The patient's voice should be an entry point and not a barrier to better compliance and health outcomes. A nurse practitioner outlines a protocol for a frank exam-room exchange that sustains cultural humility.
To give patients the care they deserve and improve healthcare’s return on investment, PCPs can harness intelligent, clinically fluent AI – not to replace or override physicians or give them what tech companies think they need, but to support them in pragmatic ways.
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
This is not a debate about care models or physician preferences. It is a contest over who will control the referral pathways and the revenue streams that originate at the front door of healthcare.
Premise Health and Crossover Health are merging to create a nearly $2 billion company. The partners plan to scale advanced primary care — an integrated bundle of primary care, behavioral health, pharmacy services and care navigation — for large self-insured employers.
The solution isn't about creating more referral pathways, but about building the measurement infrastructure that enables excellent primary care providers to act confidently on their observations.
The future of primary care will be collaborative by design. Clinicians will continue to be the first call and the trusted guide, but they will be supported by scientific partners who shorten the distance between breakthrough and bedside.
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
HealthTap and Samsung Health have partnered to offer virtual primary and urgent care within the Samsung Health app.
With staffing shortages, historic burnout, and rising costs, concierge medicine — and direct primary care (DPC) — have moved from the margins into the middle of the retention conversation.
HealthTap is now offering virtual primary care for patients with diabetes on LillyDirect, becoming the platform’s first primary care provider.
Since practices tend to build more flexibility into APPs’ schedules, they can efficiently expand patients’ access to care while allowing physicians to focus on more complex patients.
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
The transformation of our healthcare system can start now, with employers adopting value-based care models, communities demanding better access, and policymakers challenging the status quo.
This is not a burden primary care should bear alone. It’s an opportunity to strengthen the connection between mental health providers and medical professionals and build a care model that reflects how people actually seek help.
By embedding AI into primary care workflows, clinicians can validate their decisions and make more accurate and timely diagnoses, ensuring that patients receive the care they need without unnecessary delays.
German medical device company seca released the first portable body composition scanner designed for primary care. The scanner seeks to give primary care providers a more accurate picture of their patient’s health, as well as help them spot certain conditions — such as sarcopenia, obesity and metabolic disorders — earlier.
OhioHealth is scaling its use of Digital Diagnostics’ AI system that autonomously diagnoses diabetic retinopathy during primary care visits.