What You Should Know:
- TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced the launch of the Home Smart Clinic, a multi-pronged offering delivering health plans and providers a comprehensive range of elements required to launch a truly successful virtual care program without compromises.
- The Home Smart Clinic is proven to reduce the total cost of care (TCC) for health plans by 10% on average, to deliver 59% more accurate diagnoses
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Rock Health Reveals 4 2022 Digital Health M&A Trends to Watch
What You Should Know:
- The choppy waters of this year’s market have forced a significant slowdown in digital health investment, but buyers and builders alike are seizing the moment to consider mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as strategic opportunities.
- In their latest report, Rock Health explores the sell-side and buy-side dynamics that are making conditions ripe for M&A activity and dig into four M&A approaches being pursued by acquirers in this market moment.
Key
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How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities
Modern healthcare is an intricate dance between quality and quantity.
Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for.
To understand how we can satisfy the needs of both patients and payers, we’ll have to take a step back and look at the relationship between payer communities and telehealth services.
Behavioral
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Report: Virtual Care Still in ‘Wild West’ Days Sparking Confusion, High Optimism, Investment
What You Should Know:
- A new "State of Virtual Care" report by Omada Health and Digital Medicine Society, in collaboration with Rock Health, reveals that buyers today are inundated with vendors labeling themselves “virtual care providers,” regardless of the care model they’re selling. This phenomenon is blurring their perception of V1C’s potential impact, and what that means for improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes.
- V1C solutions like Omada Health are changing the market,
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Parkview Health Launches Virtual Care Offering, Powered by Veta Health
What You Should Know:
- Veta Health announced today the launch of its virtual care offering at Parkview Health (Parkview), a not-for-profit, Indiana-based network of 10 hospitals and more than 100 clinics.
- In partnership with Veta Health, Parkview will offer its patients virtual care programs designed to support patient recovery and self-management at home. The initial focus is utilizing Veta Health’s patient engagement, device-based monitoring, and telehealth tools to manage patients
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth Over In-Office Visits for Routine Care
What You Should Know:
- The popularity of telehealth remains strong – and even the top choice among consumers needing routine medical care, according to a recent survey of individuals who previously had at least one telehealth visit.
- Regardless of the type of virtual care, nearly all participants of the survey, sponsored by KeyCare, stated it was important that both their regular doctor and their telehealth provider had access to their health records for sharing critical data such
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know:
- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Healthcare Payments: 3 Ways to Make the Experience Better for Patients and Providers Alike
The past few years have seen an enormous acceleration in the adoption of technologies that streamline and modernize payments across all industries. As embedded finance becomes more popular and companies begin to embrace automation technologies, there’s a clear opportunity for healthcare providers to embrace digital payments. Through the use of digital payment technology, healthcare professionals can make their services easier for their vendors, suppliers and patients.
Simplifying the Patient
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow.
To truly
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First-Ever Medicare Advantage Plan for LGBTQ+ Older Adults Launches
What You Should Know:
- SCAN Health Plan, a Medicare Advantage insurer known for its expertise in keeping older adults healthy and independent is launching SCAN Affirm partnered with Included LGBTQ+ Health (HMO), a first-of-its-kind Medicare Advantage plan developed exclusively for LGBTQ+ older adults, in collaboration with Included Health, the only integrated virtual care and navigation platform.
- SCAN Health Plan will offer the SCAN Affirm plan to members in
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