This is an excellent article showcasing an important industry change. Couple this with the explosion of the urgent care industry and the continual “retailization” of healthcare further establishes the incredible opportunity for emergency medicine to define and bring to the table its value metrics for the new landscape. It is fast becoming a time when the specialty will need definitive agreement on those metrics to prevent others from defining those metrics for the specialty.
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June 20, 2014
John HThis is an excellent article showcasing an important industry change. Couple this with the explosion of the urgent care industry and the continual “retailization” of healthcare further establishes the incredible opportunity for emergency medicine to define and bring to the table its value metrics for the new landscape. It is fast becoming a time when the specialty will need definitive agreement on those metrics to prevent others from defining those metrics for the specialty.