By Jay Parkinson | Founder & CEO at Sherpaa June 20, 2017 – For the last couple thousand years, doctors have used the same tool to treat their patients— an appointment, a […]
Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0 | Parkinson, MD
Aspen Institute’s Health Innovation Project Helps Scale and Spread Value and Quality in Health Care
New report identifies five game-changing ideas to accelerate innovation FOR IMMEDATE RELEASE Contact: Douglas Farrar The Aspen Institute 202.669.2333 | douglas.farrar@aspeninstitute.org Washington, DC, June 21, 2017 – Can transformative innovations produce a […]
R-Health Announces Funding from Reinvestment Fund
$2 Million Loan to Support Further Direct Primary Care Expansion in New Jersey ELKINS PARK, PA – (June 22, 2017) R-Health, a leader in innovative primary care solutions, today announced the company […]
gt | Precision Medicine ‘All of Us’ Project Seeks to Track Hundreds of Thousands of People’s Health Over Time
The goal is to give researchers data to use in figuring out the causes of disease. If all goes to plan, qualified researchers should be able to start using the data next […]
The Institute for Functional Medicine Names Amy R. Mack as Chief Operations Officer | IFM
FEDERAL WAY, Wash., June 21, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) welcomes Amy R. Mack as its new chief operations officer (COO). In this role, Mack will work closely […]
BUSINESS | NEWS | Aledade inks new partnership with major insurer
By Tina Reed | Staff Reporter | Washington Business Journal Bethesda company Aledade Inc. — which specializes in helping independent physician practices build accountable care organizations to better coordinate care for patients […]
Patients Are Flocking to Urgent Care Clinics. Now Hospitals Are, Too.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | Posted by: Crain’s Chicago Business | Urgent Care Association of America Immediate care clinics offer more than just speedy stitches and X-rays. For several Chicago-area health systems, […]
EXAMPLES: Hospital Institutions Offering Concierge Medicine plus, Exec. Health Membership Programs [REVISED 2017]
By Michael Tetreault, Editor-in-Chief Hospital Environments & Executive Health Programs and Concierge Care. An excerpt from The Doctor’s Guide to Concierge Medicine Updated: MAY 2017 – Medical centers are no strangers to […]
Retail Clinics Trends Overview | Kalorama Information, a division of MarketResearch.com
Retail Clinics Trends Overview | Kalorama Information Dec 1, 2016 | 15 Pages – Pub ID: KLI15188963 This brief PDF reveals general trends about retail clinics, healthcare facilities located within retail stores. […]
TECH | Hack Your Health: Concierge Physical Therapy and Beyond– Enter BetterPT App
Better PT Inc. is a New York-based startup which officially launched their physical therapy based app in March, originally began as a concierge practice. Patients in need of physical therapy could order a […]
RETAIL HEALTH | AMA — ” I’m afraid that the AMA comes across as antagonistic and territorial towards retail clinics …” Op/Ed
AMA Got it Wrong: Inconvenience, Not Retail, is the Enemy June 16, 2017 By Gabriel Perna This week, the AMA is holding its annual meeting, announcing its positions and policy on the […]
EDITOR: “Many of the things people resist about their Doctor are things Doctor’s should resist as well.”
By Michael Tetreault, Editor JUNE 8, 2017 | ATLANTA, GA — For 21 years, [Concierge Medicine] Physicians have put a lot of energy and effort into creating healthcare environments people actually want […]
WHITE PAPER | Top 10 Big Data Trends for 2017
See the Trends That Will Shape 2017 Download this free whitepaper 2016 was a landmark year for big data with more organizations storing, processing, and extracting value from data of all forms […]
Store-and-Forward Telehealth Service Replaces the Office Visit
Rush University Medical Center’s new SmartExam service uses a store-and-forward telehealth platform to treat patients with minor health concerns. It’s an ideal platform for a hospital just beginning its digital health journey. […]
NPR | A Pioneer In ‘Flat-Fee Primary Care’ Had To Close Its Clinics. What Went Wrong?
“The bottom line is it’s not for free,” she said. “You can’t do this for $25 [per person] per month. If we start doing it for $50 to $100 per month then […]
ACEP: Medicaid Expansion States Saw ER Visits Go Up, Uninsured ER Visits Go Down
WASHINGTON — JUNE 19, 2017 — States that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) saw 2.5 emergency department visits more per 1,000 people after 2014, while the share […]
LISTEN (All-New) | Emerging 3rd Model in Private, Concierge Medicine … “Brand X”
LISTEN | ALL-NEW INTERVIEW– LIVE By Michael Tetreault, Editor in Chief | The DPC Journal | Concierge Medicine Today RELATED EVENT COMING THIS OCT. 2017 OCTOBER 27-28, 2017 in ATLANTA, GA — […]
Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Health of America Report — 29.8 percent of emergency room visits were for conditions that could have been treated in retail clinics.
Tips to reduce your health care expenses Tuesday, April 11, 2017 3:01 pm | Updated: 2:31 am, Wed Apr 19, 2017. Brandpoint (BPT) Be smart about where you go for care. While […]
Despite A Growing Appetite, Buffet-Style Flat-Fee Clinics Shutter In Seattle | KHN
“The bottom line is it’s not for free,” she said. “You can’t do this for $25 [per person] per month. If we start doing it for $50 to $100 per month then […]
BUSINESS of SUBSCRIPTIONS | How does bad content and experiences affect churn likelihood of an individual user and their surrounding community?
BUSINESS | Rather than seeking a mass audience for original programming, subscription models have quickly realized the value of producing and realizing content at a cadence and quality-level to spur acquisition and […]
SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Michael Luciano Is Offering Concierge Medicine to His Patients
This press release was orginally distributed by SBWire Horsham, PA — (SBWIRE) — 06/14/2017 — Dr. Michael Luciano, Board Certified in Family and Obesity Medicine is helping his patients have better experiences […]
PRECISION MEDICINE: Human Longevity, Merck KGaA Form Cancer Biomarker Partnership
Jun 15, 2017 | Staff Reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Human Longevity (HLI) announced today that it has partnered with Germany’s Merck KGaA to identify treatment-response biomarker signatures in patients with advanced […]
