Featured Vendor Showcase – Vera Whole Health

Vera is an advanced primary care medical home worksite clinic model that consistently elicits strong reviews from clients. It’s been validated by The Validation Institute. Here’s an overview presentation. Vera Model_1788

Could We Be at the Edge of Health Care’s Tipping Point?

Brian Klepper Health care wonks play a game where they wonder whether health care really is changing in ways that are palpably better for everyone. Everyone, that is, except for the senior executives of the drug and device firms, electronic health record companies, major health plans and health systems that have become so adept at […]

Time to Fail: What Healthcare Can Learn from Airplanes

Bombardier, the manufacturers of the Learjet, collected data and programmed what it learned about critical failures in systems. They’ve also created a live indicator. The goal: safe flights. Brian Baker Originally Posted on The Doctor Weighs In Here on October 18, 2018 Most of us don’t think twice about getting on a commercial airline. The […]

Protecting Employers' Prescription Drug Interests

In today’s American healthcare system, employers can’t order Lipitor directly from Pfizer for their employees. Instead, employers and employees are forced to buy drugs through a middleman, the pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). Fingers have long been pointed in both directions to blame the other for the high cost of prescription drugs. The PBMs blame the […]

Getting High Performance Health Care Services Into the Market as Quickly as Possible

Brian Klepper Even though high performing health care services may offer strong value propositions, being unconventional makes them still a hard sell. The fixes of legacy health care organizations are in, and their service networks and methods are solidly entrenched. Innovation capable of displacement is never warmly received by incumbents. Accordingly, approaches that negatively impact […]

We All Have Health Care Stockholm Syndrome

David Contorno “No one is telling you that what it takes to be successful has changed……until NOW” -Jim Keenan, author of Not Taught “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think” – Thomas Edison I started in this crazy […]

Why US health insurance is such a bad deal

Nick Soman, CEO of Decent Originally posted 9/20/2018 on Hackernoon Americans hate their health insurance more than everything but Comcast. Literally: the industry gets a lower net promoter score than any other except TV and internet service. Net promoter score (NPS) by U.S. industry We hate our health insurance because it’s too expensive. Rising premiums, […]

The Box and the Opportunity for Health Care Change

Brian Klepper Below are calculations of major health plan stock price growth over a 37 quarter period between May 15, 2009 and September 28, 2018. Note that, during this time, the big plans’ stock price value skyrocketed between 585% and 1,072%, about 2.75x the growth of the Dow Jones Index and 2.25x the growth of […]