Hospices, Palliative Providers Innovate to Better Serve Rural Patients
By Jim Parker at Hospice News, 11/21/19 “Rural families have less access to hospice care programs than people in more concentrated populations, according to a [...]
Telemedicine 3.0: How Video Technology Can Support People With Serious Illness
by Michael Fratkin at the Center to Advance Palliative Care's Palliative in Practice Blog, 6/12/19 "The accelerating pace of technology that is pressing us back [...]
How California Is Changing Palliative Care
by Beth Baker at Next Avenue on November 27, 2018: [California's] Medicaid program takes a novel approach for some with life-threatening diseases. "In January, California became the first state [...]
The talk: Younger brain cancer patients provide a model for patient empowerment
by Renata Khoshroo Louwers at SCOPE, 10/12/18 “In a 55-second video that is both playful and profound, patient advocates Liz Salmi and Charlie Blotnerasked Michael Fratkin, MD, [...]
Leveraging Telehealth to Support Aging Americans
C-TAC, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and AHIP, America's Health Insurance Plans, have collaborated to release a summary of information on the benefits of [...]
Hospice in Crisis
by Joanne Kennen for The Agenda. "In an isolated rural stretch of Northern California, Dr. Michael Fratkin, founder of a company called Resolution Care, is [...]
Palliative Care in Rural America: An Interview with Michael Fratkin
Interview with Eric Widera and Alex Smith at GeriPal: A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Blog, 4/25/17 "Alex: What are the main services you provide? If [...]
Telehealth Is Opening Doors for Hospice and Palliative Care
by Larry Beresford at AAHPM, 3/29/17 "Michael Fratkin, MD, a palliative care physician and telehealth champion in Eureka, CA, has led development of a service [...]
Welcome to the Future: Telemedicine and Value-Based Payment
by Michael D. Fratkin, MD, and Stephen G. Franey, MBA at AJMC.com, December 9, 2016 "What we’re doing, as palliative care specialists at ResolutionCare, is [...]
Emergence of the corporate palliative care sector
by Larry Beresford in The Lancet Blog, November 29, 2016 In his article, Beresford calls ResolutionCare "An Upstart Startup Outsider in Corporate Palliative Care." Read [...]