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…
Apple’s HealthKit vs. Google Fit [INFOGRAPHIC]
The field of mHealth has never been hotter as more people add wearables to their list of must-have devices. With the release of the iPhone 6 and HealthKit, Apple is…
Why I Tweet My Presentations
@JBBC @endocrine_witch I often livetweet my talks using Tweetdeck – @colleen_young taught me how— Pat Rich (@cmaer) October 11, 2014 @JBBC @endocrine_witch I often livetweet my talks using Tweetdeck –…
Is Hepatitis C Treatment Cost-Effective?
One catch phrase in health care reform is cost-effectiveness. To paraphrase, this label means that a medical treatment is worth the price. For example, influenza vaccine, or ‘flu shot’, is…
Will Shear Wave Elastography Make an Impact in Liver Disease?
How can hepatologists use ultrasound more effectively in the diagnosis and follow-up of chronic liver disease to increase patient satisfaction and improve the operating expenses for the service line manager? …
CMS Proposes Further Expansion of Rewards for Medicare: Retailer Reward Programs
As we reported last week in our blog, on May 23, 2014, CMS released provisions giving MA plans more flexibility to reward Medicare recipients for healthy behavior. As we reported…
