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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Keep ‘em out of the hospital
UnitedHealth Group and Walgreens say they’re teaming up with the YMCA on a program that will reimburse pharmacists and lifestyle coaches to help insured patients prevent and control diabetes.
Putting biases aside, isn’t this a great idea? What surprises me, no rubs me wrong, is that today’s healthcare providers (hospitals) can’t/won’t/don’t try programs like this (in more earnest). Maybe it’s a good thing on the disruptive innovation path (just sayin’). Kaiser (and select others) gets it right with their goal of keeping people out of the hospital.
