What You Should Know:
- Fold Health,a San Francisco, CA-based platform supporting value-based primary care raises $6M in funding from Iron Pillar and global angel investors.
- Fold partners with leading value-based primary care groups, ACOs, health systems, health plans and digital health companies, to 10x the reach and effectiveness of collaborative care teams in their mission to radically improve outcomes.
Supercharge Primary Care
Despite the rapid shift to value-based
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Roundups: HealthJoy Expands Partnership With Teladoc Health, Oura, Other Strategic Partnerships
Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships:
HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care
HealthJoy, a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care. HealthJoy Virtual Primary Care, powered by Teladoc Health, provides a fully integrated primary care experience that supports members throughout their entire healthcare journey. The solution will further
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Emory Taps NeuroFlow to Scale Collaborative Care Model
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Emory Healthcare (EHC) today announced a partnership with NeuroFlow to support and improve the delivery of psychiatric services for both patients and providers at their Brain Health Center and several sites across Georgia.NeuroFlow, which offers a cloud-based registry and enterprise platform to help facilitate collaborative care, will support EHC clinical services’ data-driven approach to patient care, with a sharpened focus on improving communication
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TytoCare Report Reveals Providers’ Key to Virtual Care Adoption
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A new report released by TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement.While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when
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Elevating Workplace Safety to Combat Healthcare Violence Against Workers
The healthcare workforce is in crisis. From devastating staffing shortages to unmanageable levels of stress and burnout, today’s healthcare workers are desperate for some relief. Unfortunately, exacerbating these already significant challenges is an increasing rate of workplace violence in healthcare.
According to the results of a study published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, about one-third of public healthcare workers have experienced at least one incident
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Emcara Health Taps Innovaccer to Accelerate Scale in Value-Based Care
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Innovaccer Inc. announced that Emcara Health, PopHealthCare’s national value-based medical group that delivers advanced in-home primary care for seniors and vulnerable populations, has selected Innovaccer’s Best in KLAS data platform to accelerate its ability to drive growth and rapidly scale Emcara Health’s integrated care solution to more communities nationwide.The Innovaccer data platform will enhance Emcara Health’s ability to create unified patient records that
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Walmart Health Continues 2024 Expansion into Oklahoma
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Walmart Health announced its expansion into the state of Oklahoma, with four new health centers in the Oklahoma City area in 2024. This expansion into Oklahoma is a continuation of Walmart Health’s commitment to making quality healthcare more convenient, accessible and affordable for customers in the communities we serve.The new state-of-the-art facilities will be approximately 5,750 sq ft, located beside Walmart Supercenters, and will feature Walmart Health’s full suite
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide
Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide
What You Should Know:
Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, and Eden Health, a leading national virtual and in-person primary care provider, today announced a partnership to expand the Hint Connect footprint with a virtual DPC offering across all 50 states.This partnership allows employers to offer a DPC network nationwide for patients who don’t have convenient access
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Audio-Only Telehealth Remains Common at Safety Net Clinics, Study Finds
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Audio-only telehealth visits for both primary care and mental health services remained common at safety net clinics in California since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
The RAND study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that in August 2022 audio-only visits still accounted for 1 in 5 primary care visits and 2 in 5 behavioral health visits among people who received care at Federally
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