Peer for Performance – Financial Incentives in Global Health
Global health-ers are increasingly focused on the potential of financial incentives to improve coverage and quality of health services in low- and middle-income countries. Global health-ers are increasingly focused on…
HIPAA Breaches By State
HIPAA Breaches by State Click Image to View Full Size. HIPAA Breaches by State Click Image to View Full Size. The HITECH Act requires full transparency when it comes to…
Antibiotics’ Scary Future
“What people might not know about resistance,” says Eric Utt, a former antibiotic researcher now working in Pfizer’s science public-policy division, “is that the resistant organisms are already there. This…
Face to Face Virtual Clinic Consults with Optum Doctors and Nurses For $45.00
The service is provided via American Well, which has been around for quite a while and their efforts were first used in connection with Blue Cross in Hawaii a couple…
Company Helps Patients Become Smart Buyers
Compass will search for the least expensive hospital or facility for a given procedure, find doctors who best suit a patient’s wants and needs, screen for best outcomes and fewest…
Journalists Decry WH Decision to Pull Physicians’ Database
Throughout one’s professional life as a physician, there are some things that are inevitable: changes to Medicare reimbursement schedules due to factors beyond our control, insurance denials, and the presence…
New CMS Site Aggregates Compare Tools
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched the Quality Care Finder designed to help beneficiaries and their caregivers find better health care options. It is really an aggregation of tools…
Physician Malpractice Data in Chart Form
David Leonhardt writes for the New York Times' Economix blog regularly. Recently, he authored a piece on the incidence of physician malpractice in the U.S. It contained a nifty chart,…
Benefits of Private Cloud Computing: Compliant & Cost-Effective
When it comes to security and compliance, private cloud computing trumps the public cloud. According to a 2011 study by the Aberdeen Group, the private cloud saves a total of 12%…
Social Media Revolution 2011- Video
One of my HIT Seminar students gave me a link to this video and it is worth watching, especially if you believe social media is a passing fad! One of…
