Kate Fisher’s Post

Foodsmart is living proof that 'food is medicine.' Instead of dishing out prescriptions, they connect patients with registered dietitians to create custom meal plans and resources. In BI's latest Trends in Healthcare, Gabby Landsverk offers a detailed look at how doctors are customizing food prescriptions with beans and greens to help patients prevent illness. cc: Merrita Villa + Jason Langheier MD, MPH + Vijay Chattha

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and The Rockefeller Foundation have joined forces to accelerate the adoption of "Food is Medicine" in health systems. Learn more about this groundbreaking partnership and its potential impact on patient care. #FoodisMedicine #HealthcareInnovation

Meet Wesley Daniel, a U.S. Navy veteran and former adventure sport guide, whose personal situation and health took a severe hit, post-pandemic. He shared with a packed house at SXSW 2024 how a nascent Food is Medicine program at the Veterans administration helped him lower his A1C from 9.1 to 6.5 in only 90 days.   Daniel's program includes a $100 monthly grocery stipend for fresh fruits and vegetable purchases, supplemented by regular telehealth visits with a VA dietitian, and hands-on culinary training via the VA's Healthy Teaching Kitchen training program.   Daniel's story anchored a panel discussion that included Christine Going, EdD, MPA, RD, FACHE, senior advisor for the Food Security Office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Roy Steiner, senior vice president for food, The Rockefeller Foundation; and Kevin Volpp, scientific lead for food is medicine at American Heart Association.   The panel pointed out that the VA is a particularly fertile lab as experiments in Food is Medicine proliferate throughout the healthcare world, since it is simultaneously a healthcare provider and an insurer.   Lack of nutritional training in medical school remains a significant barrier to scaling nutritional medicine. Steiner noted that, on average, most primary care physicians receive only four hours of formal dietary training in four years of medical school.   Volpp said more than 20 randomized studies are currently being fielded around the United States to collect evidence around the preventative health benefits of dietary medicine that will help both primary care providers and insurance providers identify and build scale around specific programs. #sxsw2024 #foodismedicine #ift #foodsystemtransformation

In a time when we are flooded with ads for new medications, we should consider a new kind of prescription - food. Food is Medicine programs have been proven to increase health outcomes and reduce overall healthcare spend. More payers need to reimburse for these types of interventions so we can make an even greater impact. Read more about it in my latest Medical Care blog post. #foodismedicine #publichealth #healthequity

Valuable insights on #foodasmedicine shared by industry experts, discussing challenges like defining, measuring outcomes, and sustainability. Grateful for the engaging video cast by Jared S. Taylor, Brian K. Jones MS, RDN, LDN, CCM, POPM, FAND, and Lauren Barca. In healthcare, the link between medication, food, and exercise is vital. Check out the enlightening discussion here: https://lnkd.in/eQe4uVzm #healthcare #wellness

🏥🔍 Read Joe McCaffrey's story about navigating healthcare while working through a new medical diagnosis – and how it lead him to a career in healthcare interoperability and FHIR. Learn about his journey in our new blog: https://bit.ly/3vyFOOr #healthcare #interoperability #healthdata #fhir

Our work at Lifelong just got a powerful spotlight on PBS’s America’s Heartland, and I’m thrilled to share how we’re reimagining community health. Most people think of medication when they see a prescription. At LifeLong, we’re writing a different kind of prescription—one filled with fresh, locally grown produce that heals from the inside out. Thanks to our partnership with Urban Tilth, a Richmond-based farm just two miles from our William Jenkins Health Center Wellness Clinic, we distribute beautiful, nutritious fruits and vegetables to our patients as part of “food prescriptions.” Dr Daphne Miller, our phenomenal Faculty Leader in Family Medicine and a series regular on the PBS show, captured it perfectly: “The doctors get to hand them out as food prescriptions, much as you would hand out a prescription for cholesterol or blood pressure medication.” These prescriptions have the same critical goal—protecting our patients from diet-related diseases like heart disease and diabetes. In addition, our wellness groups help patients integrate healthy eating into their lives with activities like blood pressure checks, medication reviews, and cooking together using produce from their bags. Dr. Miller also shared a practical tip for preparing hardy greens like kale and collards: massaging the leaves makes them tender and nutrient-rich, while adding citrus or vinegar during cooking enhances both flavor and nutritional benefits. LifeLong’s partnership with Urban Tilth demonstrates how local, community-driven solutions can promote health equity and combat chronic diseases. Together, we’re not just treating illness—we’re nurturing health from the ground up. 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗕𝗦 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: https://ow.ly/9RsM50UbvwM #LifeLongProud #FoodIsMedicine #HealthEquity #FQHC #SustainableHealthCare

As many of you know, I'm a strong advocate for making plant-based diets the norm, with high-environmental-impact foods (often animal products) available as an optional choice. This is something that I keep working as Strategy Advisor to Alianza Alimentaria. While hospitals and the healthcare sector face many sustainability challenges—from energy consumption and single-use medical devices to anaesthetic gases like nitrous oxide—the impact of food systems is often overlooked. That's why I’m thrilled to see initiatives that promote plant-based diets in hospitals. It’s a crucial step toward reducing the environmental footprint of healthcare. I hope this momentum continues and inspires broader sustainable changes across the sector. There’s so much more that hospitals can do to become more sustainable and circular. Here’s a great resource for those interested: https://lnkd.in/dRFx3-K8

Discover how the partnership between Morrison Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, and Vizient, Inc is creating a forward-thinking food strategy and revolutionizing healthcare at our nation’s top-ranked hospital. Watch the full video here to learn how food plays a crucial role in patient experience and well-being.

Spitball Sunday - Let's redistribute the $300B of acute care revenue ALREADY BEING REDISTRIBUTED, but let's not have it go to pharma AND let's make it an actual investment in health and not a temporary fix. Introducing the "Food" GLP-1. And if you insist, it can be a companion to current GLP-1's. Details after the tidbits below. If you are in healthcare today, I caution you not to scroll on by thinking this doesn't apply to you. I read hims & hers Q3 earnings and let me assure you, healthcare is about to blindsided. Here are some tibdits: 🤩 You're seeing mass market adoption of the personalization options across all of these categories...which is really bringing a level of clinical excellence, adherence, stickiness, retention, and customer demand 👀 And what that's doing is something really special...very rarely accessible to the mass market...hyper personalization approach to understand the underlying factors driving your weight gain 😵💫 70% of patients on the Hims & Hers platform that are getting...personalized treatment are adhering to the treatment (vs 40% in the traditional brick-and-mortar system) 💲 We ended the third quarter with over 400,000 subscribers on the platform from ZIP codes where the average household income is below $50,000, with nearly 40,000 of those subscribers in weight loss NOW THE SPITBALL CONCEPT - 12 month food based step-down program (MUST BE quality of food over quantity) 🍫 L-Nutra, Inc fast mimicking program Prolon Fast (Joseph Antoun) 🥘 Some highly personalized/democratized high quality MTM think LifeChef Mark Redlus (but only if we can get nutritionally dense food #regenerativeagriculture into the supply chain - I know Carter Williams and Katie Stebbins and my entire food posse can help here) #regenerativeagriculture 👩🍳 Integrated nutritional support / meal planning / food delivery EatLove PRO Monique Nadeau Kelly's Choice LLC Kelly Springer MS, RD, CDN 🥦 Regenerative fresh produce FreshRx Oklahoma Erin W. Martin 📱 MAYBE some low-cost personalized behavioral nudging think MediKarma Kris Narayan MYNDSET Michael Mircea Bidu Lirio Marten den Haring 💰 After the 12 months cash pay option for maintenance version of above THIS is how you help people. THIS is how you reverse disease. Take this one step further & add the clinical team, you have a health plan. If hims & hers isn't already thinking about their own health plan I'd be surprised and either way Craig Primack MD, FACP, FAAP. MFOMA, Dipl. ABOM we should talk. Spoiler - this isn't really a spitball - this is inevitable. Something like this is the only way out. N of 1 healthcare is happening, if it sounds foreign, it shouldn't. BP2 Health (and tons of others) can't unsee this vision. Robert Sundelius, FACHE Gary W. Druckenmiller, Jr. Josh Erndt-Marino Prasanthi Tondapu Tyler Hemmingson Martin Tull Peter Cranstone Clancy Harrison Geoffrey Rutledge Neil M. Meltzer, MPH, MHA Padmaja Patel,Sean Sullivan and on and on.. Please tag yourself.