Relentless Health Value

Lately, several of the Relentless Health Value episodes have focused on digital health companies and their disruptive potential on referral flows of traditional provider organizations. We also talked about other goings-on with the potential to encroach on hospital systems and independent docs alike. For example, we’ve got Walmart getting, in a big way, into the health clinic business. We’ve got VillageMD and Walgreens teaming up. We’ve got mergers in the on-site clinic space. There’s just a lot of action. But let’s talk about what Dan O’Neill called “physician entrepreneurship” in EP287. Dan said that now is a fantastic time for entrepreneurial physicians to reinvent the practice model. This is true because many, including Dr. Matt Anderson in EP292, have said that it’s not an entirely safe bet if you’re a doc right now to hope that all the practice changes initiated by COVID (like telehealth, etc) go away like a bad hangover the second this pandemic gets stuffed back into Pandora’s box.   So, there’s risk mi