Factoring in Bio-Psycho-Social Factors to Improve Patient Care Outcomes: A Conversation with Gretchen Alkema (November 4th)
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Listen now (21 mins) | Listen Now While it appears obvious a person's health status is directly related to their life circumstances the health care industry has been slow to recognize an individual's bio-psycho-social factors or characteristics in planning and delivering an individual's care. This critcism is typically phrased as clinicians being over attentive to the "patient" and under attentive to the "person". For various reasons having in part to do with utilization/cost, reimbursement and population health concerns this is changing. That is the health care industry is developing a greater appreciation and more sophisticated understanding of the non medical predictors of health care risk.
Factoring in Bio-Psycho-Social Factors to Improve Patient Care Outcomes: A Conversation with Gretchen Alkema (November 4th)
Factoring in Bio-Psycho-Social Factors to…
Factoring in Bio-Psycho-Social Factors to Improve Patient Care Outcomes: A Conversation with Gretchen Alkema (November 4th)
Listen now (21 mins) | Listen Now While it appears obvious a person's health status is directly related to their life circumstances the health care industry has been slow to recognize an individual's bio-psycho-social factors or characteristics in planning and delivering an individual's care. This critcism is typically phrased as clinicians being over attentive to the "patient" and under attentive to the "person". For various reasons having in part to do with utilization/cost, reimbursement and population health concerns this is changing. That is the health care industry is developing a greater appreciation and more sophisticated understanding of the non medical predictors of health care risk.