Healthcare

Dear Reader,

Nice to meet you and thanks for venturing to my ~cool~ new website. This is a novel adventure for me — someone who is traditionally averse to self-publication – so bear with me as I treat this as a safe space in which I test out some ideas and try to give myself permission to screw up. I think it’s called “personal growth” or something…

Anyways, I begin this website so that I, too, can yell into the void about how messed up our healthcare system is and pontificate on the wild overhaul required to salvage the whole twisted mess….

Actually, just kidding — I want to take a different approach here. Healthcare is often discussed in reference to such morbid topics – death, disease, new drugs with million-dollar price tags, pediatric cancer statistics, and Obamacare premium subsidies. 

I feel there’s a brighter, inspirational side of medicine that I want to focus on here. I want more discussions on such topics as brainstorming possible FDA fast track pathways for novel biomarker identification tools and ending the transplant registry with 3D-printed organs and less focus on the ballooning costs of chronic care delivery and CMS fee schedules.

In essence, I want to raise innovative ideas and products in healthcare, highlight how they can help improve equitability and accessibility of care, and discuss the regulatory and practical concerns to consider along the way. My goal is to create a dialogue around these concepts in an effort to encourage folks to discuss these ideas within your communities and, ultimately, incorporate the better ideas into practice. 

Over the next several weeks and months, I will be publishing more content and sample work. I may even throw in some memes and other fun distractions but I’ll feel that one out. I have a handful of topics I plan to discuss, including the 5 A’s of Access in Healthcare (hint: name) and the importance of broadband internet access in a post-COVID healthcare world. But, if there are other ideas or topics you’d like to see my take on or start a discussion about, please let me know.

So, whether you’re a healthcare provider looking for new infection control policy suggestions or you’re an average citizen hoping to understand the pros and cons of telemedicine legislation adoption to inform your next primary candidate selection, I hope that we can find creative ways to engage with one each other in a way that benefits how you give and receive healthcare in your community. 

To Future Health,

Matthew