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Oscar’s Narrow Network Strategy: Will it Work?
Writing in Vox, Sarah Kliff describes VC-backed health plan Oscar’s latest twist on strategy:
Oscar’s hope is that it can take narrow networks to the next level; rather than simply cutting costs, Oscar wants to use a narrow network to improve patient experience by deeply integrating with the hospitals and doctors it works with.
Is this the right strategic approach for Oscar? It depends.
Healthcare’s Transformation into the “Pinnacle” Platform Industry
A “Platform Revolution” is sweeping America. Platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Airbnb are turning existing industries inside-out and creating new landscapes never yet dreamed of.
…but healthcare hasn’t been affected much…yet. Below, I’ll briefly explain:
Why healthcare has been slow to adopt platforms
What’s changing
Why in the long-run healthcare promises to become the pinnacle platform industry.
Read the rest of this story on Tincture…
If I Describe Your Company as the “Uber of Healthcare”, Don’t Take It as a Compliment. 7 Reasons Why.
I am constantly surprised by the number of companies that intentionally describe themselves as the “Uber of Healthcare”. If you hear me describing your company that way, I don’t mean it as a compliment. What I do mean is some combination of:
Your ethics and values are dubious
Your swashbuckling disregard for regulatory boundaries is backfiring
You underestimated the competition
Your network effects are overstated
Your platform governance model is Medieval
Your business model is unproven
Your valuation is inflated
Let’s take a more detailed look at each […]
MIT Platform Strategy Summit, Boston, July 10
Healthcare has been a laggard in adopting platforms…
…but that’s rapidly changing. In fact, I’ll suggest that healthcare will become the PINNACLE platform industry.
Why?
Many value propositions are very strong — literally “life-or-death”.
Acute and episodic care has focused on relatively discrete, time-limited events; the emerging model of chronic care and population health requires ongoing collaboration among care providers and patients.
Many of the value propositions of digital health are dependent upon development of interoperable platforms. For example, non-interoperable platforms would NOT work for:
The […]
ONC Report on Health Information Blocking: A Solid Double, But NOT a Home Run
A Stand Up Double
By Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA
Last Friday ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) released a long-awaited Report On Health Information Blocking. The ONC blog capsulizes the report:
Health information blocking occurs when persons or entities knowingly and unreasonably interfere with the exchange or use of electronic health information. Our report examines the known extent of information blocking, provides criteria for identifying and distinguishing it from other barriers […]
Apple ResearchKit is Open Source, But is it “Open”?
For now, the answer is “we don’t know”.
But… the question is very important and worth tracking over the coming months. Let’s not assume that open source will equate to “open”.
7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN Article
My article “Seven Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem” is published in the February 2015 issue of Healthcare Innovation News.
You can download a copy of the article by clicking here.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides are available here.
The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of Health Wonk Review
It’s the middle of winter. Feeling blah? Need some stimulation? You’ve come to the right place!
Welcome to The “Shake the Winter Blahs” Edition of the Health Wonk review. For the second time, it’s my honor to host HWR — providing you summaries and links to the best recent writing in the health blogosphere. Let’s go!
Federal Health Policy
At the Health Affairs Blog, Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt jumps off from the recent controversy about Jonathan Gruber’s remarks describing the American public as […]
PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem
I hope you’ll enjoy reviewing my slides from my December 3 presentation at the 11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference.
The presentation is formally entitled: “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”…
…but more informally, I pose and address 7 key questions — the answers to which will shape the future of the PDHP ecosystem. The answers aren’t all that clear yet because it’s very early and because most of the companies involved haven’t yet shared a lot of details about […]
ACO Lessons Learned: Revisiting the Timing of Downside Risk
The editor and publisher of Accountable Care News have been generous in allowing me to republish my article from the November 2014 issue.
Click here to download a .pdf copy of the article. It’s in-depth — about 2,000 words.
Here’s the article in a nutshell:
One of the most critical aspects of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO has been around the timing and certainty of requiring mandatory downside financial risk for physician and hospital participants. Provider protests cajoled CMS […]