Patient Communities Should Change | Out-Of-Pocket

Entrenched interests are tough to navigate, but I would say that this crisis is forcing every line item and service provider to be scrutinized and see exactly what they’re providing. Right now, every buyer in healthcare is trying figure out how their different healthcare service providers can help them in a remote-first way, and most of these compa... See more

Patient-Directed Care

Circling around all of this continues to be a more fundamental shift of how people are paying attention to biology and their own health.

While patient-directed care broadly is an increasingly consensus trend (borne out of the rise of the quantified self of yesterday and a large number of growing podcasters/authors today) the nua... See more

Fast forward to today, and a dizzying number of new and compelling care options for patients in new formats have hit the market. Novel payment models, rising healthcare costs, shifting financial responsibilities, a consumer preference for virtual-first experiences, and emerging market segments with new buyer dynamics have opened up new distribution... See more

If you believe that healthcare will eventually be more consumer oriented, providing upfront costs and predictability will be a key component to that going forward.

I think for a long time we over-indexed on giving patients as many choices as possible and hoped they made the right ones without realizing the most important (and maybe only interpretable) metric for the majority of people is how much this is going to hit their bank accounts.

If we moved to outcomes-based pricing then existing drugs that come to market will look for solutions to help them achieve those outcomes as part of a bundle. If a patient doesn’t take their drugs and therefore has bad outcomes, the drug companies will want to invest in tools/software/services that work in conjunction with their drugs to ensure tho... See more