FEATURED PRESENTER
Shelley Davis (Biography), MSN, RNC, CCM, Vice President of Clinical Strategy at Lightbeam Health Solutions
For patients with similar disease burden, which is the key driver of health status, up to 60 – 80% of the variability in outcomes is driven by non-clinical factors and social determinants of health.
Join Shelley Davis, Vice President of Clinical Strategy at Lightbeam Health Solutions to review and discuss the value of Health Equity as a strategically and tactically important aspect of advanced care delivery models. In this highly focused session, attendees will:
- Gain insight into existing reimbursement models’ inclusion of Health Equity criteria (and their anticipated evolution)
- Learn how to understand and advance their own journey toward holistic patient care
- Discover implementation strategies to mitigate risk and avoid burnout
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SHELLEY DAVIS, MSN, RNC, CCM
Vice President of Clinical Strategy at Lightbeam Health Solutions
Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM serves as Vice President of Clinical Strategy at Lightbeam Health Solutions, where she provides clinical expertise and guidance to the Sales teams and Marketplace operations. Shelley is instrumental in developing strategies for new prospects, expanding additional offerings to current clients, and operationalizing Lightbeam’s Marketplace. She has over 27 years of experience in diverse healthcare settings, including clinical advisory, care management, pediatric critical care, flight transport, and trauma.
Managing Patients with Comorbidities
AristaMD’s Pamela Gould, RN, MHA, discusses eConsult best practices for managing the care of patients with comorbidities, particularly those struggling with multiple comorbid conditions. This discussion will focus on a patient case and demonstrate how eConsults can be used to improve equity in access to care and eliminate wait times.
Learn how an eConsult can:
• Eliminate long wait times for face-to-face specialist appointments
• Consolidate information sharing and improve care coordination
• Prevent costly escalation of care by helping patients receive care faster and avoid a visit to the ED.
Transcript:
As many of you know, there are many challenges related to specialty care access, regardless of where you’re practicing — health system, correctional facility, tribal location, or provider practice. The need for specialty care access in most regions has almost doubled since the pandemic. As a result, patient wait times are increasing. We can often see additional challenges for patients covered by Medicare or Medicare advantage. These patients may have travel concerns or few physicians in the region accept Medicaid patients. We also see patients that have difficulty taking time out of work or accessing childcare. There’s a number of reasons why specialty care access is difficult.
All of these challenges lead to healthcare disparity, which we are addressing through electronic physician-to-specialist consultations. When we look at patients with comorbidities or that have complex medical conditions, delays in care will often equate to poor health outcomes. This is where eConsults make an impact. Today we will review what is an eConsult, what to expect from an eConsult program and why patients need coordinated care across multiple specialties. The main portion of the presentation will focus on:
- How to use an eConsult to treat patients with comorbidities.
- What happens when the patients are waiting for care?