News You Can Use – Laundromat Healthcare
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
This months episode of “News you can Use” on Healthcare NOW Radio features news from the month of February 2022.
As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners.
This month with COVID19 fading and many restrictions lifting we focus on the latest innovations and concepts in healthcare that are bringing real solutions to the healthcare world. We discuss Fabric Health that is bringing healthcare to meet people where they are – in this case the Laundromat. As they point out – 32 million Americans show up every week to the laundromat and they are standing up health services to meet these people. I covered a similar concept of Live Chair set up by Andrew Suggs in the early part of the pandemic (Medicine Back to the Barber Shop) that offers healthcare centered on the community barber shop.
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There are additional steps to adding services but some of that may be arriving with technology, but in the meantime just reaching people and providing high quality reliable and accurate healthcare in their community will bring about real change. This is especially important as we face the wave of people who have delayed care or screening or wellness visits. The expectation is this wave of people will sweep over the health system adding to an already strained system with additional requirements or diseases that have been untreated or undetected for months. In medicine – the earlier we identify a problem the better the chances of successful outcomes.
Listen in to hear our discussion on vaccine development and the long history of science and innovation that has brought us to this point with faster access to treatments that can be customized and where you “Digital Twins” fits in.
You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out direct via the contact form on my website, send me a message on LinkedIn or on my Facebook page (DrNickvT), or on Twitter tagging me (@DrNic1) and #TheIncrementalist or you can click this link to generate a ready-made tweet to fill in.
About the Show
For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
