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Bedrock Healthcare at Home Leans On Technology To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital

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Andre Gomez, the executive vice president of Bedrock Healthcare at Home, said he learned that the hard way during his first job in home health care almost 20 years ago. It’s also hoping to better care for patients as they become more sick and complex when discharged to home health or other settings.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

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Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. The program resulted in a reduction of both trips to the emergency department and hospitalizations among patients dealing with congestive heart failure. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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What is P4P? How It Is Affecting Healthcare Overall?

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It offers financial incentives to the providers (groups/hospitals/individuals) for the quality of patient care services they perform. How many or what percentage of doctors have board certification? ? What’s the proportion of patients to providers? Pay-for-Performance initiatives intend to raise the standard of care given.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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“Racial and ethnic inequities in the US health care system have been unremitting since the beginning of the country. The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. health care. .” colonoscopy).

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22 Executive Digital Health Predictions to Watch in 2023

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These players are honing in on at-home medical services and primary care, extending their reach deeper into the care continuum and blurring the lines between who owns what part of the space. In the olden days, before hospitals and doctors’ offices were commonplace, most people were treated by doctors who made house calls.

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

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Walter Ricciardi, who leads the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy’s National Institute of Health); and, Dr. Cesar Faldini, president of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, a top hospital, academic and research center for orthopedics and trauma. Adopting a strategy of ‘slow medicine’ may be more rewarding in many situations.

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