Fierce Healthcare October 27, 2021
Primary care for seniors should be purposeful, team-based and recognize the complexities that drive their health outcomes, according to Humana.
“The hallmark of the challenges that seniors face is that their lives are complex, their health problems are complex, they live in complex environments. And we have a fragmented healthcare system,” Humana’s chief medical officer William Shrank, M.D., said this week during Fierce Healthcare’s latest virtual summit.
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A key way of bridging that gap is by taking a whole-person approach by tracking elements like social determinants in patients, which play a defining role in their lives, Shrank noted.
And unless their provider tracks these contexts, patients cannot focus on their primary chronic or acute...
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