Who Knew? Facebook Tops HCAHPS as Measure of Care
You don’t have to look far to find a chorus of concerns about the HCAHPS survey tools. But you need look no further than the enormously popular Facebook for real-people feedback.…
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Strengthening Global Healthcare Systems Through Public-Private Partnerships
Following the recent financial close of the Bilkent Integrated Healthcare Campus in Ankara – Turkey’s third and largest-ever healthcare public-private partnership (PPP) – it seems a good moment to take stock…
Taking Patient Engagement Into the Shark Tank
Shark Tank billionaire Mark Cuban waded into the healthcare conversation last week and lit up the Twitterverse. While the topic – patient engagement and ownership of health data – has been…
Live Streams: A New Way to Market Your Healthcare Facility
Video has become a very popular medium in the world of digital marketing, and you’d be foolish not to use it to your advantage. Video has become a very popular…
Big Data in Healthcare [INFOGRAPHIC]
The era of Big Data in healthcare is in full swing. Healthcare costs, pharmaceutical R&D productivity, precision medicine and preventative medicine are all areas where Big Data will continue to…
Are You Engaged Yet?
New Kind of EngagementYour doctors want you engaged. Your insurance company wants you engaged. The wellness crew at work wants you engaged. (Your mother may want you engaged, but it’s…
Using “Teach Back” to Decrease Patient Readmissions
Marshall McLuhan, the late Canadian philosopher, famously said both “the medium is the message” and “the medium is the massage” meaning that the delivery mechanism of information provides insight into…
How Ebola Spreads, and the Response from Public Health Officials
We may not hear much about it in the daily news cycle, but the Ebola epidemic that has plagued Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia certainly isn't over. According to the…
From the Health Innovator’s Collaborative: Providing Better Care with Less
As someone (most likely French philosopher Blaise Pascal) once said, “I would have written a shorter letter but I didn’t have time.” Stanford Professor Dr. As someone (most likely French…
Patient Engagement: Overused Sound Bite or Transformative Opportunity?
Criteria for Stage 3 of meaningful use of EHRs were released recently and there is lots of controversy, as would have been predicted. One set of recommendations that is raising…
