Scott Conard

Oct 1, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Scott Conard |Sara Pastoor |Christopher Habig |Andy Bonner

The latest term hitting the health care benefit, insurance company, and point solution ecosystem is “whole person care.” This term is beginning to be used as a marketing buzzword and is losing its meaning. What is the definition of whole person care? The DHHS/NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health defines it as “looking at the whole person—not just separate organs or body systems—and considering multiple factors that promote either health or disease.

Mar 12, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sara Pastoor |Scott Conard |Christopher Habig |Betty Rabinowitz

In the quaint New England town of Scituate, Rhode Island, with a population of 10,000, a health care revolution was brewing. Dr. Michael Fine, a passionate family physician, had moved to Scituate with his family in 1992 to serve a quiet, rural community with significant health care challenges. By 1999, though, Scituate’s residents had become very worried about the cost of health care.