Speakers: Dr. Keith Thompson
How has Best Care impacted your practice?
Dr. Keith Thompson: How is this program impacted my practice? And I can say from my experience as a clinician, it's been incredibly valuable. There is exceptional knowledge translation. As you know, we can't stay on top of guidelines. We're inundated with new releases, new guidelines, new products, new medications, new treatments and how can we possibly stay on top of it all? So what's wonderful about this program being embedded in my office during my clinical workflow there's someone down the hall that I can query. And just today, in fact, asking about the cost of a vaccine or who may be eligible for an immunization, let alone some of the newer treatment guidelines that come out and that really translates best when we have that relationship one on one. It's I know there are virtual programs
Do you have a message for others about the Best Care program?
Dr. Keith Thompson: in terms of cost. Humanly speaking, as I mentioned earlier, this is compassionate care by proxy. We know that one of the problems in the system right now is the efficiency of time I speak about the currency of time, the time that I don't have to spend with my patients to go into detail about what their disease is, how to understand exacerbations, what they should do when they should or shouldn't take antibiotics. For example, when they need to see me, when they can do self care, all of that rolls into understanding their condition. But that currency of time, the time that I don't have, we can decant to the E RT and the health educators in this program. So it really does perform incredibly well. So I'd encourage each of you certainly as clinicians to look at this and hopefully, as health care providers, if you're on the team, making a decision about programs like this and funding for policy, uh Please give this a serious look. Thank you.
