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Walmart Health announces partnership with Epic

Healthcare It News

Cheryl Pegus, executive vice president at Walmart Health and Wellness, in a statement. Walmart has been slowly opening health centers designed to deliver primary and urgent care, labs, x-ray and diagnostics, counseling, dental, optical and hearing services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Improving Population Health Management, One Data Point at a Time

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Community Health Network finds big ROI in consumer-centric technology

Healthcare It News

” A team of roughly 16,000 healthcare professionals shares in that mission by offering the full breadth of healthcare services with a particular focus on population health management. "On our website, the technology powers our urgent care directory and care discovery experience. Simply Delivered.”

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Despite Its Benefits, Home Health Providers Should Not View Telehealth As ‘Panacea’

Home Health Care

Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of virtual care company KeyCare, believes that telehealth is useful for certain cases. For a certain number of cases, it absolutely leads to cost savings, and decreased ER visits or even urgent care, outpatient ambulatory type visits,” he told Home Health Care News.

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The Value of Population Health Management at Your Organization; Which Data are Important

Health Dialog

Where should you begin to make an initial impact on the health of your population? Start with Structured Data: Traditional data is often the first information analyzed for population health management because it’s readily available and generally exists in a structured format. Population Health Management.

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Ease the Shift to Value-Based Care with Proven Population Health Tools

Health Dialog

As provider groups work internally on this complex transition, they should consider partnerships with existing population health companies with tools and that will help them achieve these quality measures and work toward achieving the Triple Aim of lowering costs, improving the patient experience, and improving the health of their population.

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Health Populi

The second chart graphs average charge per claim for common retail clinic diagnoses, connecting the dots between site-of-care and lower costs in retail clinics compared with hospital outpatient departments, doctor’s offices, and urgent care centers which are higher-cost than retail clinics.