Consumers More Choosy About Cars and Appliances than Health Care
This is from the Altarum Institute Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care: Fewer than one in three consumers reports doing detailed research before selecting a doctor, while almost 60%…
Facebook Adds Suicide Button To Report Potential Harmful Behavior
Ok, you tell me will this be abused? We all know that on the web text is misinterpreted all the time and this is why “smiley” were created to help…
Is Disruption of Mainstream Healthcare the Answer to Our Crisis?
I’ve been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s work. The idea of disruptive innovations really resonates with me and provides a powerful framework for understanding how innovations are adopted (or not)…
Interactive: A Status Report on Health Information Technology in the States
This map above provides a status report on where states stand in distributing Medicaid incentive payments for adoption of health information technology based on the latest data that was…
Using Medicare Data to Rate Physician Quality
Last week, the federal government announced that it would allow Medicare claims data to be used for the purpose of disseminating physician quality information to the public. What's news is…
Is $10,000 a Lot of Money? Not in Health Care.
Mitt Romney is taking a lot of grief for his casual offer to bet Rick Perry $10,000 during the latest Republican Presidential debate. According to the dominant storyline, $10,000 is…
Hospitals Spar with GOP in Latest Hill Fight on Medicare Cuts
Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The Media Posted in CMSCorporateHealthcare Policy & The MediaThe wrangling back and forth in the US legislature concerning the upcoming vote on the payroll tax…
Sharecare Experts on Twitter Chat – Social Media Networking Event
Social Media Networking Event – @BarbaraFicarra Social Media Networking Event – @BarbaraFicarra Join me @BarbaraFicarra and @SharecareNow experts on 12/13 from 11am-1pm EST for a tweet-n-eat family health…
Physician Online Reputations: What Role for Hospitals?
Dr. Bryan Vartabedian has a thoughtful post on 33 charts about online reputation management. He begins: I spoke to a group of academic physicians recently. Afterward I was and asked,…
New Regulation Threatens Agents, HSA Plans
HHS recently issued its final standards on how to rebate money from insurance carriers that fail to reach the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) standards for 2011. This has sparked a…
