Today marks the beginning of the Drive for Better Care, a two-week journey aimed at connecting with and learning from primary care practices, provider groups, and like-minded individuals and organizations across the US healthcare ecosystem who believe that there’s a better way — and future — for healthcare in the United States.
What Are We Driving For?
Patients, especially seniors, struggle to access the care and information they need to avoid expensive interventions that may save their lives but rarely improve them. At the same time, their primary care providers are often spread too thinly with too little time, too little help, and ever-decreasing financial prospects from compensation models around which they designed their clinical operations. One key challenge is that the incentives across healthcare have historically centered on treating the sick instead of keeping people healthy.
As a result, Medicare itself — which provides millions of seniors with access to healthcare — is on track to become insolvent by 2036.
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A Drive for Better Care
Over the next couple weeks, Pearl is driving thousands of miles — from New York City to Philadelphia to Washington to Raleigh to Nashville to Atlanta to Miami.
I have the pleasure and privilege of traveling alongside Pearl’s CEO and co-founder Michael Kopko, Chief of Staff Ciara Walsh, Head of Marketing Madison Klein, and many other Pearl teammates, partners, clients, and friends whom we’ll meet along the way.
We’re capturing stories, voices, and dialogue with people across the US healthcare ecosystem who, like Pearl, believe there’s incredible promise, opportunity, and challenges in aligning provider incentives with patient outcomes and budgetary savings, enabling proactive preventative patient care with technology and data science, and bringing humanism back to healthcare.
Join the Drive for Better Care
Interested in meeting along the Drive for Better Care? We’d love to see you if we can. Reach out at [email protected]. You can also follow and connect with us on LinkedIn or X.
