Physician and social entrepreneur. Creating disruptive technology to better health for vulnerable populations. Specializes in applying Lean Startup Thinking and Design Thinking to discovering social and commercial value of innovations in healthcare.
Andrey blog's at www.disrupthealthcare.org. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Care at Hand, Inc (www.careathand.com). He practices as a pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
We agree with Hughes et al that the State Innovation Model initiative (SIM) provides a much-needed catalyst for health system transformation.[1] Among the innovative strategies employed by states participating in SIM, integration of home and community based services (HCBS) plays an essential role in keeping the health system functioning given that long-term supports and services […]
I’ve worked in digital health for a while (I’m the co-founder of digital health start-up Care at Hand and a physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center), so I was as surprised as you may be when I discovered a tough truth: despite over $5 billion in investments in digital health in 2014, there appears […]
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Amidst the loud Apple-IBM and Google-Novartis partnership announcements, a much quieter announcement was made which carries equally large implications for the healthcare industry. On July 22, President Obama signed the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) into law. The WIOA is a bipartisan bill that passed both the Senate and House with large majorities and includes moving three […]
There is an emerging transition from fee-for-service to capitated and episode based reimbursement models. With the fastest growing cost driver in healthcare being post-acute care, there is a lot of attention being paid to how to mitigate the increasing spending. One approach to curb the growing cost of post-acute care is to improve interoperability among […]
Digital health startups secured $1.4 billion in investment in 2012 with healthcare administration, personal-health, and consumer-engagement emerging as some of the leading investment categories.[1] Despite the growing interest in healthcare, early-stage investors’ reluctance to invest in unfamiliar industries[2] has limited funding for more nascent digital health opportunities like managed long-term supports and services (MLTSS).[3] Managed […]