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.
There’s been a lot of conversation about narrow networks in the past few years. 90% of the focus has been [...]
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) archive digital health health plan narrow network oscar Source Type: blogs
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.
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) digital health health plan narrow network oscar Source Type: blogs
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.
(more…)
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 28, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) digital health health plan narrow network oscar Source Type: blogs
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…
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Source: e-CareManagement - July 22, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care coordination digital health healthcare interoperability networks platform Source Type: blogs
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 of these seven criticisms. Drawing on my back...
Source: e-CareManagement - April 26, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Companies Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) network effects platform startup uber Source Type: blogs
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 of these seven criticisms. Drawing on my back...
Source: e-CareManagement - April 26, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Companies Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) network effects platform startup uber Source Type: blogs
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 platf...
Source: e-CareManagement - June 22, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
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 to interoperability, and describes steps the federal government and the private sector can tak...
Source: e-CareManagement - April 12, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) EHR health IT information blocking information technology ONC Source Type: blogs
Where ’ s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy? [Snippet]
Where’s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy?
Dear Hospital CIO/CEO,
So you think that hoarding patient data is a good business strategy? …that it discourages patients from going to another hospital?
So why is the marketing department buying billboards encouraging patients to switch for convenience? to save a few minutes?
Permalink: http://bit.ly/1yclLAV
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Source: e-CareManagement - April 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Where ’s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy? [Snippet]
Where’s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy?
Dear Hospital CIO/CEO,
So you think that hoarding patient data is a good business strategy? …that it discourages patients from going to another hospital?
So why is the marketing department buying billboards encouraging patients to switch for convenience? to save a few minutes?
Permalink: http://bit.ly/1yclLAV
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Source: e-CareManagement - April 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Where’s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy? [Snippet]
Where’s the Evidence that Hoarding Data is a Good Business Strategy?
Dear Hospital CIO/CEO,
So you think that hoarding patient data is a good business strategy? …that it discourages patients from going to another hospital?
So why is the marketing department buying billboards encouraging patients to switch for convenience? to save a few minutes?
Permalink: http://bit.ly/1yclLAV
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Source: e-CareManagement - April 10, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Hospitals ’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum [Snippet]
Hospitals’ Soft Underbelly: The Capital Conundrum
Tax-exempt hospital systems without fortress balance sheets and top quartile operating performance will be capital constrained in the future healthcare economy, even if tax-exempt debt continues be cheap and accessible. Stating the obvious: operating a hospital is a capital intensive activity. Historically, hospitals have required about $1 of invested capital to generate $1 of hospital revenue. As hospital systems contemplate changing their facility-based fee-for-service models into health enterprise models responsible for managing populations of patients and b...
Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
