JAMA Study Shows American’s with Primary Care Physicians Receive More High-Value Care, Even as Millennials Reject Traditional Healthcare Settings

Clinical laboratories that help patients access care more quickly could prevent declines in test orders and physician referrals Millennials are increasingly opting to visit urgent-care centers and walk-in healthcare clinics located in retail establishments. And those choices are changing the healthcare industry, including clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups, which traditionally have been aligned with the primary care model. However, research published in JAMA Internal Medicine...

Skepticism, Distrust of HIT by Healthcare Consumers Undermines Physician Adoption of Medical Reporting Technologies, But Is Opportunity for Pathology Groups, Clinical Laboratories

New studies show number of Americans who are unwilling to reveal private health information is growing, hindering medical technology developers Healthcare consumers appear not only to be raising their expectations of the quality of care they receive, but also in the privacy and security of their protected health information (PHI) as well. This is an important development for clinical laboratories and pathology groups, since they hold large quantities of patient test data. News reports indicate...
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