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I’ll be referring to the research, with gratitude, over the coming months for my own work with clients spanning the health/care ecosystem. health care financing. The line chart here illustrates one piece of the Report’s section on “Unraveling Health,” showing that primarycare volumes in the U.S.
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Rodgers has over 25 years of health careexperience, including homecare, insurance, consulting and employee benefits. Her expertise will be critical in clearing the future hurdles we face to best serve the thousands of Minnesotans who need care at home.”
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.” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. There’s a convergence and blur in the center here, with primarycare and ambulatory care getting the attention they merit as lower-cost and more appropriate sites of care.
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.” Then add in “sweet teams are made of this,” and you have the making of telehealth enabling health/care across the continuum, as I show in my drawing here. Sweet teams are increasingly inter-disciplinary, including primarycare, bundling in mental health, health coaches and nutritionists.
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