Care Navigation – The Health Care Blog https://thehealthcareblog.com Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:35:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 Raj Singh, Accolade https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2024/01/29/raj-singh-accolade/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:35:58 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=107796 Continue reading...]]> Earlier this month I caught up with Raj Singh, the CEO of Accolade. The “navigation” company is publicly traded and now offering its own telehealth, primary care & second opinions as well as helping patients access both digital health services and brick & mortar health systems. How is Accolade dealing by both offering primary care and helping patients manage through complex care situations? And why isn’t this available to everyone, yet? Raj told me how it works and what the likely future will be, including work with health plans, and how Accolade is on a path to a $1b in revenue in 5 years.–Matthew Holt

]]> Sach Jain, CEO of Carrum Health talks to Matthew Holt https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2023/07/27/sach-jain-ceo-of-carrum-health-talks-to-matthew-holt/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:20:37 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=107312 Continue reading...]]> The concept of “centers of excellence” has been around for a few decades. Surely sending health plan members and self-insured employers’ employees to the best and most effective providers should improve health outcomes and save payers’ money? Sach Jain is CEO of Carrum which has been working on this problem, partnering with the best providers and aggregating that demand from employers…and putting it all on a state of the art platform. As you might suspect, it’s not as easy as it looks. Carrum raised $45m from Omers Ventures a few weeks back, on top of a decent raise from Tiger Global a couple of years back. So are they getting it right? Sach told Matthew Holt that they are for sure on their way….

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