Interview with Karoline Hilu, MD (Part 1)
Karoline Hilu, MD is Chief Strategy Officer at Crossover Health. She joined us five years ago, after time spent in healthcare policy, corporate strategy, and finance. Karoline has been at the heart of Crossover’s growth and transformation into a different kind of care provider. In this first post, she provides some insights into her thoughts […]
Cognitive Capacity, Part 1–Species Level Time Value
I have loved seeing non-healthcare experts rushing in to help with COVID-19. There are many talented, smart, and capable people in science, technology, finance, arts, academia, and all walks of life that are being drawn into this fight. We need the mental focus and the creative problem solving from every profession, from every field of […]
We are all remote now
As I wrote in my prior post, we have been ramping into a 24/7, every waking moment, COVID-19 response since early March. While the warning signs and extreme measures taken in China seemed overly authoritarian, I think the Italian response and serialized shutdowns were a big wakeup call here in America. The crowd that was […]
The Black Swan – Bad Omen or Bountiful Opportunity?
Earlier this week, I was in Philadelphia pitching to a client on a national expansion plan. The markets were in the longest bull run in history, and while observers will always tell you they end, most press was celebrating the achievement and predicting its continuation. Employment was at a high point, interest rates were not […]
Getting Real: Can Health 2.0 Stay Relevant?
Relevant (rĕl’ə-vənt) 1. Having to do with the matter at hand; to the point I read with amusement Susanna Fox’s redux review about the relevance of Health 2.0 in general and in changing patient’s behavior specifically. Here questions reveals her bias in a very limited definition of Health 2.0 that I attempted to abolish originally […]
CLEAR! Shocking Google Health Back to Life
* This is the second part of my commentary on the June HealthVault Connected Care Conference in Seattle. I hope to use this post to motivate my good friends at Google Health into taking a much more public, visible, and proactive role in the health conversation. More importantly, it is a call to Google HQ […]
CPT Codes-Why physicians always get screwed, thanks AMA
CPT Codes Set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology Established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing specific items and services provided in delivering health care. Daniel Palestrant comes right back from his opening salvo of last week to continue his crusade
Ferrari Medicine: We don’t need more horsepower
Horsepower (hôrs’pou‘ər) n. A unit of power in the U.S. Customary System, equal to 745.7 watts or 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. The power exerted by a horse in pulling I had the opportunit to present to the Managed Care Executive Group yesterday in Chandler, AZ. In a beautiful desert setting, this group of executive IT […]
“An Unnecessary Effort”: Wuesthoff Health Pays for EOB’s
Unnecessary (ŭn-nĕs’ĭ-sĕr‘ē) adj. Not necessary; needless. Serving no useful purpose or function You have got to love it, huh? Did you see the most recent series of lawsuits just announced by the AMA. They must just be loving the opportunity to pile on their arch nemesis insurance companies at a time when their very future […]
Mary Jerome: The Rosa Parks of Transparency
Scheme (skēm) n. A systematic plan of action A secret or devious plan An orderly combination of related parts “Usual and customary” just became “Transparency and consistency” The United Health Group, in what will become a sweeping decision (interesting interview with author here) within the Health Insurance industry, was just levied