How to Recover from a HIPAA Breach
If you find yourself in the midst of a HIPAA breach, your first instinct might be to panic, but you need not. While a security breach of any kind is…
Taxing Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?
Well, we’ve come to the end. This is the final post in the multi-part series on the Burr-Hatch-Upton proposal known as the Patient CARE Act. This one is all about…
Pharma Is from Mars, Patients Are from Venus
As the pharmaceutical industry faces increasing pressure to be more patient-centric, ensuring sufficient focus on the ultimate end consumer for medicines is starting to permeate into every aspect of its…
5 Ways Hospitals Can Win the Search Engine Marketing Game
Just about every marketer knows that your visibility on search engine queries is the single most important factor in determining how easy it is for a searcher to find your…
Reducing Avoidable Readmissions: Care Transitions
This is the second in our series, recapping the lessons learned from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Reducing Avoidable Readmissions course.Care transitions are seen as key to improving readmission rates,…
Curing Medicare: A Book Review
This might seem like a curious title for a blog post but it reflects a very serious national need. This might seem like a curious title for a blog post…
Clinical Informatics: It’s Not Just Big Data
When you first think of informatics, what comes to mind? Is it machines running statistical analysis on massive data set? Scientists trying to figure out what all this data means?…
3 Surprising Hospital Leadership Trends
Over the last two decades there have been dramatic shifts in the composition of the country’s demographics. There have not, however, been significant advancements in the representation of minority leadership…
Engagement: Finding the Healthy Mix
Is it better to connect online, or face to face?This modern question of how to engage has become a hot topic in fields ranging from business to education. But major…
Seeing Through the Patient CARE Act: Why Transparency Won’t Fix Our System
The Burr-Hatch-Upton proposal known as the Patient CARE Act would like us to move towards a system of transparency in health care that will “inform and empower patients.” The longstanding…
