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Ep 10: Dr. Bob Kocher on the Future of Health Systems and Increasing Healthcare Productivity

Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil Krishnan

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How Do You Know When You're Going to Do These Annual Predictions?

A lot of people are leaving medicine because of how burnt out they are and how many weird secondary effects are from COVID. So we're going to have to become more productive right like we don't have a choice because we have just less labor. The inflation reduction act has for the first time ever the federal government negotiating prices for 10 drugs, which is super cool. I do think that we have the ability to use the current drugs we have so much more effectively that a lot of us can be saved without new drugs by just delivering care better. Another one we got terribly wrong this year was at the digital health IPOs although even in them kind of sucked last year there's been none as

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