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Nikhil Krishnan
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THE FINAL RUN OF OUR EHR DATA COURSE STARTS NEXT WEEK if you need to get up to speed on what's in EHR data, the traps that happen when you're trying to analyze it, etc. you should take this course @PhilBallentine the instructor has seen the good, the bad, and the...more bad
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Nikhil Krishnan
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come through, it'll be a good time: https://t.co/gI947nbwMx DM me for group discounts
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Nikhil Krishnan
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Since uh...we're talking about tylenol.... One thing that people quick discover when dealing with EHR data is that the same "concept" will have a million different variations within the EHR. The Brand name drug, the active ingredient, different dosages, etc. And this is for one
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70% of my good outfits are for the fall, a season that’s exactly 3 weeks long
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Nikhil Krishnan
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IMO the most fun stage of startup is 10-100 people Below that you feel the existential dread of whether the company will exist and you'll have a job, and above that is where you start feeling the burden of process But in that sweet spot is the zone of still moving fast, feeling
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Nikhil Krishnan
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Tomorrow applications are due for the OOP x Google Cloud Hackathon!!! We already have more than 150 applications from people working all across healthcare (somehow) It's gonna be fun, you'll meet cool people, and you'll play around with some cool tools come through, application
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If you can’t afford to have a full time clinical person on your leadership team, there’s a few different axes to think about. > What is the structure of the engagement? Full time, fractional, or advisor? Hourly rate, monthly retainer, equity, or a combination? > What is the
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Nikhil Krishnan
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every time
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Nikhil Krishnan
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has anyone figured out a way to tell the not online people why they don’t use Sankey diagrams anymore
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Nikhil Krishnan
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THE FINAL RUN OF OUR EHR DATA COURSE STARTS NEXT WEEK if you need to get up to speed on what's in EHR data, the traps that happen when you're trying to analyze it, etc. you should take this course @PhilBallentine the instructor has seen the good, the bad, and the...more bad
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Nikhil Krishnan
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lots of interesting policy stuff towards the end - especially around states now taking it into their own hands to create price controls This seems like the end state for a lot of states that can't figure out how reduce healthcare cost/premiums for its citizens - price controls
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Nikhil Krishnan
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A ton of hospitals that are really large metropolitan hospitals are taking advantage of rural health programs seems to have been growing quite a bit (idk how I feel about this, it's probably keeping doors open for rural areas but also clearly using a system outside of its
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Nikhil Krishnan
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more people went to behavioral health than primary care in 2024 (though I don’t think they include nurse practitioners here though, and it’s all commercial claims) but still interesting how behavioral health visits have become the front door for a lot of people
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Nikhil Krishnan
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the @TrilliantHealth report is always an interesting read, it's like Mary Meeker's internet trends report but for healthcare A few specific slides that stood out to me (full report in the next tweet) The biggest surprise to me was seeing what is causing mortality changes.
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Nikhil Krishnan
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One thing I didn’t expect naming the company “out of pocket” Im now registered in a lot of companies vendor lists are “out of pocket”. An inexplicably high number of employees at these companies now send the bill to us for any out of pocket reimbursement they make
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Nikhil Krishnan
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in case anyone is interested - we soft talked to some LP friends about a different fund idea for digital health companies 1) One round of equity financing at the early stage to help create the product/care model and test it out. Idea being that the the cost of getting to revenue
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Nikhil Krishnan
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if you ever need to get a mortgage and you own a business - the bank basically default assumes you are a drug dealer until proven otherwise In order to qualify I need to tell them things about me my parents don't even know about me, it's like a financial colonoscopy
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Nikhil Krishnan
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come and learn some shit about the payer provider infrastructure https://t.co/KVdHKsHdy7
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Nikhil Krishnan
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New post - we go through why eligibility checks are a hard process We talk about the current pain points and why there are so many downstream issues that happen as a result - The patient can’t tell which doctors they can see without getting a huge bill - The practices send a
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