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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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Consider the following market developments and collaborations that are addressing health access, bolstering value-based models, streamlining and re-imagining service delivery. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022. These trends began to take hold in the U.S. Expanding value-based care, nationally.

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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

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Trust has become a key currency in provider/patient/supplier relationships: 94% of health executives say treating customers as partners is important to gain trust, according to the Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 from Accenture. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision.

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

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As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The company announced a collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs along with Philips and T-Mobile to expand healthcare access to veterans via telehealth.

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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

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As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

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The study, Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer, was published in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 3, 2018, coinciding with the researchers’ ASCO presentation of the results. ” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo.

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Collaboration is the New Innovation – Designing for Health with Amy Cueva at #HIMSS18

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To reconnect the fragmented pieces of healthcare delivery, Cueva said, mantra-style, “collaboration is the new innovation.” And collaboration with patients, caregivers — the people for whom that healthcare is aimed — is the optimal workflow for effectively, enchantingly designing healthcare. We are the design,” Cueva concluded.

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If Data Is The New Oil in Healthcare, Will It Be Safe to Drink? The Accenture Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

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This and other important questions will be brainstormed on the webcast hosted by Accenture on Wednesday 18 July 2018 as we discuss the five trends that paint the firm’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018. Frictionless business is the vision for streamlining healthcare and lubricating the value-chain for healthcare collaborators.