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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP251: Preventing Readmissions and Improving Patient Outcomes With Telehealth and Other Digital Tools, With Dr. Kimberly Noel From Stony Brook Medicine
Description: There are four pillars that contribute to readmissions: ensuring patients are equipped to self-manage and properly take their medications; follow-up (usually by PCPs); managing transitions of care and care coordination, which might be known as interoperability; plus avoiding medical errors. Dr. Kim Noel and I discuss each of these pillars and how telehealth and other digital tools can close gaps and help patients do what they need to do to stay out of the hospital. Dr. Noel is a clinical researcher, physician, and telehealth specialist. She is an appointee to the New York State Department of Health...