How A Low Literate Adult Experiences the Healthcare System
October is Health Literacy Month October is Health Literacy Month"Health literacy is the currency of success for everything we do in health, wellness and prevention."- 17th U.S. Surgeon General, Richard…
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
My first COO role was at a large acute psychiatric hospital and it taught me a great deal about suicide and the people who attempt or complete this self destructive…
Some Further Disruptive Changes in HealthCare Delivery
Technology to lower costs rather than accelerate them. Smart phones to increase physician and other providers’ productivity. Fewer primary care physicians but more involvement by nurse practioneers and others. And…
Health Reform and the Re-Emergence of IT Outsourcing Services
Changes in healthcare are having massive ramifications on healthcare IT, including work related to the updates of ICD-9 to ICD-10 and HIPAA 4010 to 5010 data sets and a range…
Online Communities a Prevailing Theme at Medicine 2.0 Boston – A Surprise?
The room was packed. I had been fretting about giving this talk since my abstract was accepted back in March. How I was going to deliver something meaningful in 10…
Changing Behavior to Conquer Obesity
According to a recent Bipartisan Policy Center report, Lots to Lose: How America’s Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens our Economic Future, two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. In addition,…
Build It Bigger? Maybe Not: Addressing Obesity in the US today
This week I came upon an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the challenges of producing a new “plus size MRI scanner“. Companies that manufacture imaging equipment such as MRI and…
Kaiser Permanente Colorado Drastically Improves Hypertension Control Among Its Members
The Sacramento Bee reports that Kaiser Permanente Colorado received recognition from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for strides made in controlling hypertension among its members. Kaiser Permanente Colorado improved…
Top UK Mental Health Issues in 2012
The UK-based Mind: For Better Mental Health is a mental health charity whose mission is to be there “to make sure anyone with a mental health problem has somewhere to turn for…
Getting Engaged
We hear inspiring things about patient engagement. The very concept has a hearty, spirited, “do-right” sound to it.I spent many years in human resources. I remember the conversations we…
