Meet Caroline Yang, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Home Hospital Program

This episode of PopHealth Week features Caroline Yang, MD. Dr. Yang is an attending hospitalist physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Home Hospital Program. She is interested in the intersection between healthcare and policy, business, and innovation. Her academic background is in neuroscience and entrepreneurship & management (Johns Hopkins University), with extensive leadership and research experience. Her interests include intergrating medical, political, and business capacities to ultimately improve patient outcomes and care delivery, reduce costs, and innovate better solutions. We discuss the continued trend towards higher acuity in home hospital services, the range of patients and services provided and screening criteria for elignbility.