Healthcare focused on 3 key pillars:

  • Doctors can be thought of as local businesses. The drip healthcare network facilitates community partnerships between doctors and non-medical businesses, promoting the idea of local business support.

  • Patients are at the center of the healthcare system and are the best advocates for each other. That’s why drip healthcare facilitates group sessions for surgery patients who are especially vulnerable to the nuances of the healthcare machine.

  • As the healthcare system consolidates, communities are left behind. Drip Healthcare aims to facilitate partnerships between doctors and non-medical businesses, promoting local business support and growth for everyone.

The Healthcare Problem

Doctor devaluation is the most concerning problem with healthcare today.

Defining the Problem

Healthcare price increases combined with doctor devaluation puts patients at risk.

There’s two main drivers of healthcare price increases:

1. Provider megamergers

Prices typically increase following the merger of two health systems, as the combined entity gains market share and greater negotiating power.

2. Physician consolidation and employment

More doctors are now working as employees of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups, which tend to charge higher prices than independent doctors.

What’s the trend?

The current healthcare system favors consolidated entities such as big insurance, large health systems and major industry players.

Doctors are being devalued and losing autonomy while patient care decisions are being made by people that are removed from the doctor-patient relationship.

Solutions

doctor autonomy = patient autonomy

drip healthcare facilitates group sessions for surgery patients because patients are the best advocates for each other. Learn more.

drip healthcare facilitates partnerships between doctors and non-medical businesses, promoting the idea of local business support. Learn more.