Building individual health equity

<p>"Building individual health equity starts with a commitment to price transparency.  The current system favors a broader, value-based model that does not require individual fees for services. Resources are allocated based on outcomes and are dependent on complex and expensive data acquisition.  In a direct pay model, the physician is accountable only to the patient.  It requires shared decision-making and informed consent from the patient, not permission from an insurer."</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulamutomd/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer follow" data-wpel-link= "exclude">Paula Muto</a> is a vascular surgeon.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/2022/10/building-individual-health-equity.html">Building individual health equity</a>."</p> <p><a href="https://nuance.com/daxinaction"><img class= "alignnone wp-image-424286 size-medium" src= "https://www.kevinmd.com/wp-content/uploads/NuanceLogo_Horz_k-2-300x62.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="62" /></a></p> <p><em>The Podcast by KevinMD is brought to you by the <a href= "https://nuance.com/daxinaction">Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience</a>.</em></p> <p><em>With a growing physician shortage, increasing burnout, and declining patient satisfaction, a dramatic change is needed to make health care more efficient and effective and bring back the joy of practicing medicine. AI-driven ambient clinical intelligence promises to help by revolutionizing patient and provider experiences with clinical documentation that writes itself.</em></p> <p><em>The <a href="https://nuance.com/daxinaction">Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience</a>, or DAX for short, is a voice-enabled, ambient clinical intelligence solution that automatically captures patient encounters securely and accurately at the point of care. Physicians who use DAX have reported a 50 percent decrease in documentation time and a 70 percent reduction in feelings of burnout, and 83 percent of patients say their physician is more personable