LEADING HEALTH INNOVATORS FORM ALLIANCE TO ADVANCE CARE IN THE HOME
LEADING HEALTH INNOVATORS FORM ALLIANCE TO ADVANCE CARE IN THE HOME Coalition to focus on site of service flexibility for clinical care in the wake of COVID-19 WASHINGTON, March 3, 2021 – Today, a coalition of innovative health care companies launched an effort to fundamentally change the way policymakers think about the home as a site of clinical service. [...]
How Covid-19 could usher in a new role for continuous glucose monitoring in hospitals
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Talking on the phone for 10 minutes could make you feel less lonely, study says
Half of the 240 study participants were selected to receive brief phone calls from volunteers over the course of a month, and they reported feeling 20% less lonely on average, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Reimagining the Way Healthcare is Delivered
This case study dives into how MultiCare: Came to the conclusion they needed an innovative approach to break the readmission cycle Integrated the new service within the health system to provide high acuity medical care in the home Treated patients at an appropriate level of care to realize $1,509 in cost savings per patient Provided exceptional patient satisfaction Addressed [...]
The Value of Home Health Care
BY TOM DASCHLE & BILL FRIST June 3, 2020 Former Senators and Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist issued an op-ed noting the importance of home-based care and technologies to enable home-based care. The former Sens. call for policymakers to think, “beyond essential medical services and consider the non-medical drivers of health that are often as essential to good [...]