It’s been quite a while since we’ve done a Twitter Roundup and so I thought it would be fun to do one again. This is where we find a couple interesting, thought provoking, or eye popping tweets that you may find interesting and useful. Plus, we add a little commentary to each of them. Today we have an eclectic mix of topics.
So much more work to be done #healthtech #healthcare pic.twitter.com/hMdsDUbRRm
— Christopher Brereton (@RootChris) October 26, 2022
I remember my first EMR implementation about 16 years ago and we put up this same sign (although, it was Medicat instead of Epic for the EMR). It’s kind of sad that 16 years later we haven’t figured out a better way to onboard users so that patients don’t experience delays. However, my guess is that this will always be the case with pretty much every EHR and not just Epic which is featured in the above image. It takes time for the staff to learn the new workflows and processes.
VBC for the 5% that spend 50% of costs. FFS for the 95% of people that need simple, basic, occasional acute and preventive care. For the FFS world, simplify the admin/give people an unfettered allowance and let those services compete on excellent patient/customer service.
— Jay Parkinson MD, MPH (@jayparkinson) October 26, 2022
How we get to value based care is still the biggest mystery to me. Dr. Parkinson offers an interesting insight into a new way of thinking. Although, you can imagine how healthcare feels about new creative solutions like this. Not to throw too much hatorade on value based care, but I often feel like the value based care that’s happening today is more of a reporting game than it is actually shifting costs in a meaningful way. I’d love to hear if others have a better understanding of how the move to value based care is going to happen.
Eight Blues plans will rely solely on Amazon to deliver drugs to patients next year. https://t.co/SjW07Y0U0S via @modrnhealthcr #healthcare $AMZN
— Nona Tepper (@ntepper90) October 25, 2022
To be fair, I can’t read this article since it’s behind a subscriber wall, but I consider this announcement another data point in Amazon’s ongoing move into healthcare. I’m still the most bullish on Amazon of any of the large tech companies that’s getting into healthcare. This is an example of small moves that will add up to a great position for Amazon on healthcare.
