Healthcare providers want to break free of the broken throughput model of healthcare delivery they inherited and instead embrace a more relationship-based, patient-centered model of care.
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Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos gave a glimpse Aug. 26 into what the discount store chain's healthcare strategy is for its 17,000 U.S. stores.
Walmart has hired Brian Setzer as its new senior vice president and CFO of Walmart Health and Wellness, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Aug. 27.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is the hallmark of the robotic surgery program at Inova, a leading five-hospital health system based in Falls Church, Va. John Moynihan, MD, President of Inova Surgery Service Line — which includes robotic surgery — attributed the success…
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