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The Link+ Can Be Your

Personal Life Saver “ You can’t separate the clinical
and the financial – not anymore.”

Every individual, whether you are 25 or 95
years old, should have the Link+ in their home.
Why do you have a smoke detector in your ceiling People who know Healthcare, know BDO.
or an alarm system in your home? The answer is
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The answer is very little or nothing. Do you
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Now you want to know what the Link+ is? You must have seen commercials
on TV for the "I've fallen, and I can't get up" device. The Link+ has brought it
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level to name a few. It also can measure your weight and body temperature and The BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation
the EKG monitor can check your heart rate. This is truly an amazing device!
As the healthcare industry enters an era of unprecedented transformation, anticipating and
Your vital signs can now be taken daily or as needed.
understanding the future state model of healthcare is more important than ever. From advising on
All your information is stored through the Link+ and transferred to your per- complex joint ventures, to M&A services, to healthcare redesign, BDO’s multidisciplinary teams help
sonal portal. This information can be passed on to your physician for review or organizations plan for and implement the financial and clinical changes needed to transform their

to do a telehealth video call so your physician will know your vital signs just like institutions — and thrive in the years to come.
at the doctor's office. Your doctor also can now bill Medicare or your insurance
company for the video call. The Link+ is HIPAA and FDA approved. It fits in the Alfredo Cepero, 305-420-8006 / acepero@bdo.com
palm of your hand. When you are home it sits in its cradle and lets you know Angelo Pirozzi, 646-520-2870 / apirozzi@bdo.com
your vital signs have been transferred successfully. It also will remind you to take
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Your family members also have access to your vital signs and can make video Accountants | Advisors | Doctors
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or countries can look in on you. If at any time you need emergency help, all you
have to do is press the red button and our 24/7 call center will answer. If you © 2019 BDO USA, LLP. All rights reserved.
leave the house you can take it with you and wear it around your neck as a neck-
lace or on your wrist. The Link+ also is equipped with fall detection and GPS, a
great safety feature. For a little more than a dollar a day you can be a member of
the Link+ club. Now you understand why the Link+ is your personal life saver!

Call us now at (561) 278-2222 to schedule a free demonstration
or visit our website at www.bestamericantelemedicine.com.
Louis Biasi is the CEO of American Telemedicine.

Cover Story: The Road to Herd Immunity

Continued from page 1

To defeat these enemies, we need trusted, familiar, accessible, clinically-appropriate
brick and mortar locations in every big city and small town staffed with qualified and
experienced inoculators. We need to focus on the goal of herd immunity. A massive net-
work already exists to facilitate this goal. It’s our physicians’ offices.
Each and every year, Americans visit their doctors’ offices nearly one billion times.
Doctors’ offices are in nearly every place in the U.S. and are proportionally distributed
based on patient population. It’s not a perfect distribution network, but close enough.
The most vulnerable populations, senior citizens and those with co-morbidities, are also
the most frequent visitors to doctors’ offices. If you have a doctor, you know how to get
there, where to park or be dropped off, and how to make an appointment.
As importantly, doctors and nurses are the most trusted members of our society,
ranked #1 and 2 according to the 2020 Gallup poll on most trusted professions. Patients
trust their doctors, their nurses, and the medical assistants who regularly care for them.
Who better to help overcome vaccine reluctance than the family doctor or nurse prac-
titioner in whom you confide or the cardiologist who’s kept you alive for years?
The decentralized approach comes with logistical challenges. How do you get vac-
cines to 230,000 doctors’ offices from sea to shining sea? That solution already exists
with skilled and trained clinical and distribution experts, i.e. the 80,000-strong army of
pharmaceutical sales representatives who have a professional relationship with the staff,
can be deployed nationwide and slightly repurposed to safely distribute the vaccines.
To combat the IT challenges every provider has experienced, we can turn to Zocdoc.
It’s launched a proprietary nationwide vaccination scheduling system which they’ve
pledged to provide for free.
We do need all hands on deck, but we don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Let’s deploy
our nation’s doctors’ offices to augment the hospitals, the stadiums, the drive-thrus, and
the overwhelmed public health departments.

Wayne Brackin, President & Chief Executive Officer, Kidz Medical,
can be reached at wayne.brackin@kidzmedical.com. Dr. Tina Carroll-Scott
is Medical Director, South Miami Children’s Clinic.

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