Patients are increasingly make healthcare decisions like consumers, revealing a preference for on-demand care, with new primary care service offerings from large retailers like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens and Walmart as a catalyst. With their immense scale and strong consumer loyalty, these retailers are well positioned to cater to evolving patient preferences. Nevertheless, the growth of retail-based care has altered “traditional” care pathways, as an increasing number of consumer-friendly access points serve to fragment care coordination. Ultimately, these new care models and players are disintermediating “legacy” healthcare providers, making care more compartmentalized, transactional and detached.
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Source: https://www.trillianthealth.com/insights/the-compass/the-traditional-care-pathway-is-becoming-disintermediated