George Dickstein, MD. Gastroenterologist at Greater Boston Gastroenterology: By most estimates it will be years, and the human and financial cost in missed opportunities to find colon cancer early or prevent it by adenoma removal is difficult to fathom. Groups traditionally challenged by healthcare disparities will be even more disadvantaged in this regard. This challenge is further compounded by the lack of anesthesiologists, CRNAs and endoscopists we are facing in many markets. Nationally, moratoria on elective procedures led to a steep dropoff in screenings for cancers, including colorectal cancer. In late summer of 2020, it was estimated that CRC screenings…
Author: Praveen Suthrum
Medscape conducted a survey this year of more than 2500 US physicians on whats motivating doctors to think about leaving their practice and considering other non- clinical career options
SonarMD continues to gain momentum in 2021 as the leading valuebased care coordination solution for complex chronic diseases, highlighted by record-setting patientengagement rates in its newest market and updated chief executive leadership.Today the company announces the successful launch of a value-based agreement with a major insurer inMinnesota and Minneapolis-based MNGI Digestive Health. In the first three weeks of the collaboration,SonarMD engaged 75% of eligible MNGI patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn’s andulcerative colitis) in its longitudinal remote monitoring program, which is proven to reduce the need forER visits and hospitalizations, lowering costs by 15% per patient per year.
Institutional private investment in health care, particularly in physician practices and staffing companies, has increased markedly in recent years, raising concerns that an influx of profit-driven entities into the sector might raise the cost or reduce the quality of patient care. Exemplifying these concerns, private equity-backed physician staffing companies and air ambulance operators helped drive the problem of out-of-network surprise medical billing, leading to increases in both in-network and out-of-network payments and exposing consumers to unexpected financial burdens.[1],[2],[3] Private equity investor groups subsequently poured millions of dollars into lobbying to block passage of a federal surprise medical billing law until…
Question: What are the biggest threats and trends in gastroenterology? Dr. George Dickstein: Many of the threats to gastroenterology are not new: A push toward finding clinically relevant and financially secure ways to participate in bundled payments or pay-for-performance models of care, while taking care not to sacrifice quality for efficiency.The annual and sometimes erratic pressures of rate reduction from CMS and commercial plans [with some draconian and sudden reductions by some large regional commercial plans being a more important driver of risk this year than usual].A continued lack of integration of many electronic health systems, which still leads to…
GI Alliance, the nation’s largest independent gastroenterology services organization, announced expansion into Florida through a partnership with Gastroenterology Associates of Florida. GI Alliance now represents 1,200 providers, including more than 600 gastroenterologists across 11 states. Gastroenterology Associates of Florida has been providing comprehensive patient care in gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy in Palm Beach County for over 30 years. With a team of 8 GI-trained physicians and three advanced practice providers, Gastroenterology Associates of Florida has grown to become a significant provider of high-quality, lower-cost, independent GI care in the state. Gastroenterology Associates of Florida has three locations serving Wellington, Boynton…
Chris McCann, co-founder and CEO of Current Health, sat down with Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, to discuss the biggest opportunities he sees for remote care to impact healthcare delivery and drug discovery models, during COVID-19 and beyond. Chris McCann: The pandemic has exploded utilization and deployment of remote patient monitoring, digital health and virtual care. What do you think will happen after the direct impact of COVID-19 has dissipated? Will the use of remote monitoring continue? Eric Topol: When I was working on my book The Creative Destruction of Medicine, I had predicted that telemedicine…
In this episode, Adam Marcus talks with Freddy Caldera, DO, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines and what questions gastroenterologists might field from their patients about the injections.
► Oshi Health raises $23M Series A funding from:► Flare Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures co-led the round with a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures. Individuals include noteworthy health industry veterans, including author and athenahealth cofounder Jonathan Bush, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg of Operator Partners and Flatiron Health, serial healthcare entrepreneur and IBD patient advocate Eric M. Stone, and Russell Glass the CEO of Headspace Health.
If theres a silver lining to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s that we’ve finally opened the door to new care paradigms — and opened minds to new possibilities. While we’d never wish for a pandemic to galvanize change, what’s happening now in healthcare is exciting. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg of what the future holds. Our healthcare delivery system is transforming before our eyes, from hospital care to doctor’s office visits to urgent care clinics and specialist consults. The sharp lines between our services blur as we merge, layer and integrate these disciplines into a new whole.