David Levine, MD MPH MA
David Levine is a practicing general internist and clinician-investigator at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Ariadne Labs, and Harvard Medical School. He is active in clinical and translational research through a focus on optimizing quality time at home by shifting care home, decentralizing care, digital health technology, and measuring the quality and experience of health care. He is medical director for strategy and innovation for the Brigham & Women’s Home Hospital and co-chair of the Hospital at Home Users Group. The home hospital team at Ariadne studies the scaling of home hospital care and rural home hospital care, among other areas.
The U.S. behavioral health care system is facing a capacity crisis. The country currently has 13% fewer state psychiatric beds than it did in 2010; in Massachusetts alone, more than 700 patients await inpatient psychiatric care every day. Many patients wait for psychiatric care in the emergency department, sometimes for days, delaying their treatment and… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Launches Behavioral Health Home Hospital Feasibility Initiative
Dr. David Levine and the Ariadne Labs Home Hospital partnership with Appalachian Regional Healthcare to study home hospital in the rural setting is highlighted as part of the New York Times Magazine’s deep dive on the home hospital model.
Dr. David Levine joins Freakonomics, M.D. with Bapu Jena to discuss the Home Hospital model.
Dr. David Levine in the New York Times on the Home Hospital model.
How a new initiative applied the Scrum methodology to develop 20 tools in 40 weeksAround the world, hospitals are increasingly interested in establishing home hospital care programs that can expand a system’s capacity and provide measurable benefits to many patients. A 2020 study found that, compared to a typical hospital admission, home hospitalization reduced cost, health… Continue reading Accelerating Design, Test, and Spread for Home Hospital Innovations
