Sherpaa

How Virtual Primary Care Saves Time, Money, and Stress for Simple and Complex Situations

We recommend reaching out to Sherpaa (Virtual Primary Care) for anything that’s not an emergency. Sherpaa members create cases within Sherpaa’s app for things like “I’m sick” or…

Telehealth vs. Direct Primary Care vs. Virtual Primary Care

If you’re a broker, benefits consultant, or independent TPA, it’s important to understand your clients’ options for increasing healthcare access for employees. Accessing healthcare appropriately and cost-effectively is wildly…

The most disruptive concept in healthcare

When you have an ongoing relationship with a doctor, even if it’s an exclusively online one, and when that doctor can order lab or imaging tests to confirm suspicions, 70% of issues can be solved without an in-person visit. However, 30% of issues need, at…

Healthcare Networks, Reimagined

Your network is everything. If you don’t have a kick ass genuine network both personally and professionally, you can only provide a fraction of your value to your friends, family, and clients.

There’s a 3 minute wait for an Uber right now and a 3 week wait to see my PCP

When there is any type of solution out there, there’s a problem that’s been defined and some designer then created a solution to solve that problem. And when people have that problem, they hire the…

In an era of skyrocketing healthcare costs, how do you make care more affordable?

Making a doctor’s care affordable has been a dream of mine for the last 10 years. And I strongly believe that redesigning how healthcare is delivered and injecting some technology into that…

Health Insurance Companies Should Stop Stifling Innovation

One thing’s for sure — deductibles are on the rise. Just like when you get into a car accident, you’ve got to spend your deductible and then your car insurance starts covering the repairs. Except, when you’re getting your car…

How do you price a new kind of healthcare service?

We all know how traditional healthcare pricing works. You pay your monthly health insurance premiums. Then, one day, you need a doctor so you pay your $40 co-pay to visit the urgent care center. A few weeks later, you get a bill from the…

What would happen if we had true price transparency in healthcare?