Healthcare IT News June 13, 2022
Bill Siwicki

Virtual primary care understands a patient’s needs over time and helps them navigate to the right care – whether for urgent needs, a wellness visit, or specialty care.

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers’ expectations, some industry observers say.

When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. The situation results in increased ER and urgent care usage, undiagnosed chronic conditions, unmet mental health needs, and other problems, they add.

Rob Bressler, senior vice president of Primary360 at Teladoc Health, contends that virtual primary care inspires lasting relationships between patients and providers through a longitudinal care plan, continuous care team support and a unified whole-person...

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