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 Today in Health it, the story is The New Frontier for Healthcare or The Old Frontier Revisited. My name is Bill Russell. I'm a former CIO for a 16 hospital system and creator of this week in Health IT at channel dedicated to keeping health IT staff current. And engaged today's sponsors VMware. VMware was one of the first sponsors of this week in Health it, and now they are one of the first sponsors of Today in Health it.

They have been committed to our mission of providing relevant content to health IT professionals since the start. They recently completed an executive study with MIT on the top, healthcare Trends, shaping it, resilience, covering how the pandemic drove unique transformation in healthcare. This is just one of the many resources they have for healthcare professionals.

For this and several other great content pieces, check out vmware.com/go/healthcare. Alright, let's get to today's story. Today's story is actually two stories, and I apologize for that. I know I tell you it's one story. It's one theme. Two stories and the theme is, what is your home care strategy? Alright, first story.

A live core has updated their capabilities of its mobile ECG devices to identify three additional types of heart conditions. The company announced today, and I, I'm gonna try to pronounce these things. I'm not a physician, so cut me a little slack here. Sinus rhythm with supra ventricular ectopy, SVE, sinus rhythm with premature ventricular contractions.

Contractions, PVCs and sinus rhythm with wide QRS are now all on the table of live course cardio mobile line of ECG devices, which already detected AFib. Bradycardia, slow heart rate and tachycardia, high heart rate. The new determinations are a result of an update to a live course cardia AI software that was cleared by the FDA in November.

Alright, so devices are advancing. That's the first story. Second one is about models. And this is about a partnership. Alright, so could the new advanced care program created by Humana and Dispatch Health prove to be groundbreaking innovation in the care of patients with certain types of chronic conditions.

Okay, so here's a description of what these things are. These services will be available in Denver, Tacoma, Washington, with expansion to additional markets in Texas, Arizona, and Nevada. Plan for later this year, the agreement will provide members living with multiple chronic conditions such as cellulitis.

Kidney and urinary tract infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, and many others. An opportunity to be treated safely at home and thereby avoid hospital visits. Last November, the US Center's, uh, CMS and Medicaid Services announced a waiver program to allow qualified healthcare providers.

To offer acute hospital level care in the home. The dispatch Humana agreement is believed to be the country's first program to provide hospital level care involving a national payer. Alright, so we have, devices are advancing, we have models are advancing. So with each of these stories, we ask the questions.

So what, why does this matter? What is this about? So we talked about devices, we talked about, uh, a new partnership and a model. For delivering home care, the so what is home health is still the forgotten stepchild of many health systems. It's time to rethink that and to start to spend some serious time and invest some money coming up with strategies to leverage digital technologies.

And the changing payment models and creative partnerships to start scaling up these capabilities, the capabilities of delivering, uh, acute level services, acute level care in the home. If I were in it, this is just you and I talking, if I were in it today, I would start a file. I would start taking all these stories that you're reading and putting them in a file and, and just around anything that having to do with advances in devices and advances in home and home care delivery.

And the reason for that is if, if you do this, you're gonna be way ahead of the game. At some point, someone is gonna knock on your door and say, Hey. We have this idea of doing this kind of level of care in the home. What technologies are out there? And you're gonna have this, this whole litany of stories that you're gonna be able to say, this health system's doing this, this device manufacturer's doing this, this startup is doing this, and you're gonna be ahead of the game.

And, uh, that's what is really expected of us. So get ahead of this, start reading these stories, start collecting these stories. Uh, the home is the new frontier for acute care services and in some ways it's going back to the old frontier, uh, uh, the Dr. Marcus Welby days, but now we're even going beyond that.

We're talking about acute level services in the home. This is an exciting time in healthcare. I. That's all for today. If you know of someone that might benefit from our channel, please forward them a note. They subscribe on our website this week, health.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. Apple, Google Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, you get the picture.

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