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Rise of Retail Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Payers

HIT Consultant

Director of Healthcare Strategy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions Healthcare delivery continues to evolve to meet ever-changing patient demands. These new entrants are largely focused on offering primary care, urgent care, and a growing list of specialty services to make care more easily accessible, affordable, and cost-transparent.

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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers

HIT Consultant

Patients realized that for many of their healthcare needs, they didn’t need to sit in a waiting room or try to find transportation only to have a five-minute interaction with a doctor or nurse. If they have phone and internet access, they can conveniently access care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Infusing Telehealth & Virtual Care Into Patient Care Plans With Thomas Foley | Ep.15

Vie Healthcare

Thomas is the Chief Growth Officer at GenieMD and host of The Virtual Shift: Reimagining the Delivery of Care. His expertise is virtual care. As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?… What’s your end stage?

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