New business model during the pandemic - home care services

Innovation in health care in many ways

Yesterday I had e consult with a physician.  It is pricey:   it cost me P1,500.00 But  I had no choice because that is the only way I can get an MD consultation without commuting or being questioned at check point or having a risk of infection

At the TV, I watched an AIDE feature which is about home caare.

Last Sunday, I had discussion with a former head of an ambulant center in nearby town,   She was formerly the head of operations but separated due to management differences and to focus on her advocacy -  home care.   

This will be run by her, with her as the coordinating and marketing center and all ready she has many customers.   The basic resources:   nursing services, md, diagnostics are independent contractors and all work together to serve patients at home who cant go to the hospital

What do these developments mean?

1.  The bricks and mortars health care hospital model is being challenged.  You do not need a P300 m 50 bed capacity hospital to serve the health care of the public especially if the mobility and access is limited.   You need enterprising individuals to put the resources together

The investment you will be needing are:   website for scheduling and listng of MDs and services (see CSMC e consult)   may be costing P1 to 5M, some vehicles, but mostly manpower.   

Heart centers, lung centers, surgicenters and ob gyne clinics will remain.   But the bulk of health care:  diagnostics, consultation can be handled by this home care services.   

This calls for serious rethinking among our health care businessmen and execs

Joining the ACE group if putting up hospital

Innovation in health care in many ways

Ateneo Professional School
Makati City

The field trip to Pateros Medical Center of the ACE group was a revelation.  There are now 20 in the Philippines.  They cover the entire Philippines.  They boast of their superiority in numbers, economies of scale, connection at Land Bank and huge credit lines (in billions) generous terms, wealth of experience in running a hospital, and more.

There are at least 6 med entrep students who run their own hospital.  One thinks of putting up a hospital soon.   For northern Luzon where there is a little ACE presence, I suggest that you are better off to make things easier for you, to join the ACE group or follow their business model.   The three who are currently running their own hospital may wish to level up and benchmark what they saw. The minimum that Dra Vi and Dra Jane can do is to link them to LBP and their suppliers of reagents and other top of the line equipment.

This way, we can really help make superior health care become accessible to everyone in remote areas of the Philippines.

The next step is to look at the prepaid health card services tied up with ACE (From where I am coming from, that is the next opportunity)

Almost fanatical adherence to the ACE vision and core values

Innovation in health care in many ways

Rizal  Philippines
August 7, 2016

From the stories of Dra Jane, I and I have not seen the man on top, Dr Ace himself (the boyish looking Oxford Cardio Thoracic surgeon who is the inspiration behind the Pateros hospital) I could sense that the driver the entrepreneur, the visionary behind the hospital is right in our class room amongst us.  That Dra Jane encouraged Dr ACE to be the head so that the group can save money is entrepreneurial leadership at its best.  To have the idea that instead of leasing the lot they all contributed for to build a hospital GO FOR THE HOSPITAL BUILDING TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE  and entrepreneurial gumption.  Between taking on debt of P400 million and raising P200 million in equity is quantum leap an act of faith.  That is why she is the medical director.  She has to make the whole thing work, deliver value to the patients and above all to Land Bank and hundreds of other investors   MD and non MD

I could guess that after observing that instead of posting CLAYGO (clean as you go) Dr. Jane had the ACE (Always Clean after Eating) means that probably the ACE in the vision that means Altruism, Compassion and Ethics could have come from the medical director and not the Oxford guy.

Kudos, Bravo Zulu. Keep this up