Pandemic Primary Care
Clearly, the routine services that used to fill our days (annual physical exams, wellness checks, condition management appointments, or even routine acute care visits) now seem so inconsequential as we face the progression of COVID-19. (and, at the request of health authorities, we have called our members to cancel all such “non-essential” care services)
Running Into the Fire
It has been an unprecedented several weeks in our country. We all watched with unease the scenes from China, and then with concern as it spread to Europe. nd now it is the United States’ turn to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak en masse. So much has been written about what to expect, what we […]
Big Retail Takes Aim At Care Delivery
At the recent HLTH conference, I was able to listen in while two massive retailers described their expanding healthcare efforts. First, CVS Chief Executive Officer Larry Merlo shared his message about how the company will leverage their massive physical facility investment to be within “10 minutes of 90% of America.” Later, we heard Walmart’s VP [&he
The Spark that Lit the Fire
When I started our Crossover Health journey ten years ago, one of the forces driving me was the decline of great primary care. It may initially seem a bit odd for an emergency medicine physician to feel this way, but it was really driven by self preservation. In emergency medicine, we are acutely aware of […]
Bombing the Bombora
Peter Heywood has been part of the Crossover journey for over ten years now, helping us develop and refine our positioning as we have evolved from our original mandate and now culminating in the “Connected System of Health” vision. We invited him down to our client Bombora held on August 5-6, 2019 and I asked […]
The Most Trusted Platform
Last fall, I had the privilege to attend the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable in both Boston and Las Vegas. EHIR is an up and coming forum for activist employers who are seeking to redefine their approach to healthcare delivery as they contemplate how to rein in costs, improve quality, and increase engagement. Kudos to Michael […]
Crossover Health: Welcome to Next Generation Health Care!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crossover Health Launches New Model of Primary Care in South Orange County Innovative membership service delivers Urgent, Primary, and Online Care Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) October 1, 2010 Crossover Health Medical Group announced today the launch of their flagship membership-based, primary care practice in Aliso Viejo, California. The new
Day 49: “Magically” raising the Bar in Primary Care
Magic (măj’ĭk) adj. Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects. Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural The California Health Care Foundation does some really good work. I listened to their President Mark Smith give a speech at the Microsoft conference last June and came away really impressed with him and wh