What You Should Know:
- Higher prices across most health-related goods and services have consumers reeling to find better options to save money.
- Starting today, these consumers have access to SmartRx, the newest prescription discount card. While designed to compete directly with GoodRx, SingleCare, Carecard, SmartRx(a division ofSmarty) acts as a premium health savings that goes beyond prescription drugs.
Offering Consumers a One-Stop For Premium Health Savings On
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Walmart and Avanlee Care Team Up to Aid Caregivers
What You Should Know:
- Avanlee Care, a digital health tool for today’s caregivers is teaming up with Walmart to support the 65 million Americans currently caring for aging family members. As a part of Walmart’s “New Year Reset” program, the Avanlee Care app will be displayed and promoted at supercenter locations throughout Florida in the pharmacy and grocery sections of the stores.
- This collaboration is the first of its kind for both brands. The partnership serves to educate and
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HLTH22: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Key Takeaways
We reached out to six digital health executives for their key takeaways and reflection from attending the recent HLTH22 conference.
Sunny Kumar, MD, Partner at GSR Ventures, a $3B AUM venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies.
The most fascinating element of HLTH 2022 were the concurrent contrasts. Set against a challenging macroeconomic environment with decreases in venture funding and near-daily headlines of large layoffs cutting across the tech ecosystem,
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New Data on Massive, Sustained Growth of the Health & Wellness Industry
What You Should Know:
- In its latest edition of the Product Report, Amplitude Labs dives straight into results obtained from their exclusive Amplitude dataset, which shows how the product landscape has evolved from 2021 to 2022, including the product growth observed across 12 industries and eight countries.
- The report also highlights what the data suggests will be the 30 next hottest products across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Additionally, the report also covers how
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Forrester Unveils 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2023
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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