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How virtual primary care can amplify value for providers and patients

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Primary care physicians are the heart of healthcare delivery in the United States. In addition to providing many crucial health services, they are the traffic cop to all the other forms of healthcare throughout a health system. You contend virtual primary care can amplify value in several ways.

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Primary care goes up against the healthcare disruptors

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ORLANDO – The future of primary care and how retailers are disrupting the traditional experience was the focus of a fireside chat between Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief physician executive at Press Ganey and Sashi Moodley, chief medical officer at Walgreens. Phillips, former president of Clinical Care for Providence St.

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Arches Medical Partners buys 11 primary care clinics from VillageMD

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners. Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners.

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Bipartisan bill aims to bolster primary care workforce

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Key Senate panels have reached a bipartisan deal on a bill that aims to bolster primary care. | The package would invest more than $26 billion into primary care programs as well as initiatives to grow the healthcare workforce.

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Amazon Pharmacy testing out medication consulting service with One Medical primary care providers

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As Amazon builds out its healthcare business and expands its reach into hybrid primary care, pharmacy operations and virtual care, there are promising opportunities to integrate these services to o | A year after its big-ticket primary care acquisition, Amazon Pharmacy is piloting a program to provide pharmacy consultations to One Medical providers (..)

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Primary care reimagined: A virtual front door to healthcare

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Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. You are big on reimagining primary care.

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Walgreens' VIllageMD exits Florida market, shuttering remaining primary care clinics

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Walgreens is closing its remaining VillageMD primary care clinics in Florida. | The announcement does not come as a total surprise, as Walgreens first disclosed its plans to close 60 underperforming VillageMD clinics and exit five markets last fall.