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

Home Health Care

The last big change, which is fairly recent – let’s call it the WellBe Senior Medical model – is primary care or longitudinal care in the home. A long time ago, home-based primary care was the norm. We make money by keeping people healthy and out of the hospital. It’s completely flipped.

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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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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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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. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for establishing care-at-home models. 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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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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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.