primary care
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Preserving the Pillars: The Vital Role of Independent Primary Care in American Healthcare
The future of American healthcare hinges on the continued support and elevation of independent primary care—a cornerstone that not only enhances healthcare quality and cost controls but also ensures a healthier and more equitable future for all.
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Elation Health’s New Integration Brings Drug Pricing Transparency to the Point of Care for PCPs
Elation Health integrated Surescripts’ real-time prescription benefit tool — which gives clinicians immediate access to patient-specific medication coverage and cost data — into its EHR. The partnership aims to improve patients’ medication adherence by helping primary care physicians have more meaningful conversations with their patients about prescription affordability during visits.
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Why Experts Saw Cano Health’s Bankruptcy Coming From A Mile Away
Cano Health filed for bankruptcy this week — about three years after going public $4.4 billion SPAC merger. The industry reacted without surprise, with experts calling the bankruptcy a direct result of mismanagement, a quixotic growth strategy and poor market selection.
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What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health
Primary care is essential to living healthier lives, and we need all forms of it, from small local practices to big health systems and retail chains. Ultimately, it’s going to be all primary care hands on deck, working together to make a lasting change for the health of Americans.
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Startup Launches To Support Low-Income Patients with Complex Needs
Accompany Health launched Tuesday with $56 million in Series A funding. It offers primary and behavioral care for underserved patients. It also provides social care, such as food, housing and transportation assistance.
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Will We Close the Medicare Advantage Primary Care Gap in 2024?
Medicare Advantage patients without a primary care physician are perhaps the greatest risk to health plans in 2024. Health plans must adopt best practices to reach and engage MA patients, especially those with multiple, complex conditions. Here are six best practices to consider.
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Knownwell Secures $20M for Weight-Inclusive Primary Care
Knownwell’s $20 million Series A funding round was led by A16Z and included participation from Flare Capital Partners. The company also launched an adolescent metabolic health program.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech, Hospitals
Why 1 Health System Is Embedding Genomics Into Primary Care
At Northshore–Edward Elmhurst Health, all patients are offered genetic testing as part of their primary care visit. This helps clinicians create more personalized care plans and facilitates earlier disease diagnoses, said Kristen Murtos, the health system’s chief innovation and transformation officer.
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Team-Based Primary Care Offers a Solution for an Underachieving Healthcare System
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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Why 2 CEOs Are Clamoring For New Primary Care Payment Models
Fee-for-services payment models in the primary care ecosystem are doing a poor job of keeping Americans healthy and reducing the nation’s massive amount of healthcare spending, two CEOs of primary care companies said during a recent webinar. They argued that stakeholders in the primary care space need to come together to support more value-based care arrangements to reduce costs, advance population health and improve the patient experience.
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Nurse Practitioners’ Starting Salaries Are Rising Faster Than Those of Primary Care Physicians
As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more primary care assets, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of nurse practitioners, this rise in demand is also boosting their salaries. Physicians’ starting salaries have remained relatively flat, but their average signing bonus grew.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Startups
Suvida Healthcare Taps Elation EHR to Help Power Care for Hispanic Seniors
Suvida Healthcare — a startup providing primary care for Medicare-eligible Hispanic adults — is adopting Elation Health’s primary care-specific technology platform. The platform comprises an EHR, as well as software for patient engagement, telehealth and revenue cycle management. Suvida’s chief medical officer said Elation beat out the competition due to its focus on both primary care and value-based care.
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Herself Health Secures $26M To Bring Primary Care to Women Ages 65+
Herself Health’s $26 million Series A funding round was led by Michael Cline, founding managing partner of Accretive, and included participation from Juxtapose. It comes six months after Herself Health raised $7 million in seed funding. In total, the company has raised $33 million.
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Zocdoc, Elation Health Partner to Increase Access to PCPs
Zocdoc recently struck a partnership with Elation Health to increase patients’ access to care. Now, any provider who uses Elation’s primary care-specific EHR can integrate their calendar into Zocdoc’s platform — meaning that the millions of patients who search for care via Zocdoc each month will have access to these providers’ real-time appointment availability.
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Aledade Rakes in $260M for Primary Care Network
Aledade’s $260 million financing round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, a new investor of the company. It also included participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity and Fidelity Management and Research Company.