California Law Prevents Price-Gouging of the Uninsured
Hospital bills add up fast Hospital bills add up fastMedical bills are a major source of personal bankruptcy in the US. One reason is that hospitals typically bill uninsured patients wildly inflated…
Service Fanatics: Required Reading for Superior Patient Experience
Editor’s Note: In our continuing series of leadership interviews, Stewart Gandolf, CEO of Healthcare Success talks with Dr. James Merlino who recently assumed a position with Press Ganey as president…
2015 Health IT Predictions and Reflections
Kate Ackerman at iHealthBeat asked me to participate in her annual piece on Health IT past and future,
Aging Gracefully, Part 2: Slowing the Aging Process
Can we slow the aging process? The answer is a definite yes and it all has to do with our lifestyles and behaviors. Here is a quiz. What percent of Americans can…
Healthcare and Health IT in 2015: Seeking Simplicity
Happy New Year to my HealthBlog readers around the world. I’m back in the saddle after a 3-week hiatus for the holidays. Happy New Year to my HealthBlog readers around…
Consolidating 80 Websites: Chris Boyer [PODCAST]
In January of 2013, Chris Boyer accepted a massive challenge; join the North Shore LIJ Health System to create a unified digital presence. The challenge? There were at least 80 websites, known…
The Lessons of Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V Award Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V AwardPeople live and people die every day with cancer. Often people deal with it silently. There are…
How to Get Some Love from Pinterest’s New Smart Feed
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networks! As of June 2014, it about 53 million monthly active users in the U.S. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing…
HealthWorks Collective Connects People for a Better Healthcare Business
As an emergency medicine physician, I work at the gateway to the hospital. For many patients, this is their only gateway to our healthcare system at all. The emergency department…
4 Things to Understand About Youth, Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in the US
Almost 2 million youth – those under the age of 18 – are arrested each year in the US, which is more than 5,000 delinquency cases per day. Of those,…
