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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

I would add that the enactment (and some would say the design) of the ACA itself spurred payer consolidation. This may be reflected in how physicians, nurses and other clinical personnel are trained, compensated, and included in policy and procedural changes. Marketers of the new entity will refocus on patient satisfaction.

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Day 3 Notes from the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

Moving Down the Pyramid Beneath the at-home segment, there’s the high risk member segment that often is best treated in a longer visit in a primary care or multispecialty clinic with higher frequency of visits (best practices are at least once per month for relatively stable high risk polychronic patients).

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