Cognitive Capacity, Part 2 – Virtual Load Balancing
Cognitive Capacity, Part 1 explored the concept of Cognitive Capacity and how COVID-19 could serve as the catalyst and global call to higher and better use of our collective cognitive power. Part 2 explores how Care Team Cognitive Capacity is maximized through Virtual Load Balancing when delivering Pandemic Primary Care. Pandemic Primary Care is a [&hellip
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Extirpating the “Health Insurance” myth
Extirpating (ĕk’stər-pāt’) v. To pull up by the roots. To destroy totally; exterminate. To remove by surgery. I recently took a great road trip with my two boys. We rented one of the new Kia Soul’s which my boys recognized from a very funny commercial developed to highlight its hipster (hamster?) vibe. The commercial reminded […]
Crossover Piquant: Check this out!
Piquant (pē-känt’) adj. Appealingly provocative Charming, interesting, or attractive One of the great promises of technology is to make things simpler, easier, and more affordable for end users. In the medical practice, we have so much complexity, difficulty, and cost in most of our processes that when we find something that actually works as adverti
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 65: Proof is in the Passion – Crossover Explained
Passion Tonight I attended an awesome charity event called Savannah’s Organic Ranch. Savannah was a beautiful girl stricken with cancer whose last wish was to pass along her love of organic farming. The spark that was her life and encapsulated in her last wish has fueled a community wide passion for spreading representative organic “ranches”
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