How to Practice Retail Medicine
Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, is moving deeper into the primary care and mental health market, opening a new clinic called Walmart Health in Georgia. But for retailers when the inevitable winds of change blow with increased competition, the retailer can be rocked to the core or even collapse. For example, Forbes last week said that the U.S. boasts ten times more square footage of retail than most other countries. That means there are more places to buy more stuff than anywhere else in the world. At the same time, private practitioners are dwindling and they are struggling to compete with emerging sickcare retailers, sicktech high flyers and cable companies who all want a piece of pie.
- 20/09/2019
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Sickcare Digital Transformation Tips
Every industry, including sickcare in the United States, is struggling with how to digitally transform themselves. In the case of sickcare, the transformation is a large part of the the big fix changing sick care to healthcare. Here is why non-sickcare entrepreneurs fail in sickcare.
- 17/09/2019
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Sneaks for Geeks
California passed a law that will allow college athletes to make some money from endorsements and other activities. The bill would allow athletes at California schools to hire agents and be paid for the use of their name, image or likeness. It would stop universities and the NCAA from banning athletes that take the money.
- 17/09/2019
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Why We Need Medical Practice Entrepreneurs
Take a look at the course catalog of the medical schools in the US or the ACGME competencies following residency training and it is unlikely you will find a mandatory course or competency with the learning objective of teaching attendees physician entrepreneurship i.e. how to run a private practice profitably using a viable business model, how to add value as an employed physician intrapreneur, how to be a social entrepreneur or how to get an idea, invention or discovery to patients.
- 16/09/2019
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Should You Really Think Out of the Box?
How many times have you been encouraged to "think out of the box"? It generally means you should challenge the status quo, innovate, disrupt and a multitude of other buzzwords. For example, here are 3 ways to do it.
- 15/09/2019
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