Dr. Achintya Moulick speaks about his CarePoint Health System network of hospitals like he’s the coach of an underdog sports team. While there are occasional acknowledgements of the circumstances and events that place his hospitals on a lower tier than their competitors, his narrative is a sweeping one filled with adrenaline-powered tangents that paints an image of a medical system that will slowly but surely not only gain strength, but rise to the top.
New programs like Hospital-at-Home and Acute-Care-at-Home are giving health systems an opportunity to reduce inpatient traffic and give patients the care they need in their own homes.
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Recent CMS and CDC rulings offer hope that health systems will show more love for innovative treatments like digital therapeutics and virtual platforms.
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The Rhode Island School of Design's Center for Complexity has developed a new tool that helps non-English patients accurately describe their pain for emergency care providers.
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