Medicare: Examining Care Coordination and Evolving Payment Structures
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Care at Home: Meeting Patients Where They Are
Care at home strategies seek to establish a win-win situation in which patient satisfaction goes up while use of health…
Leading Transformative Change in Medicine: Highlights from the 2015 Lown Conference
“There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change…” reads first line from the…
Three Ways to Improve Digital Health for the Underserved
A new report from Oakland-based non-profit ZeroDivide reveals three ways in which low income women of color use digital technology…
Reversing the Epidemic of Inactivity
In the final installment of her seven-part series on Exercise as a Vital Sign (EVS), Kaiser Permanente physician Latifat Apatira…
Six Burning Questions Health Care Leaders Have about ACOs
If you ask health care leaders what they think about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), you won’t be short on answers,…
How Innovation brought Exercise as a Vital Sign to Life
Two years ago, a team from Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Consultancy was given the task of transforming patient data on exercise…
Using New Technology and Innovation to Improve Care
Roving about the hospital on wheels, the InTouch Health® RP-VITA® robot lets doctors see and talk with patients, families, and…
Helping patients ‘Find Their Thing’ is key to Exercise as a Vital Sign
Latifat T. Apatira, MD, MPH, fourth-year internal medicine and preventive medicine resident, believes that in order for Exercise as a…
Informing the Next Generation of Accountable Care Organizations
Some of the biggest buzz in health reform lies in the potential that Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have to help to reduce…