At a time when telemedicine and telehealth are poised for rapid expansion, many state medical boards are doubling down on what appears to be their true purpose: enacting and enforcing anti-competitive measures to protect those already licensed in the jurisdiction.
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At a time when telemedicine and telehealth are poised for rapid expansion, many state medical boards are doubling down on what appears to be their true purpose: enacting and enforcing anti-competitive measures to protect those already licensed in the jurisdiction.
At a time when telemedicine and telehealth are poised for rapid expansion, many state medical boards are doubling down on what appears to be their true purpose: enacting and enforcing anti-competitive measures to protect those already licensed in the jurisdiction. Medical boards, like all professional licensing boards, are bureaucratic barriers to open competition. Sure, they […]
The large pharmacy chains are opening walk-in clinics in their stores, staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The huge number of independent pharmacies can follow the same route. For most physicians this means more competition. But for enterprising physicians and independent pharmacists, the opportunity to do deals abounds.
Walgreens. On my last count, there were 400 Walgreens Healthcare Clinics located in their stores. And, they’ve recently announced an expansion of their telehealth platform.
Could you smell it in Cleveland, Carson City or Cape Cod? The stench filled the air in Paris, as taxi drivers burned tires to protest Uber. Having paid hundreds of thousands of Euros for their taxi permits, the drivers have been disrupted and they don’t like it. Will hospital administrators in Cleveland, Carson City and […]
Kodak chose to ignore the threat of digital photography. What threat is your medical group ignoring?
From the 1950’s through the 1990’s success was about doing what was always done – the actual delivery of care. So the better groups delivered better care. If a group was “broken” the result was that its level of care dipped. The fix was to return it to the standard of working well, that is, […]
Kodak chose to ignore the threat of digital photography. What threat is your medical group ignoring?
I remember, as a kid, walking around Disneyland, noticing yellow “no parking” size signs labeled Kodak Moment. They indicated a great vantage point for taking a photo. Yet today Kodak is in bankruptcy, its core film business gutted by the digital camera.
