Here's another one...it's all about models and this is a reprint from my blog..
United Healthcare Executive to Leave the US and Run the NHS in England-Big Data Math Models and Algorithmic Business Intelligence Formulas On the Move…All About Money…
I know it's not exciting stuff and kind of makes you mad but again look at how the automated process is running with firing doctors in the US who see Medicare Advantage patients...now Ohio and nobody is telling the doctors why or will talk with them and some just recently signed new contracts as recent as August...don't think this sharing love really with the UK...math models, machines and algorithms...how the company functions..
Nothing like sharing the love, right? Simon Stevens has been working at United since 2004 in the US and is originally from the UK. This almost sounds like one of those McKinsey Consulting deal where companies and entities pay a lot of money for a “groomed” CEO. I read in the book review “The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business,” that there is in fact a lot of this going on in business and the author did a couple videos to promote. Of course McKinsey is not alone as you have Bain that kind of does the same thing and some companies pay McKinsey millions so CEOs can have a mentor and friend. Anyway, you just kind of wonder what influences were here with the NHS choosing an executive from United.
He is also a former member of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet. I am guessing I’ll have a few comments here from the UK:) April 1st is the day he takes over the NHS. I’m a little late getting this out as the announcement was made a few days ago. I’m sure all the analytics and software will follow along in time and who knows who else might venture over to the UK. Back in April of 2011 it was announced that United pulled out of the primary care business in the UK, so is this a new model?
UnitedHealth Pulls Out of Primary Care in the UK and Sells Back Practices to Practice PLC- Shifting Gears to Analytics Focusing on GP Referrals And Help NHS With Saving Money
From 2011…..
“Instead, it plans to expand its commissioning support in areas such as data analytics, demand management and medicines management. It is already working with a number of PCTs and GP consortia, including pathfinders in Hounslow who recently signed a deal with the firm to run a major crackdown on GP referrals.”
The article says a “world wide” search was enacted to find Mr. Stevens…so again..a consulting firm here? The NHS will have more than enough analytics coming out their ears if the United model of crunching data and using cost algorithms is followed as it is in the US…here’s one example with Medicare Advantage doctors being fired…with no human contact or explanation…BD
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