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…
IT Can Make a Big Difference in Healthcare: Why Hasn’t It?
The final in the excellent collaborative healthcare series from the University of Washington and WBBA did not necessarily end the series on a high note: speaker Peter Neupert presented a…
“Google Calico” and Modern Healthcare: Can Google Make Us Live Forever?
You may recall some murmurings last year about a new Google venture cryptically called Calico. In the heyday of 23andMe, Apple’s many health apps and the hefty focus on technology…
Why the Individual Mandate Is Important
As a reasonably young and healthy person, freelance social worker Tammy Boudreaux wasn’t a big believer in health insurance. But then she hurt her finger. She paid out of pocket for emergency…
