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

Home Health Care

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. Bedrock had a 9% readmission rate in its clinical practice. We’re playing a team sport,” Gomez said.

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

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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

Health Populi

Recent research from a team at Harvard Medical School made the case for virtual-first, outcomes-based primary care that enabled the care team to build engaged and trusting relationships with patients and families – “reconnecting team members with joy in clinical practice,” as the researchers noted.

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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Healthcare It News

Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health, whose population health management platform helps risk-bearing organizations manage the cost and quality demands of value-based reimbursement, would like to see a wholesale effort to improve the care delivery system writ large. Here's what they had to say.

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