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Post details: Preview the Revolution Health Website for Yourself
Preview the Revolution Health Website for Yourself
by Tony Chen
Yes, the much-anticipated, much-hyped Revolution Health Website is up for semi-public preview - click here to preview it for yourself. Once you register, you can rate doctors/ hospitals, take health risk assessment surveys online, join community groups (e.g. everything from diabetes to dieting), read/comment on health-related stories from others, populate your health history, learn about conditions/treatments, create a health-related blog, try out a free trial of their health expense manager. In other words, it's worth a look! The public launch is January 16.
Implications for Physicians
As of today, there were 1,114 ratings (compare to RateMDs 69,223 ratings). If this site becomes as popular as some think, physicians would be wise to track/manage ratings. Also, maybe this will be the final straw for physicians - is it time to finally start a blog? It's never been easier, and now you can open one up within the Revolution Health community.
From another perspective, will folks utilize physician services less or more? If they are more aware & educated about their condition (or at least they feel they are), if they have easy access to nurse & personal health coaches online, you have to wonder how this effects the patient/PCP relationship.
Implications for Hospitals
Someone in each hospital will probably be assigned the task of managing these online communities/forums/information sources. I tried comparing my hospital to local hospitals and it was very intuitive and easy. I could compare quality measures based on body system, health topic, condition, or treatment, and conveniently clicked through stats on patient volume, mortality rates, complication rates, severity of patients, length of stay, and OF COURSE, cost of care. We've always commented how hospital comparison sites would one day be like vehix - that day has come! Obviously, the validity, usefulness, and objectivity of the data is still questionable - nonetheless, consumers WILL shape their opinions based on this data.
Also, how will hospital capitalize on a new wave of health awareness? Can Revolution Health align with your hospital's prevention & screening programs?
Implications for Consumers
In my mind, this website provides two things I never had before: (1) one-stop shopping & management of my health; (2) community with others like me. Both of these are the kinds of things that can actually change my lifestyle and behavior. I posted a weight loss story yesterday and already got my first comment - more validation/motivation for me to keep at it. The one-stop shopping has the life-simplication value for me - I can manage my medical history, my medical bills, and learn about conditions from a trusted source. All in all, I see this site as a WebMD + Rate MDs + QuickenMoney + Blogger + googlehealth + Vehix-for-Hospitals-and-Insurance-Plans put together. Pre and Post care, I could see someone going back to Revolution Health.
Implications for Insurance Companies
No brainer - if you're a health insurance company, you better have your insurance information available on Revolution Health's insurance comparison tool. But also watch out - Revolution will offer its own insurance product as well.
I'd be curious to see what they come up with next - skype webcasts on health topics? Health conferences or retreats? Revolution Health magazine? virtual and/or live life/health coaching? could they sell some sort of employee health management package to large employers?
The main question is: the value of the community is proportional to the number of people who join. So will 10,000s join... or millions? If they actually get a critical mass, the sky is the limit. And for $10/month for individual memberships, we are talking about billions of dollars of market potential. I'm guessing that membership revenue will be the smaller revenue stream compared to the advertising.
Google, RateMDs, WebMD, UnitedHealth, Aetna, US Preventive Medicine, weightwatchers.com(?) and primary care physicians... get ready for a good fight.
Comments:
01/08/07 @ 14:22
01/09/07 @ 09:07
01/17/07 @ 14:06 The following was posted to an invited member forum on the new RateMd's. A few minutes later the posting was removed. I assume it met with "CENSORSHIP" criteria. The Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Medical Protective Association, which provides about 71,000 doctors with malpractice insurance, have asked the site to CENSOR postings that do not measure up to their sordid standard of liability murder coverup.
http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/16718.php
04/10/07 @ 16:41 For patients suspected to have conditions such as drug intoxication, metabolic derangements and hypothermia, a longer period of observation and persistence of cessation of brain functions despite correction of these abnormalities are needed in order to declare a brain death, such as the absence of reversible conditions capable of mimicking neurological death. Therefore conditions that mimic brain death must first be excluded prior to clinical evaluation for brain death.
Further, drug intoxication is the most common cause of coma of rapid onset which may mimic brain death, no drug toxicology screen was done. All of the commonly used minor tranquilizers are central nervous system depressants very similar to alcohol and barbiturates in their clinical effects. Prochlorperazine intoxication or poisoning can also cause deep physiologic depression that resembles and can mimic brain death.
Metabolic derangement and endocrine crisis can mimic brain death.
More dramatic is the reversible Guillain–Barré syndrome involving all the peripheral and cranial nerves. The progression which can mimic brain death occurs over a period of days, as in this case.
As a safeguard in determining brain death a number of tests need to be carried out every 6 hours and recorded, the physicians performing this determination must not be part of a transplantation team. In some cases, 48 to 72 hours is required to evaluate brain death and a repeat examination with observation up to 24 hours is sometime needed. The length of time between serial examinations to declare brain death varies marginally from 6 to 72 hours.
Metabolic conditions can totally depress brain function and still be compatible with full recovery if appropriate physiologic support is provided. Therefore, it is critical to rule out toxic and metabolic conditions and to confirm no contributing metabolic derangements in any patient meeting criteria for brain death.
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