Dear Colleagues:

In this exclusive interview, Paul Elsass, Senior Vice President Business Development, Vivante Health, discusses a coordinated care model for digital health in the digestive disease space.

This issue brings you the recent partnership of Avizia and VeeMed, CMS’s consideration of a direct provider contracting model and How Zika could be deadlier than Yellow Fever this year.

We also bring you the efforts of U.S. providers to fix complications from medical tourism procedures and how telehealth closes patient care access gaps in rural Mississippi.

Thank you for your interest in this exciting, growing market space. We welcome your comments and/or editorial contributions, which can be sent directly to: [email protected].

Laura Carabello
Editor and Publisher