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WellBe Senior Medical CEO On Demonstrating Value To Payers In The Home

Home Health Care

It basically changed home health from a fee-for-service per-diem model into a bundled or capitated model, similar to a hospital DRG episode. When I look at home care, or personal care, that largely hasn’t changed. A long time ago, home-based primary care was the norm. It’s completely flipped.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

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After he passed unexpectedly, we spent time with those folks who saw a meaningful decline coming, and yet that information wasn't being shared with the formal healthcare team, definitely not his insurance company, and not with his family in a way that we could intervene to try to change his care trajectory. Healthcare is hard.

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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Take a visit to your primary care physician, for example. Kaiser Permanente uses digital twins through a system that improves patient flow within a hospital. It achieves this by combining structured and unstructured data to build a more complete view of each patient to anticipate what their needs will be at the hospital.

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. The manner in which I have to communicate with my mom’s primary care provider is woefully behind.

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‘Much Bigger Opportunity’: BrightSpring Enters The Public Market With Ambitious Growth Goals

Home Health Care

“There’s 5% of the population that makes up 50% of the spend in health care,” Rousseau said. Everybody needs their medications managed, everybody needs a doctor. It wants to leverage its home-based primary care capabilities to serve its patients in value-based models. And where they’re at is in the home.

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Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

Topics include, the barriers to obtaining an accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), condensing the patient experience into a single CAT scan, the data supporting the new technology, and why 80% of the top 50 heart hospitals in the US use HeartFlow. And in about 30 to 40% of coronary CTs this will be applicable.’’

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WelbeHealth’s Michael Le On The Future Of Innovative At-Home Care Models

Home Health Care

His impressive resume — which also includes time at Optum Home & Community Care and CareMore Health Plan — places him at the forefront of the movement bringing more care to the home and the community. It all started with, in Le’s words, the image of “the revered small-town doc with his black doctor’s bag doing house calls.”