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You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care

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Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca

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PROVIDERS IN ALL PARTS OF the health care system recognize that troublesome social conditions drive much of their work and costs. Major challenges in people’s social circumstances—layoffs, foreclosures, accidents, violence—can create horrific health care needs, many of which become chronic and carry high price tags. These extreme needs are omnipres

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Retaining and rewarding caregivers: Demand for home healthcare workers should grow rapidly over the next ~8 years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2018-28, the number of jobs will increase 36%. Average growth across industries is 5%. That's set to exacerbate existing issues for personal care providers, namely, retention and tu... See more