Doctor Discipline: Resources for Judging Quality in Health Care
Summary: When we display prices for medical treatments, inevitably the question of quality comes up. Since price and quality are both hidden from public view in health care, we are…
Are Millennials Born That Way? Survey on ePatients
Most of the people I meet in my voyages 'round healthcare system transformation, grassroots edition, arrived at the portal of #epatient via a trip through the medical-industrial complex. Either they,…
Your Hospital Social Media Benchmark: How Do You Rank?
A basic element of healthcare delivery–one that has not changed in recent reforms and re-invention–is that medical care is truly a personal process. Yes, telemedicine has closed issues of distance. And, yes,…
High Drama in an Ambulatory Surgery Center
A few days before I wrote this, a patient had a complication in my office. I have discussed on this blog the distinction between a complication, which is a blameless…
Make Your Hospital’s Digital Experience Mom-Friendly
When it comes to running the household, it's often mom who calls the shots. This is especially true for important healthcare decisions, like selecting the right health insurance, picking a…
Collaborative Innovation: A Decade in Perspective
At the Healthcare Roundtable last month, I had the pleasure of speaking about work that I facilitated at a West-coast community hospital. The need for the work arose from the…
Telemedicine Market Shows Strong Growth Due to Healthcare Changes
One of the biggest growth areas in healthcare right now is telemedicine. The numbers are impressive. One of the biggest growth areas in healthcare right now is telemedicine. The numbers…
Medicaid for All?
“As More Join Medicaid, Health Systems Feel Strain.” That’s the striking and counterintuitive headline on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. The Affordable Care Act is injecting billions upon…
Health Startups: Rockies Venture Club Nurtures Denver’s Ecosystem
Summary: There’s an active health startup ecosystem in the Denver area, where investors are looking at transparency issues, self-tracking devices like the Fitbit, and other ways to build on the…
