Healthcare kiosks call to mind the dusty automated blood pressure machines that have sat quietly in drug stores for years. But the new generation of these devices offers a radically different experience -- one that can have a big impact on the practice...
CVS CAREMARK CORPORATION : MinuteClinic Partners With DASH for Health ... 4-traders (press release) MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States.
eMedToday's insight:
This is a trend of walk in clinics offering new services
"MinuteClinic, a division of CVS Caremark and the largest provider of walk-in medical clinics in the United States, has created the Weight Loss Program at MinuteClinic, a convenient, personalized program to help patients lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle incorporating the proven DASH diet health plan. The DASH diet has been ranked the No. 1 Overall Diet by U.S. News & World Report for the past three years".
Mobile tele-health clinics to help veterans WHSV PRINCETON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs is bringing new mobile health and tele-health clinics to Mercer County. Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, and Rep.
eMedToday's insight:
Retail health is about delivery of health care outside the hospital
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) July 13, 2013 -- The starting of a unique telemedicine website, Online USA Doctors, is now providing people an effective alternative to the usual healthcare plans.
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"The starting of a unique telemedicine website, Online USA Doctors, is now providing people an effective alternative to the usual healthcare plans. The portal provides online doctor consultation, and many other services that a person uses in case of health issues. The healthcare provided is just as effective as, or even better than the usual channel, but at a much reduced cost".
Report: Urgent care cost impact unclear Pittsburgh Business Times (blog) Urgent care centers make it easier to get medical attention, especially during evenings and weekends, but the centers' impact on health care costs remains unclear, a new study...
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"Overall, respondents perceived that urgent care centers improve access to certain services for privately insured people without significantly disrupting care continuity, but respondents were uncertain about urgent care centers' impact on costs," HSC research analyst and study co-author Ellyn Boukus said in a prepared statement
Healthspring chain to expand across country Hindu Business Line A chain of primary healthcare clinics, run under the brand name Healthspring Community Medical Centres, is set to increase its presence across the country.
As wait times to see a doctor for simple problems like sinusitis and urinary tract infection lengthen, more and more Americans are turning to retail (More Americans using retail health clinics: As wait times to see a doctor for simple...
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Interesting insight
The research comparing nurse practitioners with doctors on several measures of care has been reassuring, Dr. Mehrotra says. “People who went to the nurse practitioner did just as well as those who went to a doctor.”
Health Sense: Employers offer on-site clinics 77Square.com That's the same year Stoughton Trailers added primary care services to its on-site clinic, which has provided occupational health services since the 1990s, said Keith Wise, community...
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Nationally, 30 percent of companies with 500 or more workers have on-site clinics, according to the consulting firm Mercer.
Most of the companies say they’re trying to improve productivity and control health care costs. Of those that have measured their return on investment, more than half say the savings have been substantial, according to a Mercer report.
As Obamacare Rolls Out, Retail Clinics Are Booming Again Forbes Retail health clinics, which are generally staffed by advanced degreed nurses known as nurse practitioners, treat routine maladies like strep throat or pink eye, are expected to be a...
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Retail clinics are booming again with the Affordable Care Act slated to offer coverage for uninsured individuals on exchanges this fall
Employers open health clinics at the workplace Palo Alto Online Run by Take Care Health Systems, a Walgreens pharmacy subsidiary, the clinic is one of three at HP campuses; the other two are in Plano and Houston.
eMedToday's insight:
There is an increasing trend in employee setting up clinic or working with retail healh clinics to providers services for patients.
The numbers
About 1, 200 firms currently operate on-site clinics across the country, a 2009 Fuld & Co. paper estimated.
Retail clinics like Walgreens are expanding, and have the potential to disrupt an expensive and non-transparent health care system. (RT @WalgreensNews: Want to learn more about what’s happening with #health #retail clinics?
eMedToday's insight:
According to Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the growth of these clinics is the thing most likely to disrupt the American healthcare business. As for the physician shortage, "I don't think there's a question that there aren't going to be enough doctors,"
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care Working Knowledge Delivered by the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, which was formed last year with encouragement from the respective deans of the two institutions, the report makes five recommendations for...
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the key point
"Decentralizing approaches to problem solving: Conference attendees and survey respondents generally applauded the fact that health care delivery is becoming more decentralized—with care delivery spreading beyond traditional facilities and into new models such as the MinuteClinic, a for-profit provider that operates some 640 clinics inside CVS pharmacies.
"So much of health care has grown up around centralized organizations," Huckman says. "Now what we're seeing in all sectors of health care is some movement away from these centers and toward the periphery. So instead of people going to the downtown medical center they might go to a retail clinic. They might increasingly have their care monitored from home. In its most extreme form, patients may actually become their own providers with respect to many issues."
With 30 million prospective new patients just over the healthcare horizon, hospitals and other provider organizations are rethinking service channel opportunities.
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key point
For stretched hospital operators,” Accenture predicts, “the answer may lie in an unexpected place, and one that, until recently, was considered a rival: retail health clinics. This valuable ‘release valve’ to the strained healthcare system could jumpstart a rapid growth in retail health clinics, which may lead to a doubling of their number nationally over the next three years.”
My Fox Memphis addresses retail health clinics as a good alternative for emergency room care in Memphis because of overcrowding. Shrice Davis, NP for The Lit...
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This is good overview.
Too many people go to ER when most cases could be done by a retail health cliniics
KJZZ Walgreens Clinics Set A Precedent In Treating Chronic Conditions KJZZ Even though Take Care Clinics will now diagnose and treat chronic conditions, they also are supposed to help the patient get set up with a primary care doctor.
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This is the trend
This is one of 22 Take Care Clinics around the Valley and one of hundreds around the country that has started diagnosing and treating chronic conditions as well as acute ones. Acute conditions are things like strep or bronchitis or a UTI. For now, Walgreens is the first retail health clinic to treat chronic conditions, like.
But can urgent care centers play a cost-effective, high quality part in stemming health care costs and inappropriate use of ERs for primary care. That's a question asked and answered by The Surge in Urgent Care Centers: ...
eMedToday's insight:
Yes people will come
But if the cost structure of the UCC is lower, and quality assured, then UCCs can play a key role as an on-ramp to primary care before patients seek care in a more expensive emergency department.
Wall Street Journal- India The Office Nurse Now Treats Diabetes, Not Headaches Wall Street Journal- India Workplace health clinics used to be a lot like the school nurse's office, dispensing Band-Aids, treating occupational injuries, and serving as...
eMedToday's insight:
This is the right role for retail, mobile clinics
Workplace health clinics used to be a lot like the school nurse's office, dispensing Band-Aids, treating occupational injuries, and serving as a first stop for emergencies like asthma attacks.
But as companies face rising insurance costs and an aging workforce, they're turning clinics into something new: A place to aggressively nudge employees about long-term, expensive conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
There is more money than ever at stake. Chronic diseases account for more than 65% of all corporate health-care spending, according to a 2012 Aon AON -0.11%Hewitt report.
With 30 million prospective new patients just over the healthcare horizon, hospitals and other provider organizations are rethinking service channel opportunities. (And alliances perhaps.) Retail m...
eMedToday's insight:
the numbers are impressive
"Patient visits at retail clinics are projected to account for 10 percent of non-primary care outpatient visits by the end of 2015"
Which companies are driving the trend? (Retail health clinics continue aggressive expansion http://t.co/6tzu2DOeGF via @retaildive)
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SummaryAccording to reports released by Tom Charland of Merchant Medicine, retail clinics rose in number roughly 7% during the same period in 2012.The majority of the expansion throughout the U.S. is fueled by CVS andWalgreen’s popular retail health clinics.“We continue to see evidence of new services and approaches in the retail clinic market that are helping to solidify the financial model and setting the stage for an acceleration of new clinics over the next few years,” statesCharland in the report.
The term telemedicine is currently a big buzzword. The first use of telemedicine and hence the use of the term too dates back a couple of years ago though.
Through substantial improvements of modern video conferences and steady enhancement of IP networks worldwide, telemedicine has become a lot more important again. Telemedicine has been further professionalized driven by big countries and regions with a comparably low population density. Telemedicine can be used to make decisions essential to human life faster and for first diagnoses. Experts can consulted at a cheap price. Pioneers in telemedicine are the USA, Australia or the Scandinavian countries.
The first Chinese portable hospitals for Africa, comprising ten modular containers, will be sent to either Cameroon or Namibia at the end of this month.
eMedToday's insight:
This is an interesting concept. Not retail health but the same, namely deploying a medical solution outside the hospital
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