How simple things can save healthcare
Stephen Klasko
Executive in Residence General Catalyst. Chair, Board of Directors, DocGo.
High tech won't save healthcare delivery. The students I met from Thomas Jefferson University's hotspotting teams will. Over the past year, these students formed interdisciplinary teams - from population health, pharmacy, occupational therapy, medicine, nursing, others - to meet and help individuals with complex illness and high costs.
It worked. The publications are being written up now. But after meeting with the students, I'm impressed. They got it. Small changes can make a huge difference. For example, they found that patiently teaching someone how to use a colostomy bag can save 16-30 emergency room trips ... per month.
Here's why healthcare delivery needs saving: No one pays for that "patient" teaching time. In fact, it costs a hospital revenue when those individuals do NOT show up at the emergency room. We need payment models where the money saved goes back to the institutions - to the institutions that organize hotspotting teams, or community listening time, or time spent patiently teaching.
You'll meet many of the students in this short video. Listen to what they have to say. They are the frontline of saving healthcare delivery.
Their mentors had the same reaction ... these teams helped experienced clinicians rediscover the joy of helping. Can it prevent burnout?
Break time - after 4 decades of over achieving quota's as a Rep, Channel Manager, V/P Sales, and the founder of two tech start-ups, PatienTree, and Technology Fusions I am putting my career on pause.
6 å¹´AI has a long way to go but sooner or later it will be an integral tool to support out of the box thinkers
CEO of Vital Start | Family Mental Health Virtual Clinic with XR
6 å¹´Intriguing insight, not being a clinician it can be hard to see this and not get lost in canonical cost and quality outcomes
CEO, Race Winning Brands
6 å¹´Great post Steve. Keep up the great work. You have the right map to make healthcare work. We all thank you for your efforts.
Commercial Leader - Medical Device, Healthcare Technology, Digital Health
6 å¹´Stephen Klasko, great piece. I appreciate your vision and agree. Small changes add up to make huge impacts.
Current Flatiron Health | Former Pfizer & Novartis | Commercial & Clinical Development Executive | Innovation & Technology | Angel Investor | Pediatric Cancer Advocate | I Don't Cure Cancer but I Know People Who Do
6 å¹´Great stuff. Reminds me though of the adage about their being money to be made in perpetual treatment and not in prevention or cure/eradication.