Providing proactive and preventive health-focused living among younger, less affluent senior populations -- and extending this into value-based care -- just makes sense.
This week at HLTH, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf discussed the current state of healthcare AI. He talked about some of the qualms he has, such as his worry that AI is worsening health inequities and his concern that providers aren’t capable of validating AI tools’ effectiveness.
The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high.
Recent failures in the retail health space beg the question: Is primary care only suited to remain within traditional players? Four healthcare executives shared their responses to this question during a panel at HLTH in Las Vegas.
Many primary care physicians are not participating in value-based payment models. A new study details why and potential solutions.
Retailers aren’t giving up on healthcare — but they are trying to be more strategic in their efforts to disrupt the space. As these companies re-strategize, experts think they need to center their efforts on building trust and fostering long-term patient engagement.
The Salt Lake City health system will pilot NeuroFlow's behavioral health tech platform and services in five primary care locations in Colorado. The first step is to integrate technology into its Epic EHR but the broader goal is to create the mechanism by which behavioral healthcare can be standardized and measured.
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Through a new partnership, Cityblock will offer medical and behavioral health services to members with serious mental illness or substance use disorder in Alliance Health’s Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Development Disability Tailored Plan.
HarmonyCares raised $200 million dollars to scale its in-home primary care delivery model for high-risk senior patients. The money will be used to expand HarmonyCares’ market reach, particularly in the Medicare Advantage space — even as health systems continue to drop their MA contracts.
Primary care physicians are generally pretty optimistic about AI’s potential to make care delivery more efficient, according to new survey results. In the past few years, automated dictation and scribing tools were the AI technologies that have been most impactful for primary care providers.
K Health closed a $50 million equity funding round, which brought its total fundraising amount to $380 million and propelled the startup to a $900 million valuation. The company, which was founded in 2016, uses AI to educate patients about their symptoms and connect them to primary care.
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One emerging model brings hope for independent primary care in a rapidly transforming healthcare landscape.
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Centivo, a health plan that sells to self-funded employers, acquired virtual-first primary care startup Eden Health. With this acquisition, Centivo now serves more than 160 employers in all 50 states.
Increasingly, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are joining cardiology, dermatology, and other specialty practices, broadening their skills and increasing their income. This development worries some people who track the health workforce, because current trends suggest primary care, soon might not be able to rely on them to mitigate the physician shortage.
No matter what form they take, one thing is clear — there is an urgent demand for digital primary care providers to guide patient navigation in the digital health era.