Episode #33
Virtual Transitionist Model Reduces Complications after Acute Care Events with Dr. David Feldman Dimer Health TRANSCRIPT
Dr. David Feldman is the Chief Medical Officer at Dimer Health, a virtual care medical practice designed to improve patient outcomes during the critical 1-3 days following hospital discharge, outpatient surgery, or emergency room visits. The company addresses the gap in post-acute care between hospital care and primary care follow-up by proactive monitoring, medication management, and pain control. Inspired by the hospitalist model, Dimer is defining a transitionist model that is tailored to each patient's needs and home environment, intervening early on minor complications to reduce emergency room revisits and hospital readmissions. David explains, "Dimer Health is a health tech company. It's a medical practice deliberately built to better serve patients after any post-acute care event. And what I mean by that is patients go to the emergency room and are discharged, patients are admitted to the hospital and are discharged, maybe they have surgery. And it's in those first 1 to 3 days after that when the trajectory of their recovery is really determined. As an emergency room physician, I see a lot of those complications that come in. A couple of our founders were also emergency room providers, and so we wanted to be deliberate about building a medical practice, a virtual care medical practice that fits right into that window to prevent those patients from coming back to the hospital." "And I think a good example of that is a very realistic scenario: a patient has joint replacement surgery, and it's a couple of days later. Their pain medications are changing. Maybe they're transitioning to different types of pain medications, or they're just starting to utilize their pain medications. They're adjusting to new mobility issues. Maybe they're learning different kinds of injections or blood thinners. They're not sleeping well. Families are trying to help, and there are just changes to their home life that occur because of the procedure that happened. And when you're outside the four walls of the hospital, it's sometimes difficult to understand what's normal post-op healing and what's more concerning than that." #DimerHealth #JointReplacement, #PostAcuteCare, #PatientSafety #HospitalReadmissions, #PostDischargeCare, #SurgicalRecovery dimerhealth.com Listen to the podcast here
