Direct Practice

01 Oct

Posted at 15:46h in Change Agents, Crossover, Design, Direct Practice, Entrepreneurship, For Employers, Innovation, Launch, Medical Home, Membership, Primary Care, Quality, Value by
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crossover Health Launches New Model of Primary Care in South Orange County Innovative membership service delivers Urgent, Primary, and Online Care Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) October 1, 2010 Crossover Health Medical Group announced today the launch of their flagship membership-based, primary care practice in Aliso...

08 Jul

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CPT Codes Set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology Established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing specific items and services provided in delivering health care. Daniel Palestrant comes right back from his opening salvo of last...

02 Mar

Posted at 11:30h in Current Health, Direct Practice, For Employers, Health 2.0, Innovation, Leadership, Medical Home, Value by
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Systemness (sĭs'tə-m nes) adj. Arrange according to a system or reduce to a system The degree to which something shares the attributes of a system Last week I attended the World Health Care Congress Consumer Connectivity conference in San Diego. The Twitter stream was at near flood capacity,...

10 Dec

Posted at 15:26h in Conferences, Current Health, Direct Practice, For Employers, Innovation, Medical Home, Quality, Transparency, Value by
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Treadmill  (trĕd'mĭl') n. An exercise device consisting of a continuous moving belt on which a person can walk or jog while remaining in one place. A similar device operated by an animal treading a continuous sloping belt. Today, Dr. Jordan Shlain and I opened the morning session...

08 Dec

Posted at 12:11h in Change Agents, Consumerism, Current Health, Direct Practice, Entrepreneurship, For Employers, Healthcare, Innovation, Medical Home, Value by
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Current Health (kûr'ənt helth) n. Membership based, comprehensive primary care practice based in San Francisco area with plans to spread branded clinics throughout the West. Millennial version of the classic vision of a trusted physician who makes house calls. As I have mentioned previously, I have been...

11 Nov

Posted at 10:39h in Advisory Services, Consumerism, Crossover, Direct Practice, Entrepreneurship, For Employers, Health 2.0, Innovation, Value by
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Tweet (twēt) n. 1. A weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird. 2. A “Tweet” is an individual message (or “update”) posted from Twitter. Twitter is an interesting application with a very simple premise - your friends and associates are actually interested in knowing...

16 Sep

Posted at 08:38h in Direct Practice, For Employers, Innovation, Leadership, Quality, Value by
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Retail (rē'tāl) n. Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods or commodities To sell in small quantities directly to consumers The "retailization" of health care continues to advance in fits and starts. There are multiple fronts of attack in this movement - everything from general...