Medical Malpractice Reform Losing Physician Support
With regard to physicians’ support for medical malpractice reform, the times they are a changin'. With regard to physicians’ support for medical malpractice reform, the times they are a changin'.…
Social Media and Participatory Medicine:the ePatient Movement
A key component of cost containment in medicine and healthcare is wellness and compliance with treatments using educational courses, advocacy in groups of specific illness and support organizations to…
The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here
America's Health Insurance Plans commissioned consulting firm Oliver Wyman to make some predictions about what will happen to health insurance once the Affordable Care Act is implemented. According to the…
What is Meaningful Use?
The purpose of the Healthcare IT incentive program is not static adoption of EHRs. The program has been devised in a manner that incentivizes only the “meaningful use” of your…
How Healthcare Reform Will Change Healthcare Communication Forever
As an agency that works primarily with healthcare clients, I think we can say with some authority, healthcare communications has always been about increasing the bottom line. That's not to…
Project Diabetes 11.11.11 Ideas
Over at Diabetes 11.11.11, I have started to list some ideas for Project Diabetes 11.11.11. Please go check them out, as there is only 6 days to GO!!! Feel free…
Hospital Social Media Success: Even More Attention Than Expected
Hi Christina, If you don’t mind, I’d like to share a real success story we recently experienced. I continue to enjoy your blog and the insights on Twitter. Keep…
Ranking Health Aid Quality: Worthwhile or Waste?
This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran. This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran. Two months ago, we set out to create an index that measures the quality…
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: A Surgeon Makes the Case (podcast)
Open surgery is still the most common way to perform a hysterectomy, even though minimally invasive approaches could be used in most cases. In this podcast, Dr. Robert Darrow of…
California Hospital Association Sues HHS
Governor Brown signed a new law that is retro-active to June 1st, and the federal government approved, so does this mean hospitals and doctors will have to pay back payments…
