Today's independent physician practices and even hospitals are locked into a system which contributes not only to the financial and emotional pain of the people they were called upon to heal, but to delivering the most expensive care in the civilized world.
Read MoreMaybe the last time you walked into a retail-based clinic, you did not see an MD. Maybe the same thing happened at your hospital outpatient clinic or an urgent care center. Physician "extenders" and advanced practice professionals, such primary care pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are winning the war on branding. They and their professional associations have done a good job branding their services while complacent doctors have not. What happened?
Read MorePatient portals are supposed to provide patients access to their EMR information and make it easier to interact with their doctors. They are taughted to be an important weapon in the patient engagement arsenal. Many just misfire.
Read MorePhysician entrepreneurship has changed from being a curiosity to becoming mainstream in five short years. Defined as physicians pursuing opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user-defined value through the deployment of biomedical and clinical innovation, we are starting to see some trends and fault lines forming.
Read MoreDisrupting sick care is the new parlor game. Of course, even the guy who coined the term "disruptive" now feels he has to defend himself, so I guess the good news is that we are becoming the victims of our own success. Most of the talk has been about changing patient/customer/consumer/prosumer/client behavior.
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