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 […]
The Importance of Building a Virtual Care Platform from the Ground Up October 17, 2023 Despite all the advances in medicine in recent decades, far too many people still have far too much trouble accessing healthcare facilities and specialist care when they need it. Under our current, predominantly top-down healthcare model, patients often face severe […]
Virtual healthcare is transforming and improving the healthcare industry in a variety of ways, but there are gaps that need filling in order to best support providers and patients.