our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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- Health is a Platform
- Health is Co-Created
- Make Healthcare Awesome
- Don't Call It Quality
- Healthcare Needs Hackers
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PSFK:
A medical center in Maine, USA, has commenced a program aimed to provide medical care to uninsured patients. The Portland Hour Exchange Program is designed as a complement to Medicaid, and the initiative lets patients pay for medical services with ‘time dollars’, which they can earn through completing chores. Instead of paying an expensive fee or contributing to their insurance plan, low-income patients enrolled in the program can do various odd jobs for the practitioner, ranging from mowing the lawns to doing cleaning. Two hours of chores gives uninsured patients access to one visit to a doctor.
