A Dog’s Breakfast: Rationalizing the Employer Health Benefits Ecosystem
Several years ago in a board meeting, my colleagues and I were presenting a complex initiative with several moving parts. After quietly listening to the presentation, one of our board members chided me. He was looking for a tightly organized, crisp presentation with clear, actionable next steps, and felt that wasn’t what he got. He […]
Back to Back To Campus
Back to Back To Campus Despite the significant progress over the last 6 months, the U.S seems to be re-tracing the hard fought gains against the pandemic. What was once considered a late summer / early fall return to campus, has just become alot more complex as we deal with the delta variant, ongoing policy […]
Employer Dilemma: A Framework for Returning to Work [ Safely ]
We are fortunate to work with some of the largest employers in the country, most of which have followed local or federal guidelines and ceased operations in the workplace because of COVID-19. They had to do this with little opportunity to reflect on the impact or prepare for an eventual transition back to the workplace. […]
Primary Care Power Generation
I was invited to speak at the 2019 Annual Health Analytics Summit (HAS) sponsored by Health Catalyst this week. We have had the privilege to get to know the Health Catalyst team well over the last 18 months after having selected them to power our health analytics platform. This capability is essential to our future […]
The Three Pillars of Disruptive Innovation
In preparing for our upcoming Client Bombora, I have been reviewing the Innovator’s Prescription and discussing key components of the model with co-author Jason Hwang, MD. The Innosite Group has made some good progress since the original publication (2007) to more clearly articulate and further refine the model. A new graph that is part of […]
Freedom Edition—Triumph over Tyranny (of the Visit)
When you consider primary care as a “practice” concept, it is so strange to see how the “office visit” became the center of gravity. Beginning with billing codes, which naturally led to payment models, that were then reinforced by performance incentives, and ultimately encoded into “the way it is,” the physical visit with your provider […]
Day 47: Succinct Health Care – Is there an app for that?
Succinct (sək-sĭngkt’) adj. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse. Marked by or consisting of few words that are carefully chosen The other day I was having a conversation with our Director of Membership Experience Stephen Gaines regarding how ineffective and inadequate the current health care experience is for pa
Day 80: My take on “meaningful use”
Meaningful (mē’nĭng-fəl)adj. Having meaning, function, or purpose. Fraught with meaning; significant: I grow exceptionally tired of the entire “meaningful use” conversation. I see multiple definitions, serious scholarly work, conferences, and an entire industry built up around or attempting to knock down this obnoxious term. Its wearisom
Health Care Moonshot: The Health Care X PRIZE Development Project
Moonshot (mūn shŏt) n. Description of the audacious attempt and the subsequent race to place a man on the moon Used as an analogy to describe similarly gigantic challenges under competitive influence The best health care book I have ever read, is ironically the first one I was fortunate to pick up. “Redefining Health: Creating […]
Personal Health Advisor: The Perfect Care Coordinator
Coordinator (kō-ôr‘dn-ā’shən) n. The act of coordinating The state of being coordinated; harmonious adjustment or interaction. I am finishing up some more of my postings related to the Innovators Prescription, but prior to do so I wanted to highlight a key insight mentioned when evaluating the disruptions required to help the Primary Care sys