The document discusses building a new healthcare system from scratch using modern technologies and principles. It argues that existing systems focus too much on treating sickness rather than maintaining health. A new system would use technologies like telehealth, machine learning, and drones to scale healthcare access and education by empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own health. Key aspects would include virtual doctor visits, at-home recovery after outpatient clinics replace hospitals, and empowering people with health information through platforms like "Doctor Google". The goal is an affordable, scalable system that promotes equitable access to healthcare worldwide.
"see blue." U 2015 | University Health Services' Parent Presentationukyenroll
University Health Service (UHS) is an on-campus clinic available to full-time UK students who pay a health fee each semester. The health fee covers unlimited primary care visits, women's health services, behavioral health visits, wellness programs, and more. Part-time students can pay the health fee or pay per visit. The fee does not cover diagnostic tests, hospitalization, prescriptions, or specialist visits, so students are encouraged to have additional health insurance. UHS has physicians, nurses, and other staff available weekdays from 8am to 6pm and Saturday mornings, with an on-call physician after hours. Students can make same-day appointments by phone or online.
Helen C. Ogwo Orji is a compassionate and patient-focused graduate nurse seeking a growth-oriented role. She has over 10 years of experience in various healthcare roles including certified nurse aide, medication aide, and home health aide. She is certified as a nurse aide and medication aide. Her experience demonstrates strong skills in medication administration, holistic patient care, compliance with regulations, and communication. She has a bachelor's degree in nursing and associate's degree in science.
Stepping up Pediatric Patient Safety (Chris Dickinson)Ashleigh Kades
Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, November 2-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.
The meeting will provide updates on staffing changes at The Docs practice, introduce the new Mental Health Practitioner role, discuss building developments, review the services available through the local Primary Care Network, and address questions from patients. Key points include:
- Welcoming new GP registrars and saying goodbye to a departing doctor.
- The Mental Health Practitioner will take a trauma-informed approach, facilitating self-management, access to treatment, and brief interventions.
- 10,182 patients are now registered at The Docs, with 193 waiting to register.
- COVID protocols like masks and cleaning remain in place.
- Attendees can suggest topics for the next Patient Participation Group meeting.
This meeting covered the following topics in 3 sentences or less:
The PCN was discussed, including what a PCN is, the practices that make up their PCN, and the workforce available through the PCN. Their website and move to online forms was reviewed. An update on COVID-19 protocols and the upcoming flu vaccine rollout starting September 11th was provided.
This document discusses improving the patient experience in primary health care. It outlines issues with the current system such as fragmented care, access problems, and feelings of disempowerment among patients. Data shows many patients experience long wait times, lack of communication between providers, and doctors not spending enough time with them. The document calls for a more coordinated, comprehensive, and consumer-centered primary health care system to address these issues.
This document discusses nurturing a culture of patient safety at Landspítali University Hospital in Iceland. It provides statistics on the hospital's size and services. It also describes ongoing safety improvement projects, including daily safety checks, systematic ward rounds, and incident analysis. Repeated problems found in analyses include insufficient patient monitoring, communication breakdowns, and lack of documentation. The document emphasizes that improving safety requires an open culture where mistakes are acknowledged and used as opportunities to learn and improve, and challenges to developing this culture further are discussed.
"see blue." U 2015 | University Health Services' Parent Presentationukyenroll
University Health Service (UHS) is an on-campus clinic available to full-time UK students who pay a health fee each semester. The health fee covers unlimited primary care visits, women's health services, behavioral health visits, wellness programs, and more. Part-time students can pay the health fee or pay per visit. The fee does not cover diagnostic tests, hospitalization, prescriptions, or specialist visits, so students are encouraged to have additional health insurance. UHS has physicians, nurses, and other staff available weekdays from 8am to 6pm and Saturday mornings, with an on-call physician after hours. Students can make same-day appointments by phone or online.
Helen C. Ogwo Orji is a compassionate and patient-focused graduate nurse seeking a growth-oriented role. She has over 10 years of experience in various healthcare roles including certified nurse aide, medication aide, and home health aide. She is certified as a nurse aide and medication aide. Her experience demonstrates strong skills in medication administration, holistic patient care, compliance with regulations, and communication. She has a bachelor's degree in nursing and associate's degree in science.
Stepping up Pediatric Patient Safety (Chris Dickinson)Ashleigh Kades
Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, November 2-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.
The meeting will provide updates on staffing changes at The Docs practice, introduce the new Mental Health Practitioner role, discuss building developments, review the services available through the local Primary Care Network, and address questions from patients. Key points include:
- Welcoming new GP registrars and saying goodbye to a departing doctor.
- The Mental Health Practitioner will take a trauma-informed approach, facilitating self-management, access to treatment, and brief interventions.
- 10,182 patients are now registered at The Docs, with 193 waiting to register.
- COVID protocols like masks and cleaning remain in place.
- Attendees can suggest topics for the next Patient Participation Group meeting.
This meeting covered the following topics in 3 sentences or less:
The PCN was discussed, including what a PCN is, the practices that make up their PCN, and the workforce available through the PCN. Their website and move to online forms was reviewed. An update on COVID-19 protocols and the upcoming flu vaccine rollout starting September 11th was provided.
This document discusses improving the patient experience in primary health care. It outlines issues with the current system such as fragmented care, access problems, and feelings of disempowerment among patients. Data shows many patients experience long wait times, lack of communication between providers, and doctors not spending enough time with them. The document calls for a more coordinated, comprehensive, and consumer-centered primary health care system to address these issues.
This document discusses nurturing a culture of patient safety at Landspítali University Hospital in Iceland. It provides statistics on the hospital's size and services. It also describes ongoing safety improvement projects, including daily safety checks, systematic ward rounds, and incident analysis. Repeated problems found in analyses include insufficient patient monitoring, communication breakdowns, and lack of documentation. The document emphasizes that improving safety requires an open culture where mistakes are acknowledged and used as opportunities to learn and improve, and challenges to developing this culture further are discussed.
Mary Dunnion, Deputy Director of Regulation Health and Children's Services, HIQAInvestnet
This document outlines the journey of regulation in Ireland's healthcare system from 2007 to 2014. It discusses the national standards that were developed for various healthcare services over this period. It also notes the priorities of quality, safety, and patient experience that must be balanced with efficiency amidst austerity measures. Finally, it outlines the regulatory approach going forward from 2014 which includes risk-based inspections, quality improvement initiatives, and developing standards for general practice care.
This document summarizes the business case for remote patient monitoring. It outlines how remote monitoring has progressed from initial technologies to integrated virtual care solutions. It shows how new care delivery models incentivize providers to adopt remote monitoring to reduce costs and improve outcomes. Studies show remote monitoring can significantly reduce hospitalizations, ER visits, and costs for patients with chronic conditions. The document concludes by describing opportunities for hospitals, physicians, and post-acute providers to leverage remote monitoring.
Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, November 2-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.
Brenna Siscoe is an experienced nurse seeking a position in epidemiology. She has a Master's in Public Health, Epidemiology from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor's in Nursing. She has over a year of experience as a registered nurse in medical/surgical intensive care. She also has certifications in BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NIHSS. In addition to her clinical experience, she has volunteered with a food pantry and mentored adolescents.
Malaria situation and progress towards malaria controlNajibullah Safi
The document discusses progress and challenges towards malaria control in Afghanistan. It provides an overview of malaria risk and transmission in the country, as well as control efforts through the public health sector and integrated approaches. These efforts have led to declines in both vivax and falciparum malaria cases since 2002. However, challenges remain regarding service delivery, vector control, health system issues like coordination and capacity, and socio-political stability. Prospects for continued control and eventual elimination are uncertain due to these challenges, despite existing effective tools.
This presentation shows the importance of HIPAA compliance and correct handling procedures of medical records. This is a training tool used to help protect patient confidentiality.
The document outlines the development of a toolkit to help implement patient-initiated clinics for long-term conditions in secondary care. It notes current issues with long wait times for follow-up appointments in outpatient settings and the risks to patients when they are unable to schedule timely appointments when unwell. The proposed toolkit is evidence-based and provides templates and guidance for key decision points to help departments establish flexible patient-initiated clinics, while also suggesting ways to monitor their success.
This document outlines the topics covered in a four-day WECAN education strategy program, including research and data, healthcare systems and policy, advocacy tools and skills, and disease and care. It encourages participants to provide feedback, make use of what they learned, continue networking across cancers and countries by following WECAN, and get involved in future programs. The document thanks the sponsors, speakers, organizers, and participating organizations and individuals for their contributions to the program.
Medical assistants play an important role in physicians' offices and clinics by handling both administrative and clinical duties. They are trained to take patient vital signs, medical histories, assist with examinations, perform lab tests, administer medications and injections, and instruct patients on self-care. Medical assisting is a one-to-two year program available at community colleges and accredited institutions, and includes coursework in anatomy, medical terminology, administrative skills, and a required internship. Employment opportunities are excellent and expected to grow rapidly in settings like physicians' offices, hospitals, and specialty practices.
Medical assistants complete clinical and administrative tasks within a medical organization. Their work supports doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, ensuring that the organization runs smoothly.
Find out more about the Infusion care services we offerNelonPty
SA Home Care is the only doctor-led multidisciplinary homecare organisation in South Africa. Our services go beyond traditional home nursing offered by other service providers.
A medical doctor will prescribe the infusions and a SA Home Care registered nurse will administer the infusions and liaise with the doctor.
Sarah J. Higgins is an ambitious and detail-oriented registered nurse with experience in cardiac units, ICU, pediatrics, elderly care, and physical therapy. She has over 660 clinical hours working in intensive care, emergency departments, obstetrics, pediatrics, and medical/surgical units. Higgins received her Bachelor's in Nursing from Bradley University in 2014 and maintains licensure in Illinois and is pursuing licensure in Georgia. She also has experience as an NCAA Division I athlete and volunteer.
Professor Louisa Jorm - Director, Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Australia. http://www.garvan.org.au/news-events/leaders-in-science-and-society
Elderly care conference 2017 - Workshop stream C - National guidance on learn...Browne Jacobson LLP
This document provides guidance on learning from deaths in healthcare settings based on a review that found mortality reviews were not prioritizing opportunities for improvement. It outlines a 3-level approach to reviewing deaths: certification, case record reviews of certain categories of deaths, and investigations. Hospitals must update policies by September 2017 on learning from deaths, including specific populations, and collect specified mortality data quarterly. The guidance stresses engaging families, implementing learning, and a systematic approach to mortality governance at board level.
The Medical School Startup (Edward Ellison)Ashleigh Kades
Kaiser Permanente is establishing a new medical school with an innovative curriculum focused on patient-centered, evidence-based, and team-based care. The school will be embedded within Kaiser Permanente's integrated health care delivery system, providing an unparalleled training environment. The curriculum will emphasize foundational sciences, immediate clinical immersion, and a spiral curriculum. The goals are to refine medical education methods, increase physician workforce diversity, train students within a culture that values wellness, immerse students in clinical settings with a focus on social determinants of health, leverage Kaiser Permanente's integrated care model, and educate new kinds of physicians to improve community health.
This document discusses the role of Urgent Care Practitioners (UCPs) in providing same-day appointments and telephone consultations to patients at a general practice, in order to increase access and reduce wait times. It finds that over the past 6 months, a UCP led over 70% of appointments, allowing GPs more time for other tasks. The author advocates expanding the UCP role to more practices to improve patient satisfaction and primary care services.
The document summarizes the various medical services provided across eight patient care areas at The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) in Toronto, Canada. Key services discussed include emergency and urgent care departments treating over 100,000 people annually; maternal and childcare services including a family-centered birthing unit; one of the largest nephrology programs in North America serving over 6,000 kidney patients; mental health programs providing services in multiple languages; and cancer care including medical oncologists close to home for Scarborough residents.
2014 Palmetto Care Connections Annual Meeting Presentationkfp1956
This document discusses remote patient monitoring and its role in addressing challenges in the current healthcare system. It outlines how remote patient monitoring can help transform care delivery from a volume-based model to a value-based model. It provides examples of remote patient monitoring programs that have demonstrated reductions in hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and costs through improved management of chronic conditions. The document concludes that remote patient monitoring presents opportunities to support new care delivery models and reimbursement approaches that focus on quality and value over volume.
The document outlines the various components of the healthcare ecosystem including managing personal health, health insurance, treating patients as a doctor, medical research, technology/applications, and data/records. It details the interactions between patients, doctors, insurers, advocacy groups, medical companies and various government agencies. The goal is to provide a comprehensive view of the people, processes, and information flows that constitute today's complex healthcare system.
Mary Dunnion, Deputy Director of Regulation Health and Children's Services, HIQAInvestnet
This document outlines the journey of regulation in Ireland's healthcare system from 2007 to 2014. It discusses the national standards that were developed for various healthcare services over this period. It also notes the priorities of quality, safety, and patient experience that must be balanced with efficiency amidst austerity measures. Finally, it outlines the regulatory approach going forward from 2014 which includes risk-based inspections, quality improvement initiatives, and developing standards for general practice care.
This document summarizes the business case for remote patient monitoring. It outlines how remote monitoring has progressed from initial technologies to integrated virtual care solutions. It shows how new care delivery models incentivize providers to adopt remote monitoring to reduce costs and improve outcomes. Studies show remote monitoring can significantly reduce hospitalizations, ER visits, and costs for patients with chronic conditions. The document concludes by describing opportunities for hospitals, physicians, and post-acute providers to leverage remote monitoring.
Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, November 2-4, 2016 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.
Brenna Siscoe is an experienced nurse seeking a position in epidemiology. She has a Master's in Public Health, Epidemiology from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor's in Nursing. She has over a year of experience as a registered nurse in medical/surgical intensive care. She also has certifications in BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NIHSS. In addition to her clinical experience, she has volunteered with a food pantry and mentored adolescents.
Malaria situation and progress towards malaria controlNajibullah Safi
The document discusses progress and challenges towards malaria control in Afghanistan. It provides an overview of malaria risk and transmission in the country, as well as control efforts through the public health sector and integrated approaches. These efforts have led to declines in both vivax and falciparum malaria cases since 2002. However, challenges remain regarding service delivery, vector control, health system issues like coordination and capacity, and socio-political stability. Prospects for continued control and eventual elimination are uncertain due to these challenges, despite existing effective tools.
This presentation shows the importance of HIPAA compliance and correct handling procedures of medical records. This is a training tool used to help protect patient confidentiality.
The document outlines the development of a toolkit to help implement patient-initiated clinics for long-term conditions in secondary care. It notes current issues with long wait times for follow-up appointments in outpatient settings and the risks to patients when they are unable to schedule timely appointments when unwell. The proposed toolkit is evidence-based and provides templates and guidance for key decision points to help departments establish flexible patient-initiated clinics, while also suggesting ways to monitor their success.
This document outlines the topics covered in a four-day WECAN education strategy program, including research and data, healthcare systems and policy, advocacy tools and skills, and disease and care. It encourages participants to provide feedback, make use of what they learned, continue networking across cancers and countries by following WECAN, and get involved in future programs. The document thanks the sponsors, speakers, organizers, and participating organizations and individuals for their contributions to the program.
Medical assistants play an important role in physicians' offices and clinics by handling both administrative and clinical duties. They are trained to take patient vital signs, medical histories, assist with examinations, perform lab tests, administer medications and injections, and instruct patients on self-care. Medical assisting is a one-to-two year program available at community colleges and accredited institutions, and includes coursework in anatomy, medical terminology, administrative skills, and a required internship. Employment opportunities are excellent and expected to grow rapidly in settings like physicians' offices, hospitals, and specialty practices.
Medical assistants complete clinical and administrative tasks within a medical organization. Their work supports doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, ensuring that the organization runs smoothly.
Find out more about the Infusion care services we offerNelonPty
SA Home Care is the only doctor-led multidisciplinary homecare organisation in South Africa. Our services go beyond traditional home nursing offered by other service providers.
A medical doctor will prescribe the infusions and a SA Home Care registered nurse will administer the infusions and liaise with the doctor.
Sarah J. Higgins is an ambitious and detail-oriented registered nurse with experience in cardiac units, ICU, pediatrics, elderly care, and physical therapy. She has over 660 clinical hours working in intensive care, emergency departments, obstetrics, pediatrics, and medical/surgical units. Higgins received her Bachelor's in Nursing from Bradley University in 2014 and maintains licensure in Illinois and is pursuing licensure in Georgia. She also has experience as an NCAA Division I athlete and volunteer.
Professor Louisa Jorm - Director, Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Australia. http://www.garvan.org.au/news-events/leaders-in-science-and-society
Elderly care conference 2017 - Workshop stream C - National guidance on learn...Browne Jacobson LLP
This document provides guidance on learning from deaths in healthcare settings based on a review that found mortality reviews were not prioritizing opportunities for improvement. It outlines a 3-level approach to reviewing deaths: certification, case record reviews of certain categories of deaths, and investigations. Hospitals must update policies by September 2017 on learning from deaths, including specific populations, and collect specified mortality data quarterly. The guidance stresses engaging families, implementing learning, and a systematic approach to mortality governance at board level.
The Medical School Startup (Edward Ellison)Ashleigh Kades
Kaiser Permanente is establishing a new medical school with an innovative curriculum focused on patient-centered, evidence-based, and team-based care. The school will be embedded within Kaiser Permanente's integrated health care delivery system, providing an unparalleled training environment. The curriculum will emphasize foundational sciences, immediate clinical immersion, and a spiral curriculum. The goals are to refine medical education methods, increase physician workforce diversity, train students within a culture that values wellness, immerse students in clinical settings with a focus on social determinants of health, leverage Kaiser Permanente's integrated care model, and educate new kinds of physicians to improve community health.
This document discusses the role of Urgent Care Practitioners (UCPs) in providing same-day appointments and telephone consultations to patients at a general practice, in order to increase access and reduce wait times. It finds that over the past 6 months, a UCP led over 70% of appointments, allowing GPs more time for other tasks. The author advocates expanding the UCP role to more practices to improve patient satisfaction and primary care services.
The document summarizes the various medical services provided across eight patient care areas at The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) in Toronto, Canada. Key services discussed include emergency and urgent care departments treating over 100,000 people annually; maternal and childcare services including a family-centered birthing unit; one of the largest nephrology programs in North America serving over 6,000 kidney patients; mental health programs providing services in multiple languages; and cancer care including medical oncologists close to home for Scarborough residents.
2014 Palmetto Care Connections Annual Meeting Presentationkfp1956
This document discusses remote patient monitoring and its role in addressing challenges in the current healthcare system. It outlines how remote patient monitoring can help transform care delivery from a volume-based model to a value-based model. It provides examples of remote patient monitoring programs that have demonstrated reductions in hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and costs through improved management of chronic conditions. The document concludes that remote patient monitoring presents opportunities to support new care delivery models and reimbursement approaches that focus on quality and value over volume.
The document outlines the various components of the healthcare ecosystem including managing personal health, health insurance, treating patients as a doctor, medical research, technology/applications, and data/records. It details the interactions between patients, doctors, insurers, advocacy groups, medical companies and various government agencies. The goal is to provide a comprehensive view of the people, processes, and information flows that constitute today's complex healthcare system.
Aaron Brizell - ECO 17: Transforming care through digital healthInnovation Agency
Presentation by Aaron Brizell, Population Health Programme Manager, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: The benefits of system-wide population health and analytics at ECO 17: Transforming care through digital health on Tuesday 4 December at Lancaster University, Lancaster
The document discusses strategies to promote institutional deliveries, specifically in Primary Health Centres (PHCs). It outlines the benefits of institutional deliveries including access to skilled birth attendants, equipment, treatment of complications, and neonatal care. PHCs are promoted as they are nearby, well-equipped to handle normal deliveries, and have no financial constraints. Community awareness is raised through various IEC activities by frontline workers. Antenatal checkups, immunizations, and identification of high-risk mothers are emphasized. PHCs aim to be open 24/7 with trained staff, drugs, and equipment to handle deliveries and referrals.
Shared decision making: Changing the relationship between doctor and patientMarkus Oei
This document discusses shared decision making between doctors and patients. It defines shared decision making as a process where doctors and patients make medical decisions together by considering evidence-based treatment options, their risks and benefits, and the patient's values and preferences. The document notes that while shared decision making improves health outcomes, many patients are not aware they have treatment choices and doctors do not always discuss patient preferences. It argues we need decision support tools, reliable patient information from various sources, and ways to effectively deliver this information to patients to facilitate shared decision making in clinical practice.
This document discusses how telehealth can help control healthcare costs, improve outcomes, avoid readmissions, and modify patient behavior. It provides examples of how telehealth is being used at UMMC and Mississippi to expand access to specialty care, support chronic disease management, improve care coordination, and enhance population health through tools like remote patient monitoring and data analytics. The goal is to improve quality, efficiency and safety through telehealth while empowering patients and preventing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits.
ISS Service Innovation Leadership Seminar, 28 March - Mrs Chew Kwee TiangNUS-ISS
ISS Service Innovation Leadership Seminar, 28 March - "Design Thinking and Service Innovation - The Khoo Teck Puat Hospital's Journey" by Mrs Chew Kwee Tiang, CEO, Khoo Tech Puat Hospital
This document provides an overview of home health care services offered by Dr. Sandeep Dhar. It describes the aim to be the preferred partner for all healthcare needs in the community and provide the best healthcare conveniently at home. A range of services are outlined including health checks, physiotherapy, emergency care, doctor/nursing services, lab/pharmacy/radiology services, and geriatric care all provided at home. The document discusses factors like infrastructure needs, the target population, service processes, and concepts to establish this home healthcare service.
1) Ubiqare Health Pvt Ltd is a 2-year-old healthcare startup that provides follow-up specialty and supportive care to patients at home using clinical telepresence and a network of clinicians.
2) It was founded by 5 professionals with backgrounds in technology and healthcare to make healthcare more accessible and collaborative.
3) Ubiqare's solutions help keep patients close to their families during treatment by providing medical care and checkups at home, reducing travel time and readmissions to the hospital.
Improving Access to Healthcare for Impoverished Communities Rotary International
Interested in global public health? Bridge to Health Medical and Dental has worked in partnership with local grassroots organizations in rural communities in southwestern Uganda and Ethiopia to provide education and training, clinical services, and build innovative solutions to complex problems. Come learn about these initiatives, connect with Rotarians who build sustainable collaborations to improve health and education, and be inspired to take action.
Family Care Medical Services is Australia's largest medical deputising service, covering parts of Queensland and New South Wales. It was established over 37 years ago to provide after hours primary medical care during evenings, weekends, and public holidays. The service is ideal for working families, those with young children or elderly family members, and people with chronic illnesses. It operates integrated home visit and clinic-based models, with doctors on call from 6pm to 8am weekdays and 24/7 on weekends and public holidays. The service aims to provide access and equity of care through bulk billing for many patient groups.
This document summarizes the benefits of highly organized primary care and medical homes. It discusses how organizing primary care into teams that focus on population health, care coordination, planned care for chronic conditions, and quality improvement can improve health outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance the patient experience. The document provides examples from Cambridge Health Alliance that show improved quality metrics, decreased hospital and emergency room use, and reduced costs after implementing a primary care reform model centered around medical homes and accountable care.
iWantGreatCare's 7th National Symposium - Building fantastic staff morale, improving quality and reducing costs - took place on Tuesday 21st June at The King's Fund, London.
NHS leaders share their experiences of how they are building excellence in their Trust, reducing costs and growing staff morale by listening to the voice of the patient.
View the slides from these well-regarded delegates:
Alwen Williams, Chief Exective, Barts Health NHS Trust
David Behan, Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission
Dr Nadeem Moghal, Medical Director, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Liz Mouland, Chief Nurse, First Community Health and Care
Jeremy Howick, clinical epidemiologist and philosopher
This document discusses telehealth and its use as a tool for healthcare in the 21st century. It defines telehealth and telemedicine, and describes how the University of Virginia uses telehealth for clinical care, teaching, research, and public service in over 30 specialties. Telehealth benefits patients through improved access to care, health systems through workforce support, and rural communities through enhanced healthcare. The document outlines federal and state support for telehealth and examples of clinical telehealth programs, including high risk obstetrics, tele-ophthalmology, pediatric cardiology, stroke care, cancer, tele-pathology, and chronic disease management. Challenges to telehealth include funding, reimbursement, licensure and others.
This document discusses the hospitalist model and debunks myths about it. It summarizes research showing that hospitalists can reduce length of stay and costs without harming quality of care. While primary care physicians initially had concerns about loss of continuity and poor communication, studies show patient, family, and physician satisfaction are preserved or improved with hospitalists. For hospitals, hospitalists can increase efficiency and market share. The model has grown significantly since being introduced.
The Future of the American Healthcare Delivery System in an Era of ChangePYA, P.C.
PYA Principal Dr. Kent Bottles, who is also PYA Analytics' Chief Medical Officer, gave the keynote address, "The Future of the American Healthcare Delivery System in an Era of Change at the Healthcare Business Intelligence Summit," September 19, 2013, in Minneapolis. Dr. Bottles discussed four key trends affecting the American healthcare delivery system: the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), the digital revolution, big data, and social media. He examined how these trends together affect the way hospitals, providers, payers, employers, and government agencies adapt to the changing healthcare environment.
This document discusses ambulatory care nursing. It defines ambulatory care nursing as nursing care for patients who receive treatment on an outpatient basis and do not require overnight hospital admission. The setting can include clinics, patient homes, and other outpatient facilities. Ambulatory care nurses focus on pain management, health education, medical screenings, triage, and case management to help patients live independently. Conceptual models for ambulatory care nursing practice include the clinical model, levels of prevention model, and primary health care/managed care models. The roles of nurses in ambulatory settings include enhancing safety, coordination of care, leadership, and providing services through telehealth, physicians' offices, urgent care centers, and other settings. Trends in
This document discusses telehealth models in 21st century healthcare. It provides an overview of telehealth definitions and benefits, including improving access to care for aging and chronic disease populations. The University of Virginia Center for Telehealth is presented as a case study, serving over 41,000 patients across Virginia through telestroke, telepsychiatry, tele-ophthalmology and remote patient monitoring programs. The document concludes with discussing needed policy changes to improve Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and licensing requirements to further support telehealth expansion.
The document summarizes the work of Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS), a non-profit organization that provides integrated health, education, and housing services to help vulnerable Calgarians overcome poverty. It describes CUPS' proposed CUPS Coordinated Care Team, which would provide intensive case management and transitional support to vulnerable patients presenting at Emergency Departments, with the goal of improving health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and decreasing homelessness and substance abuse rates. The team would be funded by the Green Shield Canada Foundation through a two-year pilot project at the Foothills Medical Centre.
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42. HOME: THE NEXT FRONTIER OF HEALTHCARE
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Raising Series A
March 2019
Editor's Notes
Hi I’m Silvia Pfeiffer and I get to talk to you today about a subject that is very dear to my heart: healthcare systems.
My company Coviu sells telemedicine software to enable part of the future of healthcare.
I’d like to take you through a thought experiment today: what if we could build a healthcare system from scratch in today’s technology context, taking into account all our past experiences.
What would we do differently.
Let’s start with the goal of every country’s healthcare system:
The goal of every healthcare system is to provide equitable access to healthcare for all its citizens.
Yet, all healthcare systems fail patients all over the world every single day.
How can we do better?
Let’s learn from the past first.
The development of basically every healthcare system in the world goes through different phases.
As we watch countries evolve from a non-existing healthcare systems to a highly sophisticated system, they follow such a graph or similar.
The blue line is the death rate, the red aggregate health spending of the country.
As health spending increases, the death rate reduces and people live longer, changing the challenges of the healthcare system.
This graph is for the US, but it is representative.
Countries eventually hit the chronic illnesses problem that causes a huge drag on the healthcare system.
So how did we get here? How did our healthcare systems evolve?
At the beginning without a healthcare system, it is the family unit that takes care of the health of its own.
Typically it falls to the mothers to look after the health of family members.
This was the case back in the middle ages…as much as in modern developing countries.
Mothers do what they can to heal family members with herbs, help each other heal children and give birth safely.
But there is no scientific knowledge – the knowledge is shared through the generations only.
Surgeons are the first to evolve, mostly driven by country leaders.
They become a profession and share scientific knowledge at universities.
This was the case in the middle ages for Europe as much as it happens today.
Clinicians also start providing services back to the larger population.
Doctors go to the patients at this stage to extend the reach of the universities.
In the next step, hospitals are created to be able to scale up the efficiency of the clinicians.
This was the case back in the middle ages as it is today.
For efficiency, no patients come to the doctors.
The creation of rural hospitals is just the first step in diversifying the healthcare system.
As more illnesses are treated, more specialisations are created: GPs evolve as the local health support and they triage people to the specialists or hospitals.
To fund this, diverse institutions concern themselves with paying for patients’ health.
This is the golden standard of today’s healthcare.
So, what are the patterns that we see in the history of healthcare system development?
Well, for one, healthcare systems are built for the sick. We jump to action when it’s too late, particularly with chronic illness.
On the way from having mothers look after the health of family members in a holistic fashion to diversified specialized health services, we have lost the holistic view of the health of the individual. We built healthcare for episodes of sickness.
It is now clear that we have to care for the health of the healthy BEFORE they get sick.
Particularly because this has led to a situation of ballooning health care costs that is not sustainable, mostly because of one issue: chronic illnesses.
I believe there is one issue that is at the core of all this that, if we can break it, it will change everything.
I believe we have created patients that don’t feel responsible for their health.
We have built an expectation that the health of our bodies is up to the doctors to fix.
We have taken responsibility away from the individual and put it in the hands of the doctors because they know better.
But do they?
We are not only spending money unnecessarily, but we are also creating avoidable harm.
Modern healthcare systems are so inhumane that even the doctors are affected.
What if we could start over in today’s time – could we build a system that is scalable and provides equitable access to everyone?
Our goal is to build a healthcare system that provides better coverage at a lower price.
Since we know that the biggest cost to a mature healthcare system is chronic illness, how can we prepare for this challenge from the start?
I believe that the solution is in two guiding principles: responsibility and technology.
It is technology that allows us to put the responsibility for their health back in the hands of the individual.
That is the only way to scale healthcare affordably.
This goes to the core of the topic of our conference: women and technology, since women maintain to be responsible for the health of the family.
Technology makes all the difference in empowering the individual to be more responsible for their health.
We have near-universal connectivity and affordable devices that give us access to the free knowledge shared on the Internet.
We have machine learning to increase the scale of diagnostics.
We have drones to get pharmaceuticals and devices fast to the locations that they are needed at.
And we have video technology to bridge the access gap to expertise.
As we develop our new hypothetical healthcare system, we again start at the family entity.
Now our caring mothers have a powerful helper: “Doctor Google”.
I visited the Masai in Africa in January this year and to my amazement, everyone had a smart phone.
There is now access to knowledge that allows families to ask questions about their health and take responsibility.
Of course this is not sufficient and many issues will be beyond the understanding of an untrained individual.
We still need medical education, we still need experts.
But now we can make the experts the source of patient empowerment.
We can use technology to improve patient education and elevate individual community members with medical training.
Experts can be present across larger areas without having to be physically present.
Finally, if we need surgery, we can get it at day clinics without having to spend our recovery time in the unhappy, unhealthy environment of a hospital.
Patients only spend a minimal time in clinics and recover at home.
Let’s look at the example of a child with appendicitis in a rural area:
Mother Googles the pain
Mother gets help via video on the phone to diagnose
Family receives medication via drones
A couple of days later, they attend day surgery
There are no hospital-acquired infections (10% of people get infected in hospitals)
The patient returns with an app to control their medication and diet
The family is able to video call a nurse or doctor as required
Reduced anxiety of patient and family
Better care, better food, better sleep, better recovery
A system that has the individual and their family responsible for their healthcare can result in more patient-driven, more scalable and affordable diversified services.
Underpinning all this is the goal for patients to own their health.
Many digital systems need to come together to make this possible – allow the patient to keep track of their health, receive and manage all their records, and take some of the stress away from the experts that are increasingly feeling the mental pressure of the responsibility that lies on their shoulders.
A diversified service can evolve where the first point of call is not when you are sick (as it is with GPs), but is a health coach that helps you stay healthy.
Physicians are a rare commodity on our planet – most countries have only about 4 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants.
And that physician density is not uniform across the country.
For example, in Australia, physician density depends on population density.
Many rural and remote areas don’t have access to specialists at all.
In this picture, endocrinologists are the little black exclamation mark.
See how there’s a single one in the centre of Australia while all the others are at the edges?
None to the North and South of it and the closest colleague is about 2,000 km away.
There’s not really a choice – in today’s world we can only achieve scalable and affordable healthcarethrough technology and through patient education.
We need to build the healthcare systems of the future for the healthy.
Then we may finally achieve universal equitable access.
Thank you very much – are there any questions?
Feel free to contact me via email if you’d like to discuss further.