Dr. Eric Bricker | AHealthcareZ
Topics:
- Healthcare Finance
- Healthcare Literacy
- Misaligned Incentives
- Corruption
- Supplier Induced Demand
- Forced Competition
- Consumer Education
- Change Management
- Steerage
In this episode, Michael introduces you to Dr. Eric Bricker, an internal medicine physician, and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Join us as we learn more about Dr. Bricker’s new venture, AHealthcareZ, a healthcare finance video blog designed to educate on all things healthcare and create a more educated payor community.
Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode:
- Dr. Bricker’s clinical, business and leadership experience and why he founded AHealthcareZ
- How Dr. Bricker identified an opportunity to educate healthcare stakeholders and consumers about healthcare fundamentals
- Why Dr. Bricker chose video as the medium to provide education on an array of topics to create a healthcare knowledge foundation for his audience
- The types of topics that Dr. Bricker covers in his video blog
- How AHealthcareZ enables individuals to build their knowledge base by providing videos in chronological order
- Examples of how the video blog topics are valuable to the provider community
- How the video blog uncovers many of the dysfunctional elements in our healthcare system
- The importance of aligned incentives to provide quality and cost efficiency to the end consumer
- The challenge in getting business leaders to embrace change in approaches to healthcare purchasing
- Dr. Bricker’s opinion on our ability to solve our healthcare crisis
- Why strategies and solutions must be customized for each employer to challenge the status quo
- What Dr. Bricker would do if he was designing a healthcare solution from scratch
- Challenges and opportunities that Haven Healthcare may face as they seek to transform healthcare
- The ideal role technology can play in disrupting healthcare and what the metric for success looks like
- Potential challenges with a single-payer health system
- What is next for Dr. Eric Bricker?
- To learn more, visit the video blog at https://www.ahealthcarez.com
About the Host, Michael Menerey
Michael Menerey is a Senior Vice President and Benefits Consultant with one of the largest Employee Benefits Brokerage & Consulting firms in the country. He is a partner in the Employee Benefits Practice and works in the Los Angeles office.