Commercial Advantage: Putting the concept into practice
Yesterday, we officially announced a new collaborative effort with Aetna to introduce our Advanced Primary Health offering in the Seattle Area. You can read our press release as well as some early articles from Fierce Healthcare as well as Puget Sound Business Journal on this announcement. This new effort is an example of Commercial Advantage, […]
Interview: Robyn Guillen – The Joys of Building
Robyn Guillen is a veteran of Crossover, having joined the company in 2012 as part of the original team that launched the Facebook (now Meta) Health Center. Like other leaders who joined in the early days, she was compelled not only by what the company was doing, but also where its vision could take it. […]
Who tells your story?
I was able to FINALLY see Hamilton: An American Musical last weekend. I distinctly remember reading Ron Chernow’s classic Alexander Hamilton in 2008 (while at a Health 2.0 Conference to boot!) and just being blown away by the hurricane force that was Hamilton. Having enjoyed the music and watched the video of the play, I […]
Health Innovation – Beyond “Bread and Circuses”
I had the opportunity to participate in the Founders Summit sponsored by Lynne Chou O’Keefe and the Define Ventures team. Besides the amazing Stein Eriksen Lodge setting (is there anything better than a summer evening in Park City?) and the inspiring performance by Aloe Blacc (man – I love hearing artists describe their creative process […]
Interview – Steven Chang, MD (Part 2): Bridging clinical practice and medical group operations
Steven Chang MD is a veteran of Crossover, having started as a practicing physician in the Applied Materials health center in 2011. In In his Part 1 Interview, we looked at his focus on developing care standards for Crossover. In Part 2, he speaks about how his work bridges clinical practice with medical group operations […]
Interview: Steven Chang, MD (Part 1) – Setting the Standard in Primary Care
Steven Chang, MD, is a veteran of Crossover Health, having started as a practicing physician in the onsite health center at Applied Materials in 2013. His arc at the company reflects not only his innate skills as a physician, but also provides a lens into the increasing complexity of Crossover as we have significantly expanded […]
Into the Arena: Are You Not Entertained?
Thinking of our constant push to deliver “health as it should be,” I keep coming back to two memes that I think should be brought together. First, most everyone is familiar with the legendary speech from President Theodore Roosevelt when he described the Man in the Arena: It is not the critic who counts; not […]
Value-Based Care: The Latest Virtue Signaling in Care Delivery
About two years ago, I started hearing quite a bit about Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, and Health Disparities. At first, I welcomed the new terms as they describe a very long-standing but newly recognized issue. I felt the world was finally waking up to the fact that so much of our health is […]
INTERVIEW: Dan Lord (Part 2) – Measuring the Difference
We recently spoke with Dan Lord, Crossover’s Medical Director for the Central Region, about his decade-long journey to and through Crossover. In Part 1, he touched on his background and the key initiatives he has been leading. In Part 2, he digs into the creation of the Guild infrastructure and the value of measurement-based care […]
Health Innovation and the Infinite Game
I have been reading an interesting book by James Carse on Finite and Infinite Games. I heard about the book when listening to the CEO of Shopify describe his approach to innovation and enabling structural shifts in how people live, shop, and transact. Simon Sinek picked up on this same theme and expanded it in […]