What You Should Know: - A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin. - Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023. Healthcare in the Era Post-Covid COVID-19
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Walmart Now Offering Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids
What You Should Know: - Today, Walmart announced it will begin offering over-the counter (OTC) hearing aids* at Walmart.com and Walmart Vision Centers in CO, MI, MO, OH, PA, TN and TX, and will soon be available at additional Walmart Vision Centers nationwide. - Walmart’s new offerings include an assortment of top brands like Lexie powered by Bose and HearX that will offer cutting-edge technology like
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Why Health Systems Need a New Transition Strategy to APMs
There is an adage that change in healthcare moves at the speed of tectonic plates. The slow adoption of Alternative Payment Models (APMs), the central feature of value-based care, is a good example of constraint despite immense pressure to control costs. Data from 2020 demonstrate almost zero change from 2018 in the proportion of straight Fee-for-Service (FFS) reimbursement. Other results show a slight uptick in APMs with or without downside risk at 34.6 percent. However,
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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review
Executive Summary Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation 2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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Walmart, Health at Scale Launch Personalized Provider Recommendations to Employees, Families
What You Should Know: - Today, Walmart and healthcare machine intelligence company Health at Scale announced a collaboration to provide personalized provider recommendations to Walmart employees and their families. - The U.S. healthcare system drives life-determining decisions, like doctor referrals, based on reputation rankings and star ratings on Google. Health at Scale’s technology uses advanced AI and machine learning – developed by a leading team of engineers from MIT, Harvard,
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Walmart Expands Partnership with Inovalon for Complete View of Patient Journey
What You Should Know: - Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare today announces an expansion of their partnership with Walmart Inc. - This new multi-year agreement will provide the retailer access to Inovalon’s industry-leading Data Insights solution enabling acceleration to a more patient-centric healthcare model through the application of large-scale analyses of aggregated, de-identified data. - Walmart has been working with Inovalon since
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Veta Health Apoints CEO, Walgreens Leadership Appointments, Walmart’s New VP, Other Executive Appointments
Veta Health, a global provider of digital solutions for remote patient care and chronic condition monitoring appoints James Sutcliffe as Chief Executive Officer. Sutcliffe will guide the strategic direction of the company with an emphasis on key commercial dynamics. Founders Tanvi Vattikuti Abbhi and Dr. Nora Zetsche will assume the roles of chief strategy officer and chief medical officer, respectively. Proactive MD appoints Dr. Saria Saccocio, M.D., as its new president, to continue
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Walmart to Deploy Epic EHR Platform in 4 New Health Centers
What You Should Know: - Walmart announces a new partnership with Epic to deploy a single enterprise EHR platform in four new Walmart Health Centers opening in Florida in early 2022. - The Epic deployment will engage patients, healthcare professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders while enhancing communication, personalization and information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and patients utilizing a patient portal.
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Walmart to Offer Included Health’s Care Navigation Platform to LGBTQ+ Employees & Families
What You Should Know: - Today, Walmart announced it is teaming up with Included Health, a LGBTQ+ focused care navigation platform to provide a new healthcare benefit for LGBTQ+ employees and their loved ones. - Through its partnership with Grand Rounds, associates on a Walmart medical plan and their covered dependents will now be eligible to leverage Included Health’s care-navigation platform tailored for the LGBTQ+ community. Why It Matters LGBTQ+ people face serious
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Long-Time Cerner Board Member Linda M. Dillman Passes Away
What You Should Know: - Linda M. Dillman, a long-time and trusted Cerner Corporation board member, passed away on Saturday, March 13. - Dillman retired from QVC in January 2017, having served as its Chief Information Officer since January 2012. Previously, she held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Walmart and Senior Vice President, Global Information Technology at Hewlett-Packard. She served on the Board of Directors for Cerner, GS1 US Board of
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