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

Home Health Care

For about 10 years, I was running a group practice, doing that, caring for people in nursing homes, in the home etc. The big difference, probably, in the last maybe 10 to 15 years is that Medicaid, state agencies, have actually started paying for it, as part of an effort to keep people out of nursing homes and in the home.

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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.”

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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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Taking Back The Business of Healthcare with Preston Alexander| E. 67

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Preston explains that the principal issue with US healthcare is its profit-driven approach, why healthcare must be a forward-thinking Netflix, rather than an obsolete Blockbuster, and why the nursing shortage is the result of a broken system. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short. What goes into all that?”

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

Healthcare It News

At Medicity, we were serving 1,300 hospitals, facilitating lots of data exchange across hospitals, primary care and labs, but nothing we were doing was ever going to touch the home and community. In a hospital, you hit the "nurse call button" if you're not feeling well or something isn't right.

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Optimizing Healthcare for Heart Disease with HeartFlow | E. 62

Vie Healthcare

20:30 The importance of data in making treatment decisions Lauren said the data supporting HeartFlow helps to ensure doctors don’t put stents into people who don’t need them. ‘’A And there is a risk, there really is a risk of doctors putting stents in people who don’t need them.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally recognized medical facilities across three states. Not one of those people who comes from a family of doctors or anything like that either. Today, we’re 300,000 nurses short.