A Simple Way to Improve the Profitability of a Medical Practice
Improving the profitability of a medical practice or any healthcare business that bills third-party medical insurance plans can be difficult. In fact, the constant downward pricing pressures from insurance companies,…
How Technology Could Solve VA Healthcare Issues
Every news channel is covering the issues that were revealed at the VA. To boil it all down, there appears to have been secret “wait-lists” that masked the amount of…
Defining Healthcare Value
Defining Healthcare ValueOne of the greatest challenges in healthcare currently is not so much a matter of practice, but definition. How has healthcare ‘value’ been defined and do we need…
Why You Should Care About Your Personal Health Record and Access to Your Data
I know, yawn, another IT pundit writing about perso I know, yawn, another IT pundit writing about personal health records (PHRs) and why you should care about them. Let’s face…
Quality of Service in Healthcare: Have You Assessed Yours?
Assessing the Quality of Service DeliveryWith consistent disruption within the healthcare world driven by a cycle of innovation and consumer pressure. It has become more difficult for healthcare concerns to…
Beyond the Buzz: A Twitter Tool to Better Manage Your Healthcare Marketing
The key to healthcare marketing success is building meaningful relationships. That’s why I like Twitter so much – for me it has been the best platform to build relationships. Of course…
New York’s Fully Integrated Duals Advantage Program: An Overview
Dual eligibles, those people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, make up a disproportionate amount of federal and state health care spending. Dual eligibles, those people who qualify for…
Most Breast Cancer Patients May Not Be Getting Enough Exercise
A new study in the journal CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, finds that most participants in a large breast cancer study did not meet national physical…
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Leave No Patient on the Battlefield
Despite our professed values, everything has a price. We value life, but our society is unwilling to lower the highway speed limit to 40 mph, which would surely save lives. The…
5 Benefits of Orthopedic Group Purchasing
A study conducted by Dr. Eugene Schneller, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University: ‘The Value of Group Purchasing 2009: Meeting the Needs for Strategic Savings’, reports that…
