By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
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On this episode I talked to Avantika Waring, MD, Chief Medical Officer at 9amHealth who focuses on hands-on, everyday help with diabetes, weight loss, and heart health.
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Avantika shares her career journey into health tech and the virtual diabetes care program at 9 am Health. She explained how they provide comprehensive wraparound care including physicians, nutritionists, health coaches, and more to diabetes patients across all 50 states.
We discuss the emphasis on flexibility to reduce barriers and increase access to care that includes providing audio-only phone appointments for seniors without internet access. We talk about ways the group has found to mitigate the inequities including efforts to diversify the care team and tailor care plans to individual lifestyles and cultures rather than mandating one strict regimen.
Listen in to hear us discuss the new anti-obesity medications, which have an important role for some patients but should not be viewed as a cure-all. As Avantika puts it “I don’t want the goal of these drugs to be that we’re trying to eliminate, you know, eliminate fatness from society.”
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
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For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
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