waldo

founder | engineer | fixing healthcare

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@MatrixDebrief @thehealthb0t What is the most well supported and scientific documentary one can watch about this?

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

DPC is growing 20% yoy, we’re up from 2,500 clinics last year to 3,050 today.

There are about 1,100 patients per primary care physician.

Current DPC physicians top out at around 800 patients, but AI can get that to 1,000 without quality of care taking a hit.

We don’t have a physician shortage problem, we have a physician distribution problem.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

It’s essential for doctors but table stakes for patients. The future of healthcare is patient centric and the patients will own their data

Your records, imaging, labs, clinical notes, and wearable data should live in one unified health record that follows you wherever you receive care.

Patients should not need to request their data from doctors. Patients should own their data, and physicians should get access to it.

But aggregation alone isn’t enough. The next step is intelligence: transforming fragmented information into meaningful insight through AI so care becomes proactive, personalized, and preventative rather than reactive.

That’s what we’re building at Zoont.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@DrJesseMorse Direct care is the future.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@avipat_ good to call them out and totally agree, but don’t sweat copycats.
imitation is the highest form of flattery.
while they focus on you, you focus on innovation.
now get back to building and win 💪

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

So many Americans lack access to a doctor that knows them. Many of which have just given up on care until they can no longer ignore it because of the complexities, cost, and shortcomings of the insurance based system.

So going to urgent care and getting 10 minutes with a doctor that has to see 30 other patients that day is the new norm.

I’m working hard every day to expand access to DPC and help transition this country back to a better model.

One that is between a patient and a doctor - no middlemen.

[Dr Danish @operationdanish]

Why Urgent Cares are bad for your health (and healthcare).

A funny thing happened over the last decade. We started building urgent care centers on every corner and told ourselves this meant healthcare had become more accessible.

But if you look a little closer, it starts to feel like the opposite.

Urgent care works the way a convenience store works. It’s there when you need something quickly. It solves the immediate problem. But no one would argue that a convenience store is a substitute for a real food system. It’s what shows up when the real thing isn’t doing its job.

Primary care used to be the place where someone actually knew you. Not just your chart, but your patterns. The way your blood pressure creeps up when you’re stressed. The fact that your “sinus infections” always come back in the winter. The small things that only matter because they repeat.

Urgent care can’t see any of that. It drops into your life for a single moment, makes a decision with incomplete context, and disappears. Then it happens again, somewhere else, with someone new. Over time, you end up with a pile of disconnected decisions instead of a coherent plan.

And that’s the part no one talks about. The system feels faster, but it’s also thinner. More touchpoints, less understanding.

So the spread of urgent care isn’t really progress. It’s what fills the vacuum when primary care stops being available, or stops being enough.

The question isn’t why urgent care is everywhere.

It’s why it had to be.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@noahkaufmanmd @KaufCare Great work Dr Kaufman - always happy to see great doctors thrive with DPC. Hope to add you to the Zoont network one day.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

It could be the Sole Proprietorship of a staffing agency or IT consultancy company. Many such companies use their home address and find foreign workers who need sponsorship.

For example, AT&T pays them $120/hr for a “Sr. DB Analyst” or some other out dated role and they find their cousin or someone and pay them $65/hr with benefits and H1b sponsorship. All of this can be done remotely.

There is a lot of fraud, but I’m not sure this it.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

very cool - though, it’s a bit silly to insist on keeping your DNA private. you literally shed it everywhere you go.

if anyone in your family has ever sequenced their DNA then it’s trivial to map your DNA back to you.

you share over 99% of your DNA with every other human on this planet.

you benefit from having it sequenced far more than those who would seek to illegally obtain it and use it against you.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@ChadR991 @thegavinbarry @CBC @rcmpgrcpolice We can accept the good with the bad. Many things one can point to in the west as well.
If you chose to focus on the bad only you will live with hate in your heart to your fellow human. Love is better.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@ChadR991 @thegavinbarry @CBC @rcmpgrcpolice I've had the pleasure of visiting India and always felt safe and strongly welcomed. They are an agreeable people with strong family values and delicious foods. I've befriended and worked closely with many over the years who highly intelligent and hard working.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@sav3d3mocracy @AllThingsTeddy @WallStreetApes @elonmusk You don't get a right to privacy when voting. You must prove you are legally able to vote.

Same as when flying, driving, and anything else that requires documentation.

It's not at all difficult to get the documentation and would ensure sage elections.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@PurpleBarn147 @scrowder This ensures only Americans vote.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

the coolest thing for me is the 2-3 day turnaround time. It used to take 3-6 months (sometimes even longer) for meaningful rerankings to stabilize after making solid SEO optimizations. This makes experimenting with these various SEO techniques much faster, lower-risk, and way more iterative.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@FACTMATTER2024 @GovTimWalz please provide a source for the 6,323.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@catsmeow9010 how do you get the number 4,000?

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@bava23 @MatrixMysteries @JoinCrowdHealth that's all for primary care. i'm asking about specialists.

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@bava23 @MatrixMysteries @JoinCrowdHealth what happens if you need a specialist or have pre-existing conditions or chronic illnesses?

[waldo @_findingwaldo]

@Matt_Pinner tired