Comments on: Free Market Medicine

By: Natalie Hodge MD FAAP

Natalie Hodge MD FAAP — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:45:41 +0000

Thanks Greg for the Mention.

I suppose our open letters to #obama through twitter may be catching an eyeball or two. The Personal Medicine Platform, a web platform that transitions primary care doc’s into high tech high touch housecall practice utilizes four key technologies that reduce physician overhead costs by 80%. High speed wireless, EMR/PHR technologies developed for the mobile phone,( market leader I PHONE) latest social media marketing tools, and the device itself. ( IPHONE ) If a single pediatrician can spend a few years how to run an entire medical practice off an iphone, reducing costs 80%, ( with a group of really smart partners, developers and business process folks) then I should hope that the government should take notice of the cost reductions and consider a formal pilot utilizing our technologies. Government is so bogged down in reform, which looks now to accelerate the rate at which physicians are fleeing their medicare/medicaid contracts, that they are missing some key opportunities here.

Our platform is ready TODAY for a government pilot in which we prove over a 5 year period, BETTER HEALTH of a population.

We ( our country ) is loosing it’s primary care workforce, reform is accelerating the loss, and we must look to the new primary care workforce that these disruptive innovators are creating. More about Personal Medicine here…

http://personalmedicineinternational.com/pmi/

Looking forward to that phone call Mr Obama,

Natalie Hodge MD FAAP
Medical Director Personal Medicine

By: Gregg Masters

Gregg Masters — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:43:06 +0000

Direct medical practice models, aka retainer, concierge, or their boutique practice derivatives are rational responses to an irrational and self sabotaging marketplace.

Yet, absent re-engineering of the health care delivery and financing paradigms, enabling & extending such innovation, they are at best niche plays, offering niche solutions, varying in market relevance and impact based on specialty and geography.

Medical innovators such as Hello Health, HelloHealth(dot)com/, Care Practice, CarePractice(dot)com/, Personal Medicine International, PersonalMedicineInternational(dot)com/, and Qliance, Qliance(dot)com/, are admiral efforts to address this growing market need.

See: http://2healthguru.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/concierge-boutique-or-retainer-based-medicine-is-this-good-for-american-healthcare/

By: Reforming Health Care the Right Way | John Goodman | NCPA

Reforming Health Care the Right Way | John Goodman | NCPA — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:31:15 +0000

[...] In markets where this has been done, low-cost, high-quality, accessible care is the rule. Direct service doctors, for example, communicate with patients by telephone and e-mail, they keep electronic medical [...]

By: Medical Homes vs. Direct Service Docs | John Goodman | NCPA

Medical Homes vs. Direct Service Docs | John Goodman | NCPA — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:08:35 +0000

[...] readers will note the similarities between this description and my description of the free market, direct service doctors. var addthis_pub = ‘ncpaadmin’; var addthis_brand = ‘Blogs by NCPA’;var addthis_language = [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:41:21 +0000

Odds are the New York Times reporter did not know that “direct pay” is what used to be called “concierge medicine.”

By: Tom H.

Tom H. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:33:26 +0000

If Obama really wants to control health care costs, he should encourage every primary care physician in the country to become a “direct pay” physician.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:42:42 +0000

The Times even called it patient oriented care.

By: Joe S.

Joe S. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:39:35 +0000

It’s amazing that this very glowing aticle appeared in the New York Times.