Staffing Effects on Weekend Medical Care
Appendectomies are appendectomies, right? As long as you have trained professionals operating in a safe environment, it shouldn’t matter when your patients go under the knife. Except that sometimes, it…
Weekly Dose of Top 5 Healthcare Stories You Might’ve Missed
From our partner site, Healthcare Dive, we wanted to share the top 5 stories that readers were talking about and sharing last week. Last week was a rough week for the…
The Convenience Economy and Healthcare’s Grand Canyon Gap
A Guest Post by Paul Rosen, MDAfter reading Stewart Gandolf’s recent post, Patients Feel Healthcare Is Stuck in the Digital Dark Ages, I felt compelled to piggyback a few thoughts…
Am I Too Old for a Colonoscopy?
Most of us are familiar with the concept of medical guidelines. These are sets of criteria that are supposed to ‘guide’ physicians facing certain medical circumstances. As physicians know, and…
Internet of Things (IoT) + healthcare = what, exactly?
You can't turn around these days without running into a headline about the Internet of Things (IoT). It seems as if everything from your car to your cardiac pacemaker…
Three Key Forces Behind Startups and Investment in Medical Technology
We see three key forces underlying investment trends in medical technology: We see three key forces underlying investment trends in medical technology:The spectrum of competition has been broadened and sometimes isn’t…
Three things hospitals and health systems need to do in 2016 and why
This is the time of year we all start making resolutions and predictions for the new year ahead. One of my fellow executives here at Microsoft asked me to respond to…
Maintaining Hope and Positivity Through Life’s “Ripples”
To me, “ripples” are events that change your life for a period of time until life goes back to “normal” or the “new normal.” Ripples can be surgeries, deaths, life…
The Tide of Change is Coming for Reimbursments
I have been in healthcare my entire career and have seen lots of change in some form or fashion for this industry. But, as many will attest to, BIG change…
