Patient and Family Advisory Council: Lessons Learned
I recently set up a patient and family advisory council to address safety and quality concerns from the patient/family perspective. Creating an organizational structure that would fit within the culture…
Hospitals Going Concierge: Creative Marketing at Its Best
Offering concierge service is one way a hospital can kick it up a notch, but what does it entail? This is one of the newest perks that hospitals are using…
The ENGAGE Conference: Top Insights for Patient-Centric Digital Health Innovators
MedCityNews invited me to attend their ENGAGE “Innovation in Patient Engagement” Conference and I found the content, speakers, and overall quality quite good. Since I chair several conferences every year I…
Price Transparency: The Devil is in the Detail for Hospitals
Let’s say an informed patient determined that the cost for “arteriography and angiocardiography using contrast material” was half as expensive at “Hospital A” as compared to “Hospital B.” At half…
Cerner and Missouri Forging a Real Partnership for Population Health
Increasingly, the United States is looking to “population health” as a means of providing better health and care to entire communities. Nevertheless, defining such communities and how to improve outcomes,…
The Growing Trend of Automation in Healthcare
Health care is one of the hottest topics of debate these days, and no discussion about the subject is complete without a look at healthcare costs. There have been many…
Mobility Matters in Physician Satisfaction with EHR Solutions
By now it is becoming quite clear that the billions of dollars in government incentives to get physicians using electronic health record solutions has moved the market. According to an article in…
Dying in America? Bureaucrats Care
Grim ReaperCeramic ghosts are grinning at the grocery store. Pumpkins are piled in the parking lot. Costumes are waiting to transform small children into princesses, bumblebees and superheroes. The first…
Apple HealthKit: Epic Integration at Ochsner Health System
The first health system to announce that it had integrated HealthKit into its Epic EHR is Ochsner Health System in Louisiana. It is a 12-hospital, 40-clinic operation with over 900…
iPad EHR Drchrono Gears Up for HealthKit
Apple’s HealthKit and Drchrono’s OnPatient will work together Apple’s HealthKit and Drchrono’s OnPatient will work togetherDrchrono bills itself as the “original mobile EHR built for the iPad.” With that in…
