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The Future of Care Demands a Virtual Health Ecosystem

Telehealth usage skyrocketed in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data from EHR vendor Epic Systems, telehealth visits peaked in mid-April, when telehealth accounted for 69 percent of all ambulatory care visits. Although the percentage dropped to 21 percent by mid-July, telehealth usage is still much higher than it was at pre-pandemic levels. In the last year, telehealth has gotten a lot of attention from investors. Amwell went public and Teladoc acquired Livongo for a record $18 billion, and analysis from Rock Health...

Is the COVID Vaccine the Shot in the Arm We Need for Healthcare Access?

Colin Hung recently interviewed Chris Gervais, CTO and CSO at Kyruus; and Pamela Landis, vice president of digital engagement at Hackensack Meridian Health, for a discussion of healthcare access and the importance of that access in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gervais began by saying that Kyruus defines patient access as “the ability to ensure that patients can obtain timely care from the right provider in a convenient location.” All three of these factors must come together in order for healthcare to be truly accessible. There are...

Andrew Dudum, Hims & Hers, on disrupting healthcare by reimagining the patient experience

On a recent episode of Wharton Digital Health’s The Pulse podcast, Hims & Hers Founder and CEO Andrew Dudum discussed a wide range of topics including how Hims & Hers disrupted the $4 trillion healthcare industry by creating a telehealth tool that makes Americans’ medical care more affordable, more accessible, and higher quality while building a brand consumers love. Dudum comes from a family of entrepreneurs and began his own entrepreneurial journey while he was still in high school. With a desire to disrupt an established...

Keeping Physicians Independent: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Dr Farzad Mostashari

In a recent episode of the American Journal of Managed Care’s Managed Care Cast podcast, Dr. Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In interviewed Aledade Co-founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, about how his company is keeping physicians independent through value-based care. Value-based care, Mostashari said, is different from the standard fee-for-service model in that a practice’s success as a business is not tied to how many people they can see in a short amount of time. Rather, it is tied to outcomes for...

The Spread of COVID-19 Has Caused Medtech to Boom

The promise of digital health, telehealth, and other medtech solutions like remote patient monitoring has been apparent to people in the industry for a long time, but it wasn’t until COVID-19 forced the adoption of these tools that the promise started to become a reality. Global Market Insights forecasts that telemedicine will expand at a 26.2 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2020 and 2026. Investors have also pounced on the digital health market as rapid consumer adoption has created massive new business for digital...