Telehealth September 19, 2024
Fabric is back at it again with another acquisition, this time scooping up the virtual care business of physician practice juggernaut TeamHealth. Here’s the updated timeline leading up to Fabric’s fourth acquisition in 18 months: That’s an unusually hot start for a startup still looking forward to its second birthday, but Fabric CEO Aniq Rahman […]
Artificial Intelligence September 16, 2024
Bain & Company’s US Frontline of Consumer Healthcare Survey turned up the surprising result that patients are more comfortable with generative AI “analyzing their radiology scan and making a diagnosis than answering the phone at their doctor’s office.” That’s quite the headline, but the authors were quick to point out that it’s probably less of […]
Value-Based Care September 12, 2024
Value-based care has worked better on paper than in practice, and a new research letter in JAMA Health Forum offers a possible explanation for the disparity: administrative overkill. The first-of-its-kind analysis tracked 890 primary care physicians in value-based care contracts from 2020 to 2022, finding that: The first bullet alone shocked the authors of the […]