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Executive Hires: Walgreens Appoints New CEO, Cityblock Health, Innovaccer, Others

AbleTo, Advisory Board, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Autism, AVIA, behavioral health, Behavioral Telehealth, cancer, Care Coordination, Cerner, Cityblock Health, Cognoa, Data-Driven Healthcare, digital health, Digital Health Hires, Digital Medicine, Elsevier, health innovation, Health IT, Health Systems, healthcare and technology, healthcare technology, Innovaccer, IPO, Livongo, Lumeon, News, Oncology, Partners, patient experience, Philips, PhysIQ, Population Health, R1, R1 RCM, rcm, StayWell, Telehealth, Telemedicine, venture capital, Walgreens, WebMD, Wellcentive / February 5, 2021 February 5, 2021

Walgreens appoints Rosalind (Roz) Brewer as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective on March 15, 2021. Brewer will also join the WBA Board of Directors upon assuming the role. She succeeds Stefano Pessina who, as previously announced, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of WBA. Brewer, 58, will become the …

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Getting Beyond the Telehealth ‘Stop-Gap’ Mentality

care management, chronic care, clinical workflows, CMS, Coronavirus (COVID-19), healthcare and technology, HHS, hipaa, Interoperability, MD, Opinion, Partners, patient experience, Payers, PHI, Physicians, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, Telehealth, Telemedicine, transcription, video, virtual care / October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020

Roland Therriault, President, InSync Healthcare Solutions Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46% of patients reported in late April that they had used telehealth to replace a canceled healthcare visit in 2020, while 48% of physicians said they had started using telehealth to treat patients. …