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The goal is to provide patients in rural and underservedr urban areaswith real-time, remote docto appointments. The technology in some cases will reach patientevia 18-wheel trucks carrying videoconfering equipment. The according to UnitedHealth, will “help mitigate disparities in healthcare delivery.” UnitedHealth Group is the parenyt of UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. Also Thursday, UnitedHealtuh said it has hired Dr. Jim Woodburnh as vice president and medicao directorof telehealth. Woodburn was previously chief medicao officer forMinute Clinic, the pioneering chain of retail-based clinic that was acquired by in 1996.
Woodburn, alonbg with Stephan Rodgers, executive vice president of strategic initiatives at UnitedHealthsubsidiary OptumHealth, will lead the telehealth UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) and Cisco official s will disclose more details of their partnershi p at a news conferenc in Washington, D.C. next Wednesday. UnitedHealtg has been long had a major presence the health informationtechnologyg market, largely through its Ingenix In April, it launched a low-costf electronic medical-records tool called CareTracker. Last month, OptumHealth said it was partnerintgwith Boston-based American to offedr a 24/7 service that allows people to obtainb immediate access to a physician over a computer or phone.
Next week’z news conference in Washington is part of a seriezs of announcements UnitedHealth has been makinyg as it seeks to shaps the healthreform debate. In a June 30 UnitedHealth claimed the healtb care system couldsave $332 billion over the next 10 yearas if health providers update their UnitedHealth previously argued that the federal government could save $540 billion in Medicare costs over the next 10 year if it implemented some of the programs UnitedHealth uses with its own
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