Ramesh Subramani - Health On Demand: Insider Tips to Prevent Illness and Optimize Your Care in the Digital Age of Medicine

HEALTH ON DEMAND

Praise for

HEALTH ON DEMAND

An empowering and compelling book that should be read by everyone. It is simply that good.

David M. Lawrence MD, former Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, Inc.

Healthcare is personal. Dr. Subramani has created a powerful and engaging platform to help you identify, rectify and achieve your version of health success.

Paul Spiegelman
New York Times best-selling author of Patients Come Second

Dr. Subramani offers insight into how medicine and technology will transform how healthcare is delivered and consumed. He is an advocate for patients truly becoming co-pilots in their care. A better and smarter patient will revolutionize the future of medicine.

Franklin Cockerill MD
CEO, Analyte Health; Past CEO,

Mayo Medical Laboratories and Emeritus Professor and Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic

An excellent resource for patients, doctors and everyone who wants practical solutions to improve our healthcare system. This book is highly accessible, based on solid research that can and will make a difference. If you are interested in changing your healthcare, then read this book.

Amy Duross
Executive Director, GE Ventures, Incubations

Health On Demand is a well-researched, clearly organized, comprehensive road map to a better you the smart health consumer.

David Davidovic Founder PathForward; former VP and Global Head, Commercial Services Roche & Genentech

Dr. Subramani outlines the digital disruption that must be led by consumer revolution! Smart patients will push the many stakeholders to change current practices, behaviors and incentivesa change that will be needed to transform our health system.

Ramin Bastani
CEO, Healthvana

This is one book that has a complete and clear path about the future of our nations healthcare. It should be read by patients, doctors, insurers, digital innovatorsbasically anyone looking to better their health, lower costs and become part of a digital health revolution.

Sridhar Murthy
Digital Health Investor, Past CEO, Analyte Health

Whether you want to learn more about how innovative companies are changing how we consume health or youre trying to find faster, smarter, better, cheaper ways to access healthcare, Health On Demand is your roadmap.

Daniel Burrus
New York Times best-selling author of Flash Foresight

Dr. Subramanis passion and enthusiasm for all the possibilities occurring in the healthcare space is riveting.

Henry Albrecht
CEO and Founder, Limeade

If you are serious about your health, whether you are using an app or device to track your health and wellness success, the contents of this book will practically guarantee your ability to get faster, better, smarter and cheaper healthcare.

Michael Heinrich
CEO, Oh My Green

Insider Tips to Prevent Illness and Optimize Your Care in the Digital Age of Medicine

Ramesh Subramani MD, MBA, MPH

New York

HEALTH ON DEMAND

Insider Tips to Prevent Illness and Optimize Your Care in the Digital Age of Medicine

2016 Ramesh Subramani MD, MBA, MPH

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Dedication

To you and to all patientsplease start the revolution!

Thank You!

To my family, friends, colleagues, and my beautiful wife Sanjivini, for their tireless support of this book

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

We are at a grand inflection in the evolution of healthcare delivery and individual engagement. I am mainly an active observer, but I observe from the perch of having been in the middle of medical education and practice, state and national policy, innovation and technologyas a transplant surgeon, former US Senator, and healthcare entrepreneur.

When I speak with healthcare leaders, fundamental challenges continue to come to light. The most compelling and persistent of these is the pressing need to engage patients in their own care. Value-based care may have started as a buzzword, but it is becoming our future.

Containing healthcare costs has appropriately become the leading edge of healthcare reform, but quality must remain central to care. The focus on quality cannot be the personal crusade of the provider alone; individuals and patients, I truly believe, will soon drive the market to the cost-quality balance.

Health On Demand is a step in that direction. This book empowers and engages patient-consumers by sharing practical and accessible tools for taking control of their own health. It explains the necessity and value of knowing your own health options and introduces myriad new tools to do so. It is both a road map and a call to actionfor the patient-consumer and for healthcare providers.

The Affordable Care Act hopes to entice young, tech-savvy health consumers to enter the marketplace. With the high deductibles inherent in the ACA, this next generation of patients will face a different healthcare landscape than their parents navigated. They need a different solution: a partnership.

Partnership means transparencynot just in some aspects, but in everything: quality, cost, and outcomes. Legislation alone will never be enough to achieve that type of transparency. The power to demand true transparency is in the hands of the newly empowered patient and comes from taking charge of ones own healthcare and expecting excellence from the system.

How do we do that? We prioritize our own healthcare education. We avail ourselves of the most progressive technological options. We acknowledge that the status quo is not acceptable and we continue to demand excellence knowing the path forward is paved with change. We invest in building a system that will serve not just ourselves, but our childrens and our nations future.

But while change takes work, Dr. Subramani understands that navigating the healthcare system can be daunting. Though we all have some responsibility, none of us carries the full responsibility.