a lot of horizontal companies are very attracted to healthcare because it's a huge market and a lot of tedious work - but most struggle because they don't understand how the industry actually works excited to announce healthcare 101 is back 7/13 - 7/24 (virtually)! I will teach you all of the different weird incentives and players in the space, which took me 10 years to figure out You will be able to answer questions like - "why don't practices pay for anything" - "what does health insurance care about" - "why don't people get paid for making patients healthy" - "why are there so many acronyms for everything jesus christ" You can sign up in the comments, you will be enlightened

If we want to tackle fraud waste and abuse, one way to do this is create better digital identity layers for everyone delivering care, hospice, home healthcare, etc. The issue right now is that it's an absolute mess to try and identify the bad actors because it happens through webs of third-parties But I think that this is solvable! full post is here: outofpocket.health/p/fake-do…

my two pieces of advice to anyone starting a new job: 1) Write down all the things you find surprising as you're learning them. You'll be surprised how quickly you become desensitized and start operating in a "that's just how it's done" manner. But a lot of the interesting ideas will come from revisiting those moments later. 2) You get like a 30 day window where you get to ask any dumb question you want - you should 100% use it and truly ask as many simple questions that confuse you as possible

We think the future of events are small, curated, and actually focused on learning You've probably been to these mega conferences and wondered "did...did the panelist actually say anything?" Out-Of-Pocket conferences are the opposite of that. Highly curated groups, tactical workshops that we co-develop with attendees, and a focus on connecting attendees with each other to problem solve their specific issues Right now we have 3 microconferences - Data Camp for healthcare data professionals - Ops Knowledgefest for people grinding through actual operations - And our new software engineer conference, Ship It (applications due soon!)

We...gotta blow up National Provider Identifiers NPIs were designed in 2004 as billing identifiers for doctors, not identity credentials. So anyway they became used as identity credentials. The entire registry is publicly searchable and downloadable, physicians frequently use it to login to things or do actions only a doctor theoretically should be doing. But that also means we actually don't have real, private identity credentials for physicians which makes it tough to verify someone online is actually a doctor. On top of that, it's a mess to use in any data analysis. A building and a physician can both have NPIs, and the physician can work at multiple buildings. So trying to map this out is an absolute nightmare. We should move to a digital identity credential for physicians - it'll both solve the growing problem of fake doctors AND make it easier to use healthcare data

Is anyone else’s feed now a combination of fable the AI model and fable the video game having advanced NPC systems

The first ever drug candidate with the inclusion criteria of “Indian uncle getting too loose at the function”

We should have those punching bag contests but with continuous glucose monitors

This would solve the mental health crisis

This is such a huge issue -for the profession

we should have a "scared straight" for healthcare so many people don't understand what the end stage of a disease looks like, so it's hard to understand why doing the preventive thing is worthwhile Like seeing end stage cirrhosis or tetanus without the vaccine