Doctors and Nurses: Doctors need to Order Less, Listen More
Doctors and Nurses form a TEAM in healthcare. Often that team is quite dysfunctional because of a basic cross wiring in the command and control of the team. A…
Book Review: The Future of Health-Care Delivery by Stephen Schimpff
The Future of Health-Care Delivery by Stephen Schimpff The Future of Health-Care Delivery by Stephen Schimpff EXCLUSIVE POST - Stephen Schimpff's just-released The Future of Health-Care Delivery is an excellent book…
HIMSS Moving Forward
EXCLUSIVE POST - HIMSS as an organization continues to be a large tent which covers multiple stakeholders. From providers to vendors to payers, educators to startups to integrators, CMIOs to…
Linking ICD-10 and the Future of HCIT
With only 18 months left until the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ICD-10 implementation deadline, pressure to comply is mounting for a vast array of healthcare constituents. ICD-10,…
Following the Prevention Fund Cut Trail…
In follow-up to last week’s approval of the Payroll Tax Bill by the House and Senate, at the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) we feel it’s important to keep you…
Physician-Led Advocacy Group Strives for Diversity among Its Profession
Posted in DiversionsKnowledge & Medicine Posted in DiversionsKnowledge & MedicineA rather excellent initiative is afoot in the state of Mississippi. The unsurprising fact of life for many of that state’s…
Class Helps People Help Elders
From the LA Times... Valencia's College of the Canyons in Ca. has designed a course to train students to help the elderly cope with chronic medical conditions and live more…
Raise Medicare Age? That’s Cost Shifting, Not Cost Saving
Mitt “Two Cadillacs” Romney in his Detroit speech on Friday said he’d like to raise the age on Medicare eligibility to 67 to save the taxpayers money. A Congressional Budget…
The Status of Health Insurance Exchanges
With less than two years before state-based health insurance exchanges are to be operational, most state legislators and health policy experts still cannot come to an agreement on how to…
