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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

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Wheel Launches Next-Gen Virtual Care Platform

HIT Consultant

In just three years, the company has delivered care to over four million people, built a customer portfolio of leading digital health brands such as GoodRx, and is powering large enterprises and Fortune 50 companies in retail, health plan, and pharmaceutical and life science industries, including as a third-party provider for Amazon Clinic.

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OXOS Medical Raises $23M to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”

HIT Consultant

To help accelerate the company’s growth, Gregg Hill, Parkway Venture Capital co-founder and managing partner, and Eric King, Intel Capital health and life science investment director, will join the OXOS board of directors.

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How proactive, predictive, AI-powered patient oversight can boost health outcomes

Healthcare It News

To answer these questions, Healthcare IT News sat down with Zack Tisch, senior vice president of innovation and life sciences at Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company. And what kinds of outcomes can healthcare provider organizations expect? Pivot Point is a health IT consulting firm and No. 1 Best in KLAS managed IT services company.

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2024 Healthcare Predictions

Lexis Nexis

Care Delivery Diversification How care is delivered is rapidly changing with the expansion of retail health centers and continued advancement in the capabilities of digital health platforms. Department stores, pharmacies and urgent care centers continue to expand their retail health center footprint and the types of care they provide.

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Study Confirms mRNA Vaccines Protect Against COVID-19 During Pregnancy

HIT Consultant

or urgent care center visits and protects even more strongly against hospitalizations for COVID-19, three venues for receipt of medical attention for the disease. and urgent care visits than for hospitalizations was seen in pregnant women, most significantly in the Omicron period among those receiving only two vaccine doses.

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Quidel Corporation Acquires Ortho Clinical Diagnostics for $6B

HIT Consultant

The combined organization will unite world-class technologies and platforms to benefit customers with expanded access to clinical chemistry, immunoassay, molecular diagnostics, immunohematology, donor screening, and point-of-care diagnostics offerings.