On a mission to unf*ck employer sponsored healthcare. Founder / CEO, Self Fund Health
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Pharma’s direct-to-consumer play through TrumpRx probably won’t move the needle on net drug costs. It’s less about savings and more a direct strike at PBMs and their rebate games.
Any “discount” patients see is basically the rebate that the PBM would have received.
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The most rewarding moment for a founder is not when their company is successful.
It's when early employees spin out and successfully start their own.
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There's nothing quite like the magic of a small team, perfectly aligned in accomplishing the slightly impossible.
It is electrifying, inspiring, and surprising every time.
Don't take this magic for granted if you're on such a team today. It is very rare—most never experience it
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The downside of strong growth in health care jobs: higher costs statnews.com/2020/01/14/job-… via @statnews
The latest post by @waitbutwhy calls this type of culture an Idea Lab. It’s the best mental model I’ve seen to describe the dynamics of a high performing start-up team. Great teams should strive to become Idea Labs.
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Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing.
This feels like one of those times when changes in regulation are going to enable meaningful new innovations to come to market modernhealthcare.com/operati…
HiTrust certification is one of the few ways you can invest in shortening Health IT sales cycles. The certification allow you to short circuit the end-less questionnaires and meetings.
My presentation from the 2019 Epic App Orchard Conference where I shared my lessons learned building an electronic medical record app company:
slideshare.net/jonathanbaran…
Lots of good nuggets here. Well said Andrew.
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Almost everything I've learned about startups:
* Aim to get to cash flow positive early
* Don't overly optimize for private market valuations
* Build a great team and culture
* Make sure the business model *works*
* Focus, focus, focus. Dilution of effort will crush you
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SCOOP: Amazon just launched Amazon Care, virtual medical clinics for its own employees.
That includes pharmacy, virtual visits, and in-home care.
cnbc.com/2019/09/24/amazon-l…
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Startup cash matters:
Switching to your customers paying you up front is so valuable... it's like raising another round.
Epic quietly releases USCDI on FHIR
uscdi.epic.com with no requirements to join App Orchard.
A fundamental challenge to bringing innovation to the health system is the time of the IT department. They are 110% overbooked (just to keep their own systems online) and every technology project must funnel through them.
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Great to see Epic opening up for companies like @healthfinch to automate more workflows and save more time for docs! lnkd.in/gDFSrT5