Dr. Eric Bricker | AHealthcareZ

Reconstructing Healthcare: Innovative Solutions For Employers To Lower Their Healthcare Costs

Topics:

• Healthcare Finance
• Healthcare Literacy
• Misaligned Incentives
• Corruption
• Supplier Induced Demand
• Forced Competition
• Consumer Education
• Change Management
• Steerage

In this episode, Michael introduces you to Dr. Eric Bricker, an internal medicine physician, and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Join us as we learn more about Dr. Bricker’s new venture, AHealthcareZ, a healthcare finance video blog designed to educate on all things healthcare and create a more educated payor community.

Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode:

• Dr. Bricker’s clinical, business and leadership experience and why he founded AHealthcareZ
• How Dr. Bricker identified an opportunity to educate healthcare stakeholders and consumers about healthcare fundamentals
• Why Dr. Bricker chose video as the medium to provide education on an array of topics to create a healthcare knowledge foundation for his audience
• The types of topics that Dr. Bricker covers in his video blog
• How AHealthcareZ enables individuals to build their knowledge base by providing videos in chronological order
• Examples of how the video blog topics are valuable to the provider community
• How the video blog uncovers many of the dysfunctional elements in our healthcare system
• The importance of aligned incentives to provide quality and cost efficiency to the end consumer
• The challenge in getting business leaders to embrace change in approaches to healthcare purchasing
• Dr. Bricker’s opinion on our ability to solve our healthcare crisis
• Why strategies and solutions must be customized for each employer to challenge the status quo
• What Dr. Bricker would do if he was designing a healthcare solution from scratch
• Challenges and opportunities that Haven Healthcare may face as they seek to transform healthcare
• The ideal role technology can play in disrupting healthcare and what the metric for success looks like
• Potential challenges with a single-payer health system
• What is next for Dr. Eric Bricker?
• To learn more, visit the video blog at https://www.ahealthcarez.com