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Nothing Revolutionary

April 14, 2007 • Health Care News • Larry Benz

Let’s say you are a bored ex-CEO of America Online and you decide to poor  100 Million plus of your own money into the health care industry.  You believe that consumer directed health care is the wave of the future. What do you get? Revolution Health.  You get to rate and compare your health care providers (don’t look too hard for PT), self-diagnose and treat, track your health, shop till you drop, and begin an online medical record.  Or, you could have saved the 100 Million dollars and surfed the net for tons of sources that already do this.

I am not impressed at all with this revolutionary approach.  I am a big believer in customer centric focus and consumerism but don’t believe you will be too overwhelmed with the way this site approaches it.

Best example-LBP.  Under the title, What Can Physical Therapy Do For Your Back Pain?  It sets us back about 20 years-not quite to reconstruction aids but close.

Thoughts?

Larry

Larry Benz

Dr. Larry Benz, DPT, OCS, MBA, MAPP, is the Executive Chairman of Confluent Health. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in private practice physical therapy and occupational medicine. Dr. Benz’s current areas of interest include conducting research and integrating empathy, compassion, and positive psychology interventions within physical therapy. He released a book on September...

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