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Innovative AI in Healthcare: Insights from HealthTap's CMO and Cofounder Geoffrey Rutledge. In a recent HealthTap study, GPT-4 outperformed physicians in diagnostic accuracy for both common and challenging cases. Achieving a 100% accuracy rate for common scenarios and 61% for complex cases (versus 49% for experienced doctors), GPT-4 demonstrates its potential to enhance healthcare diagnostics and improve patient outcomes. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eYdBtJEK #HealthTech #AIinMedicine #HealthcareInnovation #GPT4

The benefits of virtual primary care include improved adherence, higher post-discharge visit completions, and unmatched convenience. Virtual care builds strong doctor-patient relationships while offering cost-effective solutions. Learn more about the advantages of virtual primary care in Geoffrey Rutledge' latest article. #VirtualPrimaryCare #PrimaryCare #digitalhealth #HealthTap

We are thrilled to share that our CEO, Sean K Mehra, has been recognized with The Top Digital Health Leaders award!  HealthTap is honored to receive this prestigious recognition, celebrating our commitment to innovation and excellence in digital health. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who nominated someone this year. Congratulations to all the honorees! #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #Innovation #TopLeaders #HealthTap Slice of Healthcare

"The healthcare system isn’t broken. It’s working as designed, and it’s in dire need of a redesign. Value-based care is clearly one improved design of economic incentives to bring the power and motivation back into the hands of providers." Thank you, Wilson Sonsini, for a frank discussion with our CEO, Sean K Mehra, about leadership at the forefront of digital health alongside other fellow luminaries at Wilson Sonsini’s 31st Annual Digital Health and Medical Device Conference last week. #healthcare #digitalhealth #healthcareinnovation

More than 280 million Americans can now use their insurance to access affordable virtual primary care with our online doctors, including in-network coverage for traditional Medicare members. Our payer-agnostic approach ensures we can support both individual patients and organizations (ACOs, Medicare Advantage plans, employers, health systems, retailers, etc.) looking for a scalable, seamless virtual care partner. Thanks to Fierce Healthcare and Paige Minemyer for covering our insurance expansion news.  #healthcare #digitalhealth #telemedicine #virtualcare #primarycare https://lnkd.in/eQMZJNE2

"One of the most efficient and cost-effective ways of fixing inequities in the delivery and accessibility of healthcare is to make experienced primary healthcare providers available via telehealth."  - Geoffrey Rutledge, Chief Medical Officer and HealthTap Cofounder. #HealthTap #virtualprimarycare #healthequity #mentalhealthinequities #telehealth https://lnkd.in/e_PdafwE

🎙️ Why is virtual primary care not just a trend—it's a necessity? Our Chief Medical Officer, Geoffrey Rutledge, and Chief Commercial Officer, Craig Hittle, had a great discussion with Ellen Brown and David Pavlik on the Reverse Mullet Healthcare Podcast by BP2 Health, recorded live at #VIVE2024. We explore how HealthTap is lowering the barriers to access healthcare and empowering patients to take control of their health journey. We also dive into the pivotal role of A.I. in streamlining healthcare delivery, ensuring quality care is efficient and accessible for all. 🔗 Check it out via Youtube https://lnkd.in/eTNUqW7p here or on your podcast app of choice here https://lnkd.in/enC3-8Ce. #HealthTap #VirtualCare #PrimaryCare #Telehealth #AI #HealthcareInnovation #PatientEmpowerment #HealthJourney

Transactional telehealth models and retail primary care clinics have unfortunately proven untenable: well intended solutions, but underutilized and with impossible economics. There’s a clear mandate to learn from these failures and innovate more intelligently. HealthTap believes virtual-first, relationship based, longitudinal primary care is what will ultimately deliver real and sustainable value. Here are two thought pieces from our Chief Commercial Officer, Craig Hittle and Chief Medical Officer, Geoffrey Rutledge. 💡 From Craig Hittle: Henry Ford famously said: “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently”. The continued barrage of news surrounding the failure of transactional telehealth and retail primary care clinics models is eye opening. We MUST learn from these experiences and be more intelligent about how we engage with the behavioral and economic realities of delivering primary care. Here’s our take and call to action: 1️⃣ Investing in virtual first care is the ONLY way to create long term sustainable healthcare economics in primary care. Primary care has traditionally been a money loser and too capital intensive -  it's just the sobering reality. But because it is the quarterback of our healthcare system, let’s pull back on the brick/mortar building brigade and double down on the longitudinal virtual care delivery infrastructure and experience. 2️⃣ We must add primary care capacity, access, and quality without making it cost prohibitive and so negative ROI. This requires virtual solutions that scale, that are high quality, that address a majority of primary care needs, and that support appropriate triage to in person care as needed. 3️⃣ Care must be longitudinal and truly relationship based to create real value. Healthcare is personal and sacred. OUT with the random and transactional doctor urgent care model and IN with the concierge level PCP. Patients deserve this, and providers in their heart of hearts want this. 4️⃣ Virtual providers must make it easy to share info and talk to in person providers via an integratable platform. Tech companies that have purpose built virtual care platforms with deep integration capabilities will win, and this goes beyond the ubiquitous "API". 5️⃣ We must prevent excessive turf competition with PCPs constantly fighting about attribution and instead allow them to practice top of license, give them options to deliver and coordinate care, and still achieve desirable economics. Most PCPs are too busy to take on new patients anyways! Alternatively, we need to enable health systems, PCPs and ACOs to concurrently maintain control of their existing panels while also expanding their services, reach and economics. Systems leverage virtual care providers as extensions of existing medical groups, providing much more cost effective care under existing payer contracts and VBC arrangements and funneling speciality and in person care needs within the high value health system.