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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #60 – Behavioral Economics in the ‘Last Mile of Healthcare’ with Karen Horgan
Description: Dear Friends & Colleagues,
The phrase, “Last Mile of Healthcare,” is used to describe a number of situations in healthcare. First, it’s been used to describe the value-laden interface between a provider and a patient. Second, it describes patients in the context of their life – as individuals making healthful as well as unhealthful decisions. It is in these so-called ‘last mile of healthcare’ moments that the issue of behavior is paramount – provider behavior and patient behavior. The metaphor has significant ramifications in population health as well as in public health. For example, chronic disease management, which now accounts for the ma...