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Trend Spotting: Are Local Care Providers Losing the Telehealth Platform Wars?
by Vince Kuraitis, JD and Randall Williams, MD
Two recent surveys shed light on the issue of patient loyalty to local care providers for telehealth visits. While the findings are mixed, local providers should be concerned about how they’re faring in the telehealth platform wars. Let’s take a look at both surveys.
Early Evidence Suggested Patients Preferred Their Own Providers for Telehealth Visits
Early evidence suggesting patient loyalty to their own providers was shown by The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition Telehealth Impact Study Work Group. Their survey asked about telehealth encounters between March 1, 2020 and January 30, 2021 and included 2,007 respondents.
As shown in the graphic below, the findings demonstrated that a vast majority of telehealth services were taking place with “my own provider” (ranging from 71% for 18-30 year olds to 83% for those 65 or older) or “another provider in my own provider’s practice (ranging from 5 to 8%).
The “e-CareManagement Blog” is now “The Healthcare Platform Blog”
You’ve been a subscriber to receive new postings on e-CareManagement Blog. I’m writing to let you know about a shift in direction — the “e-CareManagement Blog” is becoming “The Healthcare Platform Blog”.
Many of the past themes will continue: Â technology, chronic disease management, care coordination, health IT, innovative business models and strategy, telehealth/virtual care, and others. Also continuing will be the spotlight ACROSS sectors of healthcare rather than within individual sectors, e.g., hospitals, pharma, devices.
Introducing The Healthcare Platform Blog
Will Google Health Platformize the Electronic Health Record Market?
by Vince Kuraitis, Edward G. Anderson, and Geoffrey Parker
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for the development of EHR 2.0 (electronic health record 2.0) – the next generation of EHRs with extended platform features and capabilities.
Who will answer this call? While existing EHR vendors have made modest efforts, the door is open for big tech companies and start-ups to develop functionality to envelop and disintermediate current EHRs. We highlight early efforts by Google Health Care Studio as having the potential to bring platform functionality to a sector of the healthcare industry known for resistance to change and innovation.
Read the full article in The Health Care Blog.
Do Virtual Care Platforms Compete With Local Care Providers? It’s Complicated
by Vince Kuraitis and Thomas Wilson, Ph.D
We describe eight ways in which virtual care platforms (VCPs) are “potentially” competitive with local care providers:
1) Low Acuity/Episodic Care
2) Virtual Primary Care
3) Specialist Care
4) Chronic Disease Management
5) Second Opinions
6) Specialized Populations/Conditions
7) “Selling Ammunition to the Enemy”
8) […]
Healthcare Delivery Disrupted? The Rise Of Platforms In Healthcare
by Seth Joseph and Vince Kuraitis
If the taxi industry was so easily disrupted by platform businesses, could the healthcare industry be next? Are there characteristics these two industries share (or distinguish them from each other) that can help us understand the role platforms can play in healthcare? And why does it make sense to ask these questions now?
Seth Joseph and I address these questions in our Forbes article “Healthcare Delivery Disrupted: The Rise of Platforms in Healthcare“.