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A Comprehensive Strategy for Primary Care Payment Reform in Medicare

May 9, 2016by bkocher2013 1 Comment

This article first appeared in The Evidence Base. It is co-authored with Farzad Mostashari and Mark McClellan. Strengthening primary care has been a core goal of health care payment reform over […]

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5 must-do’s for succeeding in health tech

December 23, 2015by bkocher2013 1 Comment

This article first appeared in VentureBeat. It is co-authored with Bryan Roberts. We are five years into the greatest transformation of the U.S. healthcare system in the half century since […]

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Entrepreneurs, Healthcare, Healthcare IT, Venture Capital

10 Big Healthcare Predictions for 2016

December 3, 2015by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This article first appeared in Fortune. It is co-authored with Bryan Roberts. In 2015 we learned that several unicorns need more time on the ranch before they get their magical […]

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Entrepreneurs, Healthcare, Healthcare IT

The Future of Healthcare with Bob Kocher, Partner @ Venrock

September 23, 2015by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This interview was first published on The Twenty Minute VC. [audio http://ec.libsyn.com/p/b/3/0/b30ddcaaea0298a5/74_20_VC_074__The_Future_of_Healthcare_with_Bob_Kocher_Partner__Venrock.mp3]

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Entrepreneurs, Healthcare, Healthcare IT, Venture Capital

The Future Of Medicine — Where Investors Are Putting Their Money

May 1, 2015by bkocher2013 2 Comments

This article was first published in Forbes. It is co-authored by Nikhil Sahni, Bob Kocher and David Cutler. The way physicians practice medicine is changing, and investors are betting that […]

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Entrepreneurs, Healthcare, Healthcare IT, Venture Capital

ACA Insider Interviewed: Bob Kocher

March 26, 2015by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This interview was first published on theheart.org on Medscape. [audio http://bi.medscape.com/pi/editorial/studio/audio/2015/core/840966.mp3]

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Does your physician have to prescribe antibiotics for every sore throat?

February 23, 2015by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This article was first published in Fortune.  It is co-authored by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Bob Kocher.  With the right medical malpractice reforms, physicians can reinforce high quality care and […]

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A Courageous First Step

January 26, 2015by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This article was first published in The Health Care Blog.  It is co-authored by Bob Kocher and Farzad Mostashari. Earlier today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced […]

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Healthcare

How 10 leading health systems pay their doctors

December 17, 2014by bkocher2013 1 Comment

This article was first published in Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. It is co-authored by Dhruv Khullar, Robert Kocher, Patrick Conway, and Rahul Rajkumar. Abstract We conducted […]

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Healthcare, Healthcare costs

Why So Many New Tech Companies Are Getting into Health Care

December 8, 2014by bkocher2013 Leave a comment

This article was first published in the Harvard Business Review. Note: In addition to Bob Kocher, this post is authored by Bryan Roberts, also an investor at venture capital firm, […]

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Healthcare, Healthcare IT

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