Former HealthCare.Gov CMO Josh Peck Launches Get America Covered to Fill ACA Marketing Gap
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Joshua Peck, Co-Founder of Get America Covered,@GetUSCovered, a non-profit entity launched by former employees of HealthCare.gov, to fill a marketing void in this year’s shortened Open Enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Peck discusses the millions of Americans who qualify for subsidies to offset the cost of insurance and the star power he’s assembled to help get the word out.
Ideas42.org Managing Director Ted Robertson on Transformational Potential Applying Behavioral Design in Healthcare
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Ted Robertson, Managing Director of Ideas42, a non-profit design firm that applies the disciplines of behavioral economics and behavioral design to develop scalable solutions to transform systems in health care, government, civic and corporate entities. Mr. Reynolds discusses their recent report for the Commonwealth Fund that explores the potential for transforming health care by applying behavioral economics principals and deploying behavioral design teams.
Conversations on Health Care hostsMark Masselli andMargaret Flinter discuss an important and possibly confusing topic–blockchain technology and health care.
What is It?
Though it sounds more like relating to DNA strands or chemical analysis, blockchain is actually a way to structure and secure information.
While principles were initially applied to the financial world such as Bitcoin, it has many applications for many diverse industries, including healthcare.
In reality, blockchain is “an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way,” according to The Harvard Business Review.
What Does it Mean for Patents?
Blockchain is Poised to Disrupt Health Care: Listen to CHC’s Mark Masselli and Dr. Samir Damani
It’s easy to see healthcare is drowning in data of all sorts. From patient records, complex insurance billing, clinical trials, medical research and more, medicine is complex.
It lets patients self-govern their personal health records.
The technology address the current lack of adaptable in the health system.
Provides a way to reward patients for behavior changes leading to better chronic care self-management.
Have less admin time for doctors so they can spend more time on patient care.
Even better sharing of research results to facilitate new drug and treatment therapies for disease.
Electronic and Secure Sharing
One major improvement is in electronic medical records, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter of Community Health Centerconcedes.
Specifically, blockchain allows patients’ records to be securely viewed by any provider who needs it. This saves time, money and duplication in procedures, streamlines the process, avoids confusion and sometimes helps in life-threatening issues to share health information across many different providers.
The goal is to give patients and their providers easy access to their entire medical history across all providers they have ever seen.
Reduce Counterfeit Drugs
Bblockchains could help new drug development by streamlining patient results and share them quickly. Also, it could help stop counterfeit drugs.
Better Management
Blockchain could help with medical fraud.This caused more than $30 million in losses in the US, and blockchain could help minimize loses. It could reduce admin costs for billing by stopping the need for complex third party data or security systems, making the process of sharing information much more efficient.
Medical Research
Clinical trials for patients and implementing new treatments include extremely detailed procedures. There is no way to process all this data that is generated and recorded in many disparate systems–doctor’s offices, hospitals, patients, drug companies, labs. Blockchains could help “linking” all this together.
Health Care Security
Finally, Mark Masselli, Margaret Flinter and Dr. Samir Damani realize millions of patient records are invaded or hacked yearly. In the era of Smart Speakers, the Internet of Things, and of course IPads, etc., there are numerous opportunities for security breaches. Blockchain solutions potentially can keep health data secure while connecting to medical devices safely.
Listen to Mark Masselli, Margaret Flinter and Dr. Samir Damani
Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter of the Community Health Center and Dr.Samir Damani of MintHealth discuss how blockchain technology will impact health care.
Connected Health Expert Dr. Joseph Kvedar of Partners Health on Potential Impact of Technology on Caring for Aging Population
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Joseph Kvedar, VP of Connected Health at Partners Health Care in Boston, where they’re developing a new model of technology-enabled care by connecting the clinic to patient’s lives. Dr. Kvedar discusses his recent book, “The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend The Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan” which examines game changing potential for technology to help manage care for an aging population.
Leading Cancer Researcher Dr. Michael Caligiuri On Coming Breakthroughs in Cancer Therapies
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michael Caligiuri, President of the American Association for Cancer Research representing 37 thousand cancer researchers worldwide. Dr. Caligiuri is also Director of the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center and discusses breakthroughs in genomics, immunotherapy and prevention that are powerful weapons in the war on cancer.
Los Angeles Health Director Dr. Mitchell Katz Talks Lessons Learned in LA That Have Improved Population Health
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mitchell Katz, Director of Health for the City of Los Angeles, who is taking over the New York City Health System in January. Dr. Katz helped transform the LA system to provide more robust support for primary care, housing the chronically homeless to improve health outcomes and costs, and embedding mental health services within the public health system.
of Get America Covered, @GetUSCovered, a non-profit entity launched by former employees of HealthCare.gov, to fill a marketing void in this year’s shortened Open Enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Peck discusses the millions of Americans who qualify for subsidies to offset the cost of insurance and the star power he’s assembled to help get the word out.
