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- By Tory Wolff
Iora Health was one of the original primary care transformers offering a clinically capable, engagement-focused, and accountability-grounded care model. After an initial foray into commercial, Iora p…
- By Tory Wolff and Thomas Uhler
We identify four different business strategy rationales for hospital@home depending on each hospital’s specific market situation and each with clear predictive implications for local markets. These a…
- By Tory Wolff
Last week, WMT acquired MeMD, a virtual provider in Arizona. Per the press release, MeMD will “allow Walmart Health to provide access to virtual care across the nation including urgent, behavioral and…
- By Marc Herant
Healthcare is by nature conservative; despite a huge level of interest for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques, significant penetration in standard workflows of care will…
- By Marc Herant
Remodeling to health?
Chronic disease progression is often due to a maladaptive tissue response which leads to remodeling – such as cardiac hypertrophy with hypertension. While most therapeutics focu…
- By Marc Herant
A new approach to schizophrenia
Antipsychotic agents treat schizophrenia by manipulating the dopaminergic system. While they are effective at treating psychosis, they can have major side effects and t…
- By Tory Wolff
All that effort for only 0.4% savings
Since 2014, HUM has reported on the performance of primary care in value-based arrangements (“VBA”) vs. traditional contracts (“non-VBA”)[1] in Medicare Advantage…
- By Marc Herant
We can cure Hep C but not immunize against it
Sovaldi and other drugs have made curing chronic Hepatitis C a routine, if expensive, proposition. Still, given how common Hep C infection is, and how it …
- By Tory Wolff and Anja Schempf
Eighteen months ago, WMT opened its first Walmart Health clinic attached to a supercenter in Dallas, GA. The operation combined multiple services – primary/urgent care, dentistry, behavioral health, …