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Christopher

Sniff, sniff… getting ready to move to bigger digs

Well, yeah I’m getting a little sentimental – but hey!! The Chondo (aka the change:healthcare condo) holds a lot of memories for me as we embarked on trying to change healthcare for the better for patients and consumers. So now that we are in the 4th of July weekend, come next week I’ll be resurfacing [...]

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Worthwhile convo between Jay Parkinson and Ortho…

I am soooo behind on sharing everything that is going on around me related to healthcare, employers, consumerism, and the proposed government ‘public plan’ for healthcare [I get 2-3 phone calls a week from various system constituents and politicians posing questions, ideas, or plans around healthcare consumerism]. However, what causes me to perk up is [...]

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Dear New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo – save $97 million

Congratulations
Congratulations on your continued progress in gaining commitments from insurance companies to step away from the Ingenix Prevailing Healthcare Charges System (the database most health insurers use to determine “usual and customary rates” for out-of-network reimbursement rates). Most individuals inside and outside of the industry recognize the potential conflict of interest as well as the [...]

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Health Privacy and Silicon Valley…

For the past week, this rather provoking nugget of insight has been floating around from a person (Robert Scoble) who has become a high visible and open person about his doings and daily experiences. What I find most interesting are the comments from various Health-thinkers, bloggers, and Tweeters.
I will be the first to admit that [...]

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New Features in January

Recent Updates on change:healthcare
In an effort to make the system easier to use and more effective, we are continually making changes. Yep, there will be a whole new User-Interface coming, but in the meantime because of User feedback we’ve implemented the following:

COMMUNICATIONS
A huge benefit of using the site is being able to connect with people [...]

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Where’s Waldo… at Wharton

Just passing along that I’ll be speaking at Wharton on Feb 13th about healthcare, entrepreneurship, and a plethora of other things that come to mind (anyone who has seen me speak knows can be both comical and unnerving to a facilitator). Please feel free to join us and participate!

The Healthcare Panel for the Wharton Entrepreneurship [...]

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What is a Cloud Agent?

From Read Write Web, a post AND application that shoud cause a lot of excitement in healthcare and Health2.0 for possibilities in our vertical:
What Twitchboard does is tie together different services on the social web and automates their interactions. Specifically, Twitchboard watches your Twitter stream and notices when you post a URL. It then automatically [...]

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The Last Mile of Healthcare Consumerism

The “Last Mile“
It’s an expression that has been running through my mind for quite some time over the past year. I think that I first heard it used to describe the frustrating gap of getting everyday consumers/households connected to high-speed internet svc with the belief that if only our Parents and the guy that works [...]

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Chris McIntyre is moving from San Fran to Nashvegas to join our team!

We are sooooooooo excited! Chris McIntyre (of Podcast Alley, PodShow.. aka Mevio fame) is joining the change:healthcare team as Director of Product Management and Making Stuff Useful.

If any of you listen to podcasts or work in San Francisco, then you know Chris’ work and understand why we are so freak’n thrilled to add his integrity, [...]

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Helloooooooooooooo Jay. Now hurry up and get down here

[Alert - this post is openly brown-nosing a friend's new venture launch. And I'm glad to do it!]

Super nice and authentic guy Dr. Jay Parkinson, whom i count as a personal friend and all-around good man, is officially opening Hello Health’s first store-front office this evening. I sincerely wish that Nashville wasn’t so far away [...]

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