Are hospitals needed for primary care?
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Are hospitals needed for primary care?
In our shared imagination, the concept of health has been shaped by this downstream activity, where doctors and nurses discover and treat disease.
Rishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
This creates a type of hub-and-spoke model, where lower acuity cases can be taken care of in these primary stroke centers and transferred to the mothership for necessary procedures, etc.
Nikhil Krishnan • Out-Of-Pocket: Making healthcare easy to understand.
PROVIDERS IN ALL PARTS OF the health care system recognize that troublesome social conditions drive much of their work and costs. Major challenges in people’s social circumstances—layoffs, foreclosures, accidents, violence—can create horrific health care needs, many of which become chronic and carry high price tags. These extreme needs are omnipres
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This means there is no point in moving to an EHR system without normalized data because without adequate structure, there is no way for computerized patient data to coordinate care better than paper records.