at HIMSS20 Digital.

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HLTH24: Execs weigh in on what is broken in primary care and what's working

FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Everyone agrees primary care is crucial to a functioning healthcare ecosystem and to a healthy society. Everyone agrees primary care is crucial, yet it isn't working as well as it should be.

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NeuroFlow, Intermountain will screen for behavioral health needs in Colorado

Mobi Health News

JULY 18, 2024

The digital health company will assist the healthcare system in identifying patients needing behavioral health services within its primary care population.

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Primary Care Digital Health

Digital Dermatology pathway for primary care launched in Scotland

DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

An app aimed to helping faster diagnosis and assessment of skin conditions is being rolled out across primary care in Scotland.

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Presbyterian Healthcare Services taps RhythmX AI to roll out gen AI copilots for primary care

FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

faces a critical shortage of primary care physicians, and the labor crunch is projected to get worse. | The company is working with New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services to pilot its primary care AI pilot.

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Why specialty health care should go virtual

KevinMD

JANUARY 25, 2020

“Let’s take a look together,” was the start of a virtual clinical assessment that led to a primary care provider and a neurologist diagnosing a patient with Parkinson’s Disease.

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Humber and North Yorkshire ICB signs N3i to digitise primary care

DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has signed technology firm N3i to help digitise its primary care services.

Primary Care

Towards a future for semi-autonomous AI-powered primary care providers

Envisioning the delivery of true primary care telehealth

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Flip the axis: Primary care rotations

What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Big Idea: Primary Care Automation

Provider startups go virtual to tackle chronic conditions, primary care in 2021

Could more options push patients back to primary care?

Artificial intelligence: Revolutionizing patient education in primary care

Teladoc Health, HealthJoy expand partnership to include virtual primary care

Primary Care Is Dead. Long Live Primary Care!

Amazon's One Medical partners with Rightway to expand primary care access

WHO releases handbook for digital transformation in primary care

Primary care's digital metamorphosis

HealthTap now accepts insurance for virtual primary care services

Amazon to acquire primary care company One Medical for $3.9B

New primary care decision support tools make offloading below-license tasks from the EHR more important than ever

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

Clinician Burnout – Lessons from BDO’s Clinician Experience Survey for Patient Experience and Primary Care

AI-enabled virtual primary care provider K Health secures $50M

Direct primary care startup Hint Health raises $45M and more digital health fundings

Hint Health acquires direct primary care software company AeroDPC

Roundup: Tend Health's online primary care clinic goes live and more briefs

Hopper Health launches to offer primary care for neurodivergent adults

Primary care tech company Elation Health acquires billing platform Lightning MD

Primary care start-ups clash on the role of insurance in the future of care

How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

Zocdoc Learns What Patients Want: Primary Care Access ASAP, and the Role of Women as Chief Health Officers

Primary care player Forward shutters after raising $400M, rolling out CarePods

Primary care market will see major shifts by 2030 as payers, nontraditional providers gain ground

Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings

Digital primary care startup K Health raises $50M in equity funding round

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to launch virtual primary care with Carbon Health, Firefly Health

Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic to open primary care clinics in Northeast Ohio

China to pilot standards for virtual primary care

Industry Voices—Strategies to stem losses of America's primary care doctors

Hackensack Meridian Health inks partnership with K Health to roll out virtual primary care service

Walmart looks to virtual care with acquisition of telemedicine company MeMD

Doctors are burdened by documentation, are AI scribes the answer?

HLTH24: Execs weigh in on what is broken in primary care and what's working

NeuroFlow, Intermountain will screen for behavioral health needs in Colorado

Digital Dermatology pathway for primary care launched in Scotland

Presbyterian Healthcare Services taps RhythmX AI to roll out gen AI copilots for primary care

Why specialty health care should go virtual

Humber and North Yorkshire ICB signs N3i to digitise primary care

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