Rural hybrid care provider Homeward announced the appointment of its first chief medical officer, Dr. Greg Burrell, a practicing internal medicine physician.
Burrell will oversee the company's clinical and navigation strategy across quality assurance and markets, work to enhance the member experience, and support healthcare systems.
He formerly served as chief medical officer at employer health-...
QuantHealth, an Israeli AI-enabled clinical trial-design startup, announced that David Dornstreich is joining the company as its general manager and chief commercial officer of U.S. operations, which marks its entry into the U.S. market.
Dornstreich previously held the role of senior vice president of business development at healthcare data company ConcertAI, vice president of strategic...
We’re witnessing massive demographic and market shifts that will accelerate the race to value-based healthcare. Case in point: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) predicts that Medicare Advantage enrollment will soon eclipse traditional Medicare for the first time.
With more people becoming eligible for Medicare than ever before, our healthcare system is experiencing the broad shift...
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota announced it had entered into a full-risk value-based care arrangement with hybrid startup Homeward that aims to increase access for rural Minnesotans.
The insurer and the rural healthcare startup said Medicare Advantage members in 24 Minnesota counties outside of the Twin Cities metropolitan area will be able to use Homeward's services. The company offers...
MobiHealthNews spoke with several digital health stakeholders about 2022's funding environment and how it affected digital health startups.
Investments in 2022 decreased drastically compared to the swells of financial capital raised in 2021, and that lack of funding forced companies to rethink their business models.
Read digital health execs' insights on how this year's decreased funding forced...
On paper, Medicare Advantage enables all the tools payers need to provide the plan of choice in rural communities. This potential, however, has generally not translated to real-world success for Medicare Advantage plans.
Despite consistent enrollment growth in metropolitan areas, rural markets remain relatively untapped. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) show market...
Like other virtual health technologies, remote patient monitoring grew in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One study published in JAMA Internal Medicine earlier this month found a steep incline in its use among traditional Medicare beneficiaries, increasing from 91 claims per 100,000 enrollees in February 2020 to 594 claims per 100,000 enrollees in September 2021.
Waqaas Al-Siddiq, CEO of...
Accessing and delivering healthcare in rural areas is a challenge in the U.S. Rural Americans face health disparities compared with their urban counterparts, and must travel further to get to a hospital. Meanwhile, hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and nineteen shut their doors in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this year, CEO Dr. Jennifer Schneider,...
Rural health startup Homeward is partnering with Rite Aid to connect seniors with clinical services like wellness visits and screenings.
The collaboration will allow Rite Aid pharmacists to send Medicare-eligible customers to Homeward for care. Additionally, Homeward's mobile care units will be available at some Rite Aid locations in rural Michigan, with the goal of expanding into additional...
Providing healthcare for rural Americans is ripe for innovation. Compared with their urban counterparts, rural Americans have worse health outcomes: According to the CDC, they're more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, COPD and stroke.
Meanwhile, they face longer travel times and less access to providers. More than 180 rural hospitals in the U.S. have closed since...
