Why Digital Health May Repeat the Failures of Retail Primary Care
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Ann Somers Hogg
Summary
This article examines the parallels between the failure of past innovative primary care models (like retail clinics) and the current wave of digital health enthusiasm. The author argues that without addressing fundamental cost structures and business model sustainability, today's healthcare transformation efforts—particularly in digital health—may face the same fate as retail primary care. Drawing on insights from Blake Madden's primary care manifesto and the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), the piece suggests that true innovation requires changing the underlying economic equation rather than just layering technology on top of broken systems.
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bskyWhy Digital Health May Repeat the Failures of Retail Primary Care4sighthealth.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledI had an ah-ha about the connection between what we're currently seeing in digital health enthusiasm and past innovative primary care models.
If you didn't read Madden's piece, the gist of the argument...
How Today's Healthcare Transformation Efforts Can Avoid Retail Primary Care's Fate
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