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Home Care Conference: A Discussion with WellSky

Home Health Care

The interview took place at the Home Care Conference in Chicago held on December 9, 2021. Kunu has worked in many different healthcare and home-based health roles. In 2010, he started Senior Solutions Home Care inspired with a motivation to help his own aging grandparents. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

Patients most frequently make visits for primary or preventive care, followed by seeing a specialist, and seeking urgent care, the first bar chart illustrates. See that urgent care visits were more likely sought by younger patients under 43.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, note how patients’ trust and belief in the healthcare ecosystem has grown — and especially for health care providers. We should expect COVID-19 to continue to accelerate this trend to “consumer-directed virtual care” and the emergence of the hospital-at-home care.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

Urgent care clinics or freestanding ERs, preferred by more Latinx patients. This relates to another key data point that illustrates patients’ shift to a health consumer mindset: their willingness to seek care in lower-cost settings based on costs.

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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

.” 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. In addition, post-acute and long-term care, infusions, and dialysis exist but require a more complete offering to scale to the home.

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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

Health Populi

This is especially useful for the long-underserved and -supplied mental health and therapy market, which is persisting more consistently post-COVID and the public health emergency that telehealth for primary and urgent care.

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Food, Cars, and Tech: Here’s How U.S. Consumers Rank Companies’ Reputations – the 2022 Axios-Harris Poll

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Our homes are increasingly the site of our health care — self-care through the traditional over-the-counter medicines channel, but more primary care and urgent care being conducted through telehealth and virtual care “digital front doors” as the current lingo coins it.