From the category archives:

Behind the Curtain

Page should be flogged

Thank goodness that Page knows his place! (just kidding). During the life of a start-up company, the ability of a team to keep a sense of humor makes the day go by quicker. We’ve got a great team.
During our meeting today, Page serenely said, “I should be flogged!”

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Medical Bills Suck

Ran across this blog entitled medical bills suck. Have to say we empathized with their situation. This is a young couple with a new baby and lacking insurance. That’s a tough spot. They are getting hit with medical bills for the birth of their child now, and the mom despairs about not being able to [...]

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NY Trip – Organized Wisdom and change:healthcare in NY

Christopher and I are in NY. Met with Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes of Organized Wisdom last night. Great guys – really great. And brilliant. Got a chance to see what they are doing and where they are headed. They are really onto something, and we are excited that we will be working with them [...]

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Inside humor about WY trip

Internal emails were going around post-Wyoming and also our updated bios for media (yeach… too stuffy for my tastes but i’ve been told to get used to it). Anyway, in the back-and-forth emails, Robert added this “inside joke” gem regarding Matt’s official title. See if you can guess what happened in WY with Matt and [...]

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change:healthcare bumper stickers are in!

No matter your candidate or your party, let them know you’re passionate about reforming healthcare!
The new change:healthcare bumper stickers are in!
Shoot me an e-mail at rhendrick [@ symbol] changehealthcare [dot] com with you mailing address, and we will get one to you in time for the remainder of the primaries (unless of course, they move [...]

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Consumer empowerment that is NOT tied to a Payor

want a hint of what’s coming? I can honestly say that this has been in development for the past 5 months and hopefully the team will let me begin to share some of the cool things that we are preparing to release.
Ok, twist my arm a little
HERE… sadly, that “thing” under the crowd [...]

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Oh, you’ll know when you see it…quality care that is.

As we’re working on the patient experience (with their providers) rating system, we got into an interesting “verbal brawl” of what quality means. No clear answer as everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE has differing opinions as to how quality is defined or what is meaningful to them.
So to set the stage internally, here are [...]

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Health Graph for Consumers

Let it be known that I am officially “coining” the term Health Graph. Why?  Heck, I don’t know but I figured that I better claim it before Mark Zuckerberg or some other Web2.0 company started to mention it.
Actually, the notion of the term came up today as we met with a large company who we [...]

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35 Healthcare questions every Health2.0 company should ask

So as we ratchet down, focus on, and refine our platform — Robert and team threw these questions out that may seem obvious on the surface but actually require some thought. I figured that I’d pass them along. It was interesting to see how I answered some questions vs. others on the team. I’d like [...]

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