By PYMNTS Amazon rolled out a virtual health clinic with in-home follow-ups for employees in Seattle, Geekwire reported on Tuesday (Sept. 24). Amazon Care offers online primary care and non-emergency checkups as well as prescription deliveries and in-home or in-office doctors’ visits. The new service is part of Amazon’s push to deepen its footprint in [...]
By Morris Panner From cloud-based medical imaging platforms to artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics, health care continues to be the epicenter of digital innovations that are geared toward boosting patient care. Personalized medicine is another new wave sweeping health care with the dual objectives of achieving more meaningful patient-to-doctor relations and lowering costs. The lynchpin of this [...]
By Carey Goldberg Concierge DNA testing are the big-ticket “whole-genome” tests that look at more than 3,000 genes and can cost nearly $3,000 for a full interpretation. “And we’ve got some more limited and less expensive panel options,” Green offers. “For example, if you were really concerned about cancer, there’s a $250, 61-gene cancer panel [...]
By Bruce Shutan Can producers have an impact on direct primary care success? About 8,500 benefit brokers, advisers and insurance agents are being tapped to distribute direct primary care (DPC) plans to employer clients through the healthcare supply chain. All of them are, or will be, working with the Clinical Wellness Network (CWN) to scale [...]
By Chad Savage You might have missed this big news because the media largely ignored it, but President Trump signed a historic health care executive order (EO) in June. It supports innovative direct primary care (DPC) practice models and promises to make health care prices more transparent than they have been in a half century. [...]
By Matthew Glans Problem One of the lesser-known factors driving skyrocketing health care costs across the country is the lack of primary care physicians . Indeed, many states are experiencing a severe shortage of primary care physicians. According to a 2018 report from United Health Group , 13 percent of American patients live in a [...]