Healthcare innovation; focusing on the “Brilliant basics”

What innovations will have the most impact on healthcare?

TL;DR: Modernizing Clinical care team experience.

Keep the Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacy team focused on patient management.

Healthcare is centered around the Primary care practice and how a patient and Primary care doctor interact. This means that your primary care provider (Doctor or Nurse Practitioner) needs to at a minimum know your diagnostic results, Specialist appointments, etc. Primary care providers get into medicine to help make patients lives better.

The issue is that it is getting more expensive and time consuming to help patients navigate healthcare systems AND it is essentially an unpaid activity for Primary care clinics and Specialty clinics-where the main care management happens.

Primary care clinics are constantly looking for ways to reduce the overhead. This is an area where the government officials, Start-ups and private investors that I have talked to see real opportunity for innovation and new companies provide new solutions that reduce costs.

2 Specific areas of Primary Care management:

Automation of administrative/reporting tasks: Pulling information from clinical visits to create billing reports. Automating next steps; Sending the prescription to the patients preferred pharmacy, Appointment requests…