Utilization Review vs. Utilization Management
Utilization Review versus Utilization Management? Although the two terms are often used in the same way and to mean more or less the same thing in healthcare, the two concepts…
Ebola: Are We Relying on EHR to Tell the Story?
Ebola — this word has its own hashtag, millions of tweets, hundreds if not thousands of articles in the past month, and the power to frighten many people. Fear is…
Cancer Social Media: A Story of Wins and Losses
Social media that connects me with other people with cancer—especially the specific cancers I have dealt with—has been a godsend to me. Social media that connects me with other people…
Ebola: Chronicle of a Debacle Foretold
Paths to Caring?Ebola is a harrowing disaster in West Africa, killing thousands and leaving devastated families in its wake. Ebola is a surreal debacle in America. Leaving outraged politicians and…
Social Media Safety: Virtual Connections Provide Realtime Results
Natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes or even pandemics like the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia can change lives forever. Back just 20 years ago when these types of…
Are ACOs Just the Managed Care of the 90’s?
A major theory driving the criticism of Accountable Care is that ACOs are, in fact, just a glamorized version of the
Beyond Ebola: Doximity and Doctors Without Borders Work to Fight Infectious Disease
Finding physicians with specific clinical expertise to work in conflict zones and during disease outbreaks is a unique challenge for recruiters at Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF). The…
The Healthcare Hashtag Project: #Ebola
There is a concern that healthcare has been slow to embrace social media and appreciate its potential to educate and inform. Twitter numbers about healthcare conversations tell a different story:…
The Healthcare Hashtag Project: #Ebola
There is a concern that healthcare has been slow to embrace social media and appreciate its potential to educate and inform. Twitter numbers about healthcare conversations tell a different story:…
How to Secure Data in Healthcare
Recent headlines of data security breaches at large corporations and system bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock have reminded us of the importance of proper network security. Recent headlines of data…
