In just the past few months, we’ve seen the launch of Amazon Care, Instacart adding medical deliveries, and The Villages senior community welcoming virtual care to their homes.
Welcome to the growing ecosystem of hybrid health care, anywhere and everywhere.
In my latest post on the Medecision portal, I discuss the phenomenon and examples of early models, focusing in on Evernorth, a Cigna company.
As we add new so-called “digital front doors” to health care delivery, we should be mindful to design in access and equity and avoid further fragmentation of an already-fragmented healthcare system.
To do so, we can learn from new thinking coming out of the AMA’s Blueprint for Optimizing Digitally-Enabled Care. Note in the AMA’s six pillars, we see a patient focus, equitable design, bolstering relationships, reducing fragmentation, scaling evidence-based models, and incentivizing value-based care.
Read more on the Medecision site.
One of the best aspects of my work is collaborating across the health/care ecosystem to address how health citizens can deal with health care costs and and care for families. I'm grateful to have collaborated with Fidelity on their research into this issue, 
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I’m celebrating America’s 250th birthday both patriotically and professionally, honored that the NLM included my 2010 paper, “How Smartphones Are Changing Healthcare for Consumers and Patients” as one of 250 items curated for the digital archive of 250 Years of American Medicine.