Kyna Fong

Sep 15, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kyna Fong |Andy Bonner |Sara Pastoor |Gregg Coodley

America has a systemic and pernicious problem: health care without primary care. Just a century ago, primary care physicians were the trusted cornerstone of the U.S. health care system, providing the first point of entry into health care, addressing most ailments, and managing patients across a lifespan.

Jun 30, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kyna Fong |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson

Health care technology has a long history of getting it wrong. The electronic health record (EHR) boom of the late 2000s was a remarkable transformation — taking our sector from paper charts to computers in a matter of just a few years. Unfortunately, most of the technology that was so feverishly adopted was developed without clinical input and with a focus on medical reimbursement and policy-compliance checklists over medical care.

Jun 21, 2024 | fiercehealthcare.com | Kyna Fong

There is an old saying that if you do not make time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness. This could be the epitaph on the tombstone of the American healthcare system. We’ve neglected the fundamental thing that would transform American healthcare into an affordable system for better health: primary care. Every single formula for improving health includes keeping patients well, yet the American healthcare industry perversely profits most when we are sick.

Feb 6, 2024 | medcitynews.com | Kyna Fong

Impossibly, it’s already been 25 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks fell in love to the soundtrack of dial-up internet in the movie You’ve Got Mail. At the time, independent bookstores (“Shop Around the Corner” in the film) were under threat of extinction from the rise of the big national chains (“Fox Books” in the film and Barnes & Noble in real life). The movie ends with the bookstore owner getting the guy and closing her business.