Ep025: Whitney Bowman-Zatzkin on Reverse Engineering the Medical Clinic

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Do we have healthcare backwards? Many seem to think so, including my next guest, Whitney Bowman-Zatzkin who is the Director of a new movement and initiative called “Flip the Clinic”. Founded by Thomas Goetz and inspired by Sal Khan’s ‘flip the classroom’ initiative, it can be argued that - similar to education - we too need to reverse engineer our health delivery models.

After all, clinic visits today often function as mere qualitative and quantitative data collection visits leaving only seven minutes of precious patient-physician interaction time. With advances in technology, we can flip this experience and optimize the time allowed for discussions around detailed treatment plans. Wouldn’t that ultimately create better outcomes on all triple aim measures? To date, the data certainly seems to support a flipped model.

Join me today while Whitney and I go deep into exploring the ramifications, inspirations, and implications of flipping the clinic. All this and more on today’s episode.

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