How Healthcare's New Front Door is Opening Up Opportunities

July 1, 2015

For decades, the main front door to the healthcare system has been a provider-centric blend of primary care, specialty care, and the ER.  All bricks and mortar, almost always on the provider’s schedule, and a cold first encounter. In the past few years, providers, retailers, consumer technology organizations, and even payers have been investing in new forms of access and care – with an eye towards offering modalities that are approachable, always available, easy to navigate, lower cost, and transparently priced. Here are some of the new entrances – the new front doors – consumers are using to cross the threshold into the healthcare system.

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