An entirely new model of primary care.
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Dartmouth To Offer New Primary Care Medical Practice
Keeping people healthy is better for them—and less expensive—than caring for them when they are acutely ill. That’s the goal of Dartmouth Health Connect, a new primary care practice opening in February 2012, in conjunction with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and Iora Health, a Cambridge, Mass., health-care company started by a physician who is turning the conventional method of delivering health care upside down. “What everyone else has been doing is tweaking the existing model.
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The Hot Spotter
If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the Rutgers University campus. The victim lay motionless in the street beside the open door on the driver’s side, as if the car had ejected him. A neighborhood couple, a physical therapist and a volunteer firefighter, approached to see if they could help, but police waved them back.
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Enlist The Patients’ Help: Supporting people to self manage chronic disease could help reduce its global burden
Next week the United Nations will unveil its blueprint to tackle
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the global epidemic of chronic non-communicable disease. Its
summit meeting will focus attention on rapidly rising rates of
disease, which threaten economic and social development in
poor countries and are putting unsustainable burdens on all
countries’ health systems (BMJ 2011;343:d5762, doi:10.1136/
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Dartmouth Tests New Model For Primary Care in Hanover
Tucked away in a downtown Hanover storefront that previously was home to a children’s clothing store and Omer & Bob’s bike shop, Dartmouth Health Connect seems worlds away from the sprawling campus of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Though Dartmouth is paying more through the college-sponsored health plan to send its employees to Dartmouth Health Connect, the hope is that overall health care spending will decline because people will be spending less time at the hospital.
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