Blake Madden

Value-based care (VBC) sounds elegant on a slide. Shared savings…shared risk…shared purpose. Payors and providers working in lockstep to achieve the triple…er…quadrupl….uhh…quintuple aim.

Artificial intelligence isn’t just the next big thing in healthcare. It’s already here, in the waiting room, the OR, and the back office. From AI-enabled EHRs to automated scheduling, and predictive billing tools to diagnostic support systems, the technology is touching nearly every part of the care continuum. Even concerns about cost, privacy, and ROI […]

Meet Geode Health: The Team-based Hybrid Mental Health Model of the Future Before we get into the details of how this deal came together, let me introduce you to Geode Health. Starting 4 years ago in the middle of the pandemic by two former DaVita executives, Gaurav Bhattacharyya (CEO) and Mike King (COO), Geode emerged […]

I've been having several conversations behind the scenes with the team at Innovaccer including their CEO Abhinav Shashank and CIO Anil Jain.

For years, Commure has held a bit of a mystique in healthcare circles. Start a conversation about the company and you’ll often hear the same question: “I know about Commure, but what does Commure do, exactly?” In truth, ask Commure leadership themselves and they’ll admit Commure’s past identity has been a bit of an amalgamation. […]

For years, Commure has held a bit of a mystique in healthcare circles. Start a conversation about the company and you'll often hear the same

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been catching up with the team at WellSky, and wanted to share some learnings from them in this post. More and more, I’m seeing a huge theme emerge, especially with the emergence of AI: health systems crave interconnected systems, and the more data you have in one platform, the […]

TL;DR on NeuroFlow: Get in touch with the NeuroFlow team today How to Fix the Behavioral Health Blind Spot You guys spend all this energy optimizing care pathways and obsessing over HEDIS measures, but there’s a massive blind spot undermining your entire population health strategy: behavioral health. Untreated, hidden behavioral health conditions undermine all other […]

Let's talk about transforming healthcare. I had the chance to have some great discussions with Dr. Denise Basow, Chief Digital Officer at Ochsner Health, and Dr.

Here’s a scenario that plays out inside health systems every single day: a new provider is hired, paperwork is signed, start dates are set, and an announcement is circulated that capacity is expanding — welcome news that, in practice, quickly gives way to waiting. Why? Because credentialing and payer enrollment are, by their nature, slow, […]