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)
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 […]
Caretalk: Interview with David Williams
I had the privilege to sit down with David Williams, a long time health care strategy consultant who has been writing, speaking, blogging, and podcasting about healthcare innovation for more than 15 years. David has had a longstanding passion for healthcare business and policy which he has parlayed into a career as a healthcare strategy […]
Full Stack Healthcare
Full Stack Healthcare? Now, that’s an interesting term. Jay Parkinson, MD – our new Chief Designer and one man digital accelerator – recently drew my attention to this phrase. The more I have thought through it, the more I like this concept to describe what we are trying to accomplish with our Connected System of […]
Dyssynchronous – Commentary on the state of video visits
When it comes to digital initiatives, establishment healthcare is a decade or so behind the rest of the world. As usual. I have previously described my view of how we should expect health that just Is – a seamless blend of technology, product, and service that come together in any channel that makes sense to […]
Healthcare that just IS
Telehealth. Virtual Care. Remote Medicine. Do we really need to make these distinctions anymore? I guess in healthcare people still do. But we shouldn’t. In the last decade, we’ve all started to move from the idea of digital-only, or bricks vs clicks, or other such phrases to the point where all of it—the mobile experience, […]