Ten Fold (10X): Is There Really an Order of Magnitude Difference?
Magnitude (măg’nĭ-tūd‘) n. Greatness in size and extent. Greatness in significance or influence. Two recent news items caught my attention. They follow on the heels of some of my recent writings on VistA EHR, MUMPS based systems, and the idea of virtuous cycle investments as a true stimulus in helping to lay down the health […]
Stimulus? What Government Should Learn From the X-Prize
Stimulus (stĭm’yə-ləs) Something causing or regarded as causing a response. An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates an activity or response. Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive. I am completely NAUSEATED . . . this entire stimulus package is going to be one of the greatest debacles ever witnessed in […]
Launch: Personal Health Advisory Services
Crossover (krôs’ō‘vər) n. The adaptation of a musical style, as by blending elements of two or more styles or categories, to appeal to a wider audience. A recording designed to appeal to wide or diverse audience I have been blogging for just over two years at Crossover Health while also working as a strategic consultant […]
Transparency Trek: The Million EOB March
Trek (Trĕk) n. A journey or leg of a journey, especially when slow or difficult. A journey by ox wagon, especially a migration I have been thinking alot about EOB’s. How did these anomolies of reason, this perversions of clarity, and obfuscators of objectivity come into existence? To what intent are they provided to the […]
Hamster Wheel Medicine – Getting off the treadmill
Treadmill (trĕd’mĭl‘) n. An exercise device consisting of a continuous moving belt on which a person can walk or jog while remaining in one place. A similar device operated by an animal treading a continuous sloping belt. Today, Dr. Jordan Shlain and I opened the morning session of the 2009 WHIT Conference by introducing the […]
Democratizing Concierge Medicine: First Look at Current Health
Current Health (kûr‘ənt helth) n. Membership based, comprehensive primary care practice based in San Francisco area with plans to spread branded clinics throughout the West. Millennial version of the classic vision of a trusted physician who makes house calls. As I have mentioned previously, I have been involved in some really cool projects recently
Health Care Value Chain: Moving On Up!
Value Chain (văl’yū chān) n. 1. A sequence of value-enhancing activities 2. A chain of activities that gives the products more added value than the sum of added values of all the activities. Last week I was able to participate in a very cool live podcast with the ReadWriteWeb editor Richard Macmanus. While I am […]
Twittering Scott Shreeve, MD: What are you doing?
Tweet (twēt) n. 1. A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird. 2. A “Tweet” is an individual message (or “update”) posted from Twitter. Twitter is an interesting application with a very simple premise – your friends and associates are actually interested in knowing “What are you doing”. These “tweets” are constrained […]
Cash is King: Differential Premiums as a driver of behavior change
Differential (dĭf‘ə-rĕn‘shəl) adj. Of, relating to, or showing a difference. Constituting or making a difference; distinctive. Dependent on or making use of a specific difference or distinction. This is the third in a four part series of interviews with the panelist of “The Business Case for Health 2.0” closing session on the open
Between Retail and Concierge – Is there a place for branded primary care clinics?
Retail (rē’tāl) n. Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods or commodities To sell in small quantities directly to consumers The “retailization” of health care continues to advance in fits and starts. There are multiple fronts of attack in this movement – everything from general transparency issues such as pricing to physici