Tele-rehab, at least the way that RespondWell does it, includes biometric devices to get ahead on what the patient is up to, for better for worse, even if the patient and the physical therapist are not directly interacting. This matters because bad things happen when a patient doesn’t do their follow up PT and many patients can’t afford the follow up care or are rural and don’t have easy or even moderately easy access to it.

David is an accomplished strategist, providing innovative customer marketing, access, quality, and health intervention solutions for large clients and has directed the development of numerous industry-leading campaigns in primary care and specialty markets.

NextHealth Technologies solves business problems using a pretty fancy predictive analytics technology platform. Customers, health plans or risk-bering providers, are able to run what amounts to Randomized Clinical Trials. Patient presents with some sort of health risk, an intervention is performed, variables controlled for, and impact assessed. Then the impact of sundry interventions can be compared to one another in pursuit of those that work the best. Eric Grossman from NextHealth Technologies discusses getting patient outcomes faster.

There are a number of drivers that cause patient outcomes. According to RWJF/UWPHI clinical care contributes 20% to the patient outcome equation. 30% of that equation is driven by patient behaviors at home. (Thanks to Dave Chase of Cascadia Capital for providing “The Future of Healthcare Today” & these stats.) It’s inarguable that every patient makes a hundred decisions a day which will, for better for worse, affect our health. Today I speak with Matt Darling from Ideas42 on the science and economics behind our behavioral choices.

Patients want access to their PCP. Now. And they want access where they are, not across town after a 4 hour wait. Meanwhile, PCPs are in short supply, plus there’s all kinds of evidence about the importance of follow up care after a hospitalization or certain diagnoses. But once a patient leaves the office, it’s often out of sight out of mind on both sides of the equation. The opportunity for connectivity here is clear, and clearly uses technology. Today I speak with Soheil Saadat.