Introducing Hippo Coactive Care™: The Next Innovation in Healthcare Delivery By Patrick Quinlan, MD The current hospital-centric, hub-and-spoke model of care has become obsolete. It’s time to adopt a patient-centered approach that delivers care directly to patients, their families, and caregivers at home. This shift is essential for improving outcomes, reducing costs, and addressing the […]
How Hippo Virtual Care™ Can Help Reverse the Physician Exodus The shortage of physicians that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down. By the end of 2024, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, US healthcare organizations will have a shortage of 64,000 physicians, with that number projected […]
Hippo Perspective on Becker’s 17 Quick Notes on Healthcare By Dr. Patrick Quinlan Recently, Becker’s released a state of affairs on the 2024 US healthcare system highlighting key financial, technological, and human-centered resources plaguing and abetting the current and future state of care delivery. At Hippo, we understand that in a consumer-driven society, the needs […]
Healthcare should stop asking “Who Moved My Patients?” By Tom Fee Twenty-five years ago, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson PhD released “Who Moved My Cheese?”, transforming the way we think about strategic change. The time has come for healthcare leaders to stop asking “Who Moved My Patients?” and start building new care delivery models for […]
How Hippo Virtual Care™ “Has Revolutionized” Critical Patient Care in Louisiana After The Carpenter Health Network deployed the Hippo Virtual Care™ platform, the network’s chief medical officer, James Ratliff, MD, called the platform “an absolute differentiator” that brings “an acute solution to an acute problem.” The Carpenter Health Network provides post-acute care services including home […]
How Hippo Virtual Care™ is Transforming Post-Acute Care A new partnership with Carpenter Health Network is bringing immediate benefits to providers and patients. The Carpenter Health Network provides post-acute care services including home health, palliative, hospice, and rehabilitative services throughout Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Arkansas. The network also owns and manages Homedica HouseCalls, […]
The Future of Medicine – Pill or Person? Far in the medical future, we imagine amazing tricorder technology and remedies in Star Trek. When you project our medical technologies (e.g., gene therapy, digital therapeutics, telehealth and AI) into the future the most interesting anomaly in this picture is the doctor. 250 years in the future, […]
Why Telehealth Is Failing During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of patients were introduced to telehealth, as it was often their only option if they wanted to see a healthcare provider. According to a report by Trillian Health, telehealth volume peaked with 76.6 million visits — or more than a quarter of […]
How Hippo Virtual Care™ Is Helping to Pioneer Virtual Wound Care in Australia A new trial highlights the power of virtual care to remove barriers to remote aged populations Southern Cross Care (SCC) is a not-for-profit aged care provider that has supported thousands of older Australians for more than 50 years. In an attempt to […]
How Remote Collaboration Benefits Home Healthcare Patients Novemebr 16, 2023 The home healthcare industry in the United States is reaching a breaking point. Over the last three decades, home healthcare has grown from 50 percent of all healthcare to 70 percent of all healthcare. This growth has been driven by the number of baby boomers […]