Doctors get paid exclusively for office visits. So, they keep happening, because money. But what would happen if the primary means of communicating with your doctor and care team was online and a message could be sent at any time of any day ...
VPC is a new genre of primary care. It’s “mobile-first healthcare.” It is an ongoing relationship you have with the same doctors, who deliver cost-effective care conveniently online via a secure, HIPAA-compliant mobile and web app. VPC’s main mode of communication and problem solving ...
Sherpaa doctors communicate with you and solve your health problems online via “Episodes of Care” for as long as it takes to solve your problem and use office visits as a tool of last resort. Traditional doctors only get paid for office visits, so ...
Yesterday, I posted a chart detailing the characteristics of new and traditional primary care models. Today, I’m going to try to identify who would be a best fit for each model. The following is a primer on how primary care works, how people spend on ...
Let’s take a group of 1,000 and analyze how they use healthcare for a year. First, we’ll look at their traditional usage leveraging PCP office visits, specialist visits, urgent care centers, and ERs. Then, we’ll look at how they use healthcare with Virtual ...
After completing their medical school and residency training in some of the most prestigious academic medical centers in America, all of our doctors have spent over 10 years practicing in traditional primary care practices. They are well-trained and experienced. Just as importantly, they ...
Yesterday, I wrote about how Uber is uber because they gave riders one simple place to remove all the traditional hassles of summoning a taxi. From there, they were able to optimize every single one of their internal processes via reams of data, ...
0Sherpaa members create an Episode of Care whenever they need medical or mental health care. They simply choose “I have a mental health question” and tell us, in their own words about their situation. All Sherpaa members ...
0This morning, Sherpaa made it an affordable no-brainer for all employers to deploy Virtual Primary Care and invest strategically over time in a primary care strategy that reduces traditional fee-for-service claims. Employers can now share the ...