Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You: Charging Patients for Reaching Out Sends a Bad Message

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By Kimball Wilkins, VP of Digital Experience, Blue Shield of California September 2023 – During the pandemic, the message volume on patient portals rose by an estimated 157%.[1] For overstretched physicians, the increase is contributing to burnout. As the chair of one university medical system put it, “[W]e turned on 24/7/365 access for patients (who… Read more »

For the Second Straight Year, Gibson Consultants Makes the Inc. 5000

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[29-August-2023]   Healthcare executive search and consulting firm ranks among America’sfastest-growing private companies WILMINGTON, N.C., Aug. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — For the second consecutive year, Gibson Consultants, a retained search and consulting firm serving healthcare payers and digital health companies, has been named to the 2023 Inc. 5000. Every year, this prestigious ranking showcases the fastest-growing private companies in… Read more »

Oh No, Please Not Another Article about AI!

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By Lisa Suennen, CEO, Venture Valkyrie July 2023 – Yesterday I was chatting with an interesting person who works closely with young companies and who himself is considering whether he should further his own education in health tech.  He asked me this question:  What are the biggest challenges in the adoption of AI in healthcare… Read more »

How I Moved from Operating Executive at a Fortune 50 Payer to a Board Member and Angel Advisor/Investor Driving Health Care Transformation

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By Nancy Cocozza, Advisor and Board Member June 2023 – By just about any measure, I’ve been fortunate to have had a long, thoroughly enjoyable (sometimes arduous) career, building and turning around Medicare health plan businesses for large payers over the past two decades.  The bigger the business, the more complex the challenges and often… Read more »

The Opportunity of Rising Behavioral Health Utilization

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by Michael Shepherd, MD, CPA, MBA March 2023 – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of patients experiencing anxiety or depression symptoms have increased 25%, behavioral health care providers have seen increasing requests for behavioral health services exacerbating pre-covid access issues and, emergency rooms have seen an increasing number of pediatric patients seeking… Read more »

Every Company in Healthcare Should Have a ‘Code Red’ Team for AI

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by Geoff Halstead, Fraction Chief Product Officer and Digital Business Strategist February 2023 – For the last year, experts across the entire breadth of the technology industry – business and technical leaders, entrepreneurs, observers and venture capitalists alike – have been proclaiming that we have crossed over a critical threshold or ‘tipping point’ in the… Read more »

Real World Evidence Can Make Drugs More Affordable

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by Jennifer Stacey, SVP of Clinical Sciences & Operations, TriNetX January 2023 – It should be no surprise that profitability is the primary goal for pharmaceutical companies, as it allows them to continue to fund research and development (R&D) of new drugs, pay dividends to shareholders, and support their business operations. The truthful way to… Read more »