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Free Health Clinic's services now include low-cost lab work

Free Health Clinic's services now include low-cost lab work | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Free Health Clinic's services now include low-cost lab work Moab Times Independent The MFHC offers community health education and services, including diabetes education, blood draws, podiatry, massage, pediatric, primary care and mental health...
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Example of how hospital services are being done at much cheaper rates

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Retail clinics carry benefits, drawback

Retail clinics carry benefits, drawback | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Convenience is fine, but on chronic conditions physicians should have an integral role.
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Summary:

 

"For retail clinics to be viable for primary care, they should not compete with doctors by siphoning off patients, but join local practices so that patient records can be easily shared and follow-up care coordinated. Patients should also have the explicit option to fill prescriptions at any pharmacy where prices might be cheaper. Until that ideal is realized, retail clinics are fine to treat your sore throat but should not substitute for your primary care provider".

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Walgreen, CVS further expand into retail health with clinics

Rival drugstore chains continued this week to expand their footprints in retail health with retail clinics. Walgreen Co. announced a new clinic adjacent to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, while CVS Caremark ...
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The trend is for retail health clinics to partner with hosptials

 

"Rival drugstore chains continued this week to expand their footprints in retail health with retail clinics. Walgreen Co. announced a new clinic adjacent to Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus, while CVS Caremark Corp. announced a partnership with Parkridge Health System to run seven clinics near Chattanooga, Tenn". 

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Children's Hospital, Marquette team up to open new clinics

Children's Hospital, Marquette team up to open new clinics | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- Children's Hospital and Marquette University are partnering up to provide health clinics to under-served communities.
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This is good example of a hospital opening up a health clinic

 

Two clinics scheduled to open in October of this year will be at the Northside YMCA and COA Goldin Center on Burleigh Street. The clinics will be managed and staffed by nurses from Marquette University College of Nursing. Officials behind the project say they will open up options for family health care in areas that right now don’t have many.


Expect to see this trend 

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Growth in employer health clinics

Growth in employer health clinics | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Employer heath clinics shifting focus from Occ Med to Primary Care in effort to reduce costs http://t.co/AAx66pq9Dt #healthcare
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Whether retail health clinics or employer heatlh clinics the message is the same.

 

Deliver primary health care outside the hospitals

 

"The findings, released in the “Worksite Medical Clinics 2012 Survey Report” from health and human resources consultant Mercer, show that in the past three years prevalence of on-site health clinics for employers with 5,000 or more employees increased from 32 percent of companies to 37 percent. In addition, another 15 percent of companies this size are considering adding their own health clinics in the next two years"

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Telemedicine is reshaping Healthcare across the Country

Telemedicine is reshaping Healthcare across the Country | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
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Telemedicine and retail health clinics are related. The best combination is having  telemedicine service in a retail sitution so rather than having a large retail clinic you have a small telemedicine cubicle. 

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Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens Expand Collaboration to Retail Health Clinics

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens Expand Collaboration to Retail Health Clinics | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens Expand Collaboration to Bring First-of-its-Kind Walgreens to Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
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the key is linking a medical name to retail health

 

"This is a significant next step in our relationship, leveraging the clinical expertise of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens expansive health care resources to create a retail hub for community-based care"

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What Is The Solution: Care Outside The Hospital

What Is The Solution:  Care Outside The Hospital | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
One of the insights in The Innovator’s Prescription, a book about solving the problems afflicting the nation’s health-care system by Clayton Christensen, Dr. Jason Hwang, and Dr.
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The key:

 

Instead, the way to make health care affordable is to push care and treatment out of the hospital to less expensive professionals in lower-cost venues whenever possible.

 

An example of what this means in health care is to have nurse practitioners in retail health clinics treat patients that have precisely diagnosable diseases with rules-based treatments instead of having pricey doctors in expensive hospitals treat them.

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Retail Clinics Expand Health Care Services

  In a move that caught the attention of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Walgreens' Take Care ClinicsSM have begun offering assessment, treatment and management for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high...
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Part of the success of retail clinics is health costs paid by health insurance.

 

Whether retail clinics in other drug stores, big box stores, and grocery chains follow suit with expanded services remains to be seen. But the growth of retail clinics continues to rise to meet demand. They are popular with consumers because they offer both convenience and some cost savings over traditional doctor’s offices.

 

Care provided by retail clinics is covered by most health plans. 
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U.S. Retail Health Clinics Expected to Double by 2015

U.S. Retail Health Clinics Expected to Double by 2015 | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Driven by increasing demand from newly insured patients under health care reform, the number of U.S. retail health clinics is projected to double in the next three years, according to a new report by Accenture.
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Why:

 


“Although primary care physicians and hospitals once regarded retail clinics as a business threat, in a post-reform landscape, they are viewed as critical to facilitating future growth,” Safavi added. “In fact, retail clinics will reduce capacity constraints by referring lower-acuity patients to clinics while ensuring hospitals have capacity for more complex cases.”

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Survey explores NP job satisfaction in retail clinics

Survey explores NP job satisfaction in retail clinics | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Survey explores NP job satisfaction in retail clinics Clinical Advisor Las Vegas – Retail health clinics are emerging as a cost-effective solution to address primary care and urgent care needs as many parts of the United States experience a...
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Results of survey

 

"On average participants were women (97%) aged 46 to 50 years. The majority of respondents were white (84.8%), followed by blacks (9.1%) and Hispanics (6.1%).

 

The top areas of job satisfaction among NPs working in retail clinics were the challenge and autonomy of treating patients (93.9%), benefits (93%), and time for professional, social and community interaction (90%), respondents indicated."

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Missouri Faces Shortage Of Primary Care Doctors

Missouri Faces Shortage Of Primary Care Doctors | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
A shortfall of primary care doctors can mean more difficulty scheduling appointments and longer waits while reduced preventive care can push patients' health problems into chronic conditions. Clinics more frequently are ...
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Shortage of doctors is one of the key driving trends to retail health Clinics in the US.

 

 

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Retail Clinics Expand Services to Diagnose, Treat, Manage Chronic Health Conditions

Retail Clinics Expand Services to Diagnose, Treat, Manage Chronic Health Conditions | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
What are "retail clinics"? What services do they provide? Find the answers to these questions and more.
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"Clinics in drugstores and big-box retailers have given flu shots and treated runny noses for years. But Walgreens' Take Care Clinics upped their game this spring when they began to diagnose, treat and manage care of hypertension, diabetes and other chronic conditions".

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Boom predicted for retail clinics after years-long lull

Boom predicted for retail clinics after years-long lull | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
“There had been tremendous growth a few years ago [in retail health clinics], and we expect to see that again,” said Jill Dailey, senior executive and managing director of health strategy at Accenture, a management consulting ...
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"The number of retail clinics will grow by more than 100% by the end of 2015, according to a report by Accenture. It says that unlike the last growth spurt, retail clinics won’t try to compete with doctors — they’ll help them manage a growing patient load".

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Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego

Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego California Healthline SAN DIEGO -- With millions of newly insured patients expected to tax an already short supply of primary care physicians, retail clinics may play a significant role in...
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another example of relationships

 

"As the retail clinics have expanded in terms of their geographic footprint, they want to drive up their volumes, and a great way to do that is to forge relationships with local hospital systems or with physician practices that might want to send patients for lower-acuity issues to the retail clinics," she said".

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Christiana Care Health System readies Pennsylvania care center

Christiana Care Health System readies Pennsylvania care center | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Christiana Care Health System readies Pennsylvania care center The News Journal It's not the first Christiana Care facility to be located outside the state, but the Concord Health Center will be the largest, housing offices for primary and...
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This is part of trend of hospital reaching out to set up new primary care centers

 

"More health systems are bolstering their outpatient services in an effort to better connect with patients and promoted preventive health, a key consideration as more components of the 2010 Affordable Care Act are being implemented, said Guy David, an associate professor of health care management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The result is a national trend toward providing more care outside the typical inpatient setting"

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The Rise of Health Clinics Inside Retailers

The Rise of Health Clinics Inside Retailers | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
It used to be that if you fell and sprained your ankle on a Friday night, you’d have to wait until Monday morning when the office of your primary care physician opened its doors to get treatment --&n
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Reinhold agrees that the increasing cooperation between retail clinics, hospitals, and physician groups is a win-win situation. “Anytime you have a physician onboard, it’s a benefit,” she says. “This collaboration allows healthcare professionals access to patient records for more comprehensive care and greater buy-in from both the patients and the doctors.”

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Health clinics in retail stores a growing trend for patients

More and more Americans are using health clinics inside retail stores instead of going to the doctor or emergency room. Randall Pinkston reports on why these...
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Nice video on retail health clinics

 

Why their is a need

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The Health Care Cost Curve -- It's Bending

The Health Care Cost Curve -- It's Bending | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
If the cost of commodities had gone up at the same rate as health care since 1945, a dozen eggs would cost $55, a gallon of milk would be $40 and a dozen oranges would cost $134, according to the Institute of Medicine.
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one reason for reduced health care costs

 

PwC cites four factors that have reduced the medical cost trend:

 

" Health care treatment is moving toward less expensive care settings, such as retail clinics and mobile providers and away from more costly venues such as hospitals. Treatment is more convenient for consumers, and health care bills can be 33 percent lower in these settings."

Conversations for Inquiring Minds's curator insight, June 29, 2013 2:52 PM

This put costs into perspective for me.  I wouldn't be eating eggs at $55 per dozen.  That's for sure!

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E-health made easier – and more comfortable

E-health made easier – and more comfortable | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it

The future of health care could be found in a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that collects vital information. The Bio-patch sensor developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is inexpensive, versatile and, best of all, comfortable to wear.

 

Geng Yang, a researcher at JRC iPack centre at KTH, says that the Bio-patch measures bioelectrical signals through the skin, gathering data on different parts of the body depending on where it is placed.

 

“On the chest it provides electrocardiography (ECG), on the skull it measures brainwaves (EEC), and on the forearm it can measure muscle response to stimulation from the nervous system (EMG),” he says. It also has a built-in sensor that constantly monitors body temperature.

 

With a wireless connection, the patient can analyse the readings in their smartphone, or send the data via internet to a healthcare professional for diagnosis.

 

The thinking behind Bio-patch is that health care can be moved out of the hospitals and into the home, Yang says. “Bio-patch is a step towards what is known as self-care, which is valuable especially for patients discharged after an operation, or for the elderly living unassisted,” he says.

 

Bio-patch has resulted in several publications in prestigious scientific journals and successful development of a prototype. Yang says several companies have already shown interest in the product.

  


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This type of sensor can be used in small telemedicine cubicles to send vital data to a HCP

eHWS's curator insight, July 3, 2013 8:56 AM

We started with mobile monitoring - 40 years ago!

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Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego

Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Retail Clinic Growth Sparks New Partnership in San Diego California Healthline SAN DIEGO -- With millions of newly insured patients expected to tax an already short supply of primary care physicians, retail clinics may play a significant role in...
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This is trend all over the  US

 

"With millions of newly insured patients expected to tax an already short supply of primary care physicians, retail clinics may play a significant role in California's new health care landscape, according to health care experts.

The growth of retail clinics is fostering new partnerships and in some cases new forms of cooperation rather than -- or in addition to -- competition."



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Retail Clinics Expand Services to Diagnose, Treat, Manage Chronic Health Conditions

Retail Clinics Expand Services to Diagnose, Treat, Manage Chronic Health Conditions | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
What are "retail clinics"? What services do they provide? Find the answers to these questions and more.
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Clearly an expansion into chronic disease is a must for retail clinics

 

Clinics in drugstores and big-box retailers have given flu shots and treated runny noses for years. But Walgreens' Take Care Clinics upped their game this spring when they began to diagnose, treat and manage care of hypertension, diabetes and other chronic conditions.

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Newly insured to deepen primary care doctor gap

Newly insured to deepen primary care doctor gap | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
San Francisco Chronicle
Newly insured to deepen primary care doctor gap
Fox News
Mark Bridenbaugh runs rural health centers in six southeastern Ohio counties, including the only primary care provider in Vinton County.
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This will drive the set up of new health clinics

 

"A shortage of primary care physicians in some parts of the country is expected to worsen as millions of newly insured Americans gain coverage under the federal health care law next year. Doctors could face a backlog, and patients could find it difficult to get quick appointments"


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Retail Health Clinics: India

Newly launched clinic on CMH Road is the first one to sport NationWide's refreshed branding and marks the start of the next phase of rapid growth for the chain.
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Retail Health Clinics is part of global trend to create primary health care to underserved people

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Meet Your New Physician, Dr. Walgreens

Meet Your New Physician, Dr. Walgreens | Trends in Retail Health Clinics  and telemedicine | Scoop.it
Welcome to the new world of medicine, for better or worse
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Big Trend

 

 "Walgreens recently got the green light, under Obamacare, to develop “accountable care organizations”—in effect, to create partnerships with doctors and hospitals that will manage the care of patients and, if they can save money, get bonus payments from Medicare. Sarah Kliff of The Washington Post explained the logic and how Walgreen's envisions it all working:

 

Up until now, hospitals and large physician groups were the only health care systems that had launched ACOs. Walgreen’s decision to move forward marks the first time a pharmacy has gotten into the new model and puts it among 250 ACOs created since the program began in 2011"

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