Fierce Healthcare September 29, 2022
Danielle Russella

In healthcare, we’re fond of talking about person-centered care. But in practice, many older adults don’t receive it—which impacts not only them, but also their loved ones and caregivers, and drives surging medical costs and low patient satisfaction.

Fragmented outpatient care is linked with increased morbidity, duplicate medications and drug interactions, redundant imaging tests, more frequent hospital admissions and increased hazards in hospitals and ERs. Meanwhile, uncoordinated care creates up to $78.2 billion in waste in the U.S. each year.

I’ve witnessed this crisis with my aging parents, who travel to multiple specialists a week, make too many visits a year to their local ER and take dozens of daily medications. My parents are covered by one...

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