What Are Your Health IT Pain Points?
Healthcare technology is changing faster than most organizations can keep up. What are you doing to comply?Healthcare technology is a rapidly changing field. Some of the changes are required to…
pharmaphorum: Patient Opinion Leaders Are the New Healthcare Influencers
While the notion of online influence, with accompanying tools such as Klout, may be a new concept within the digital world, finding those individuals that hold most sway with their…
Initiating a Bundled Payment Project
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Laozi, Founder of TaosimA bundled payment project has great potential to bring positive change to a provider organization.…
Coordinated Care Begins With The Patient
Get to know the patient, their needs; then build a care system around them. Get to know the patient, their needs; then build a care system around them.Since we cannot…
Glucose Monitoring Research Drives More Promises Than Answers
If I had a nickel for every headline like this that ultimately failed, like the technology, to actually achieve the promise, I would be on a tropical beach sipping pina…
The Geographic Divide: How Federalism Has Formalized Health Disparities
Jimmy Carter once said that America is not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. We have all sorts of people here, but we want them to maintain their unique…
5 Steps to Improving Receipt of Patient Payments
Increasingly, the healthcare industry has been shifting toward patient cost-sharing, which includes high deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance. Consequently, collecting from patients has taken on a higher level of importance than…
Play or Pay: The Triple Aim for 2015 and Beyond
Summary: What will you decide for your organization beginning 2015? Will you “play or pay”?The “play or “pay” principle basically says that if employers with 50 or more full time…
The Leaked NY Times Report and Digital Marketing for Medical Devices Are Closely Related
The internal “leaked” report that created a buzzA few weeks ago a “secret” internal 96-page report was leaked. The report, titled “New York Times Innovation Report,” provides an in depth…
Gun Violence Restraining Order: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The idea of a gun violence restraining order is being proposed in wake of the recent killings just off the UCSB campus and the warning signs that were fully recognized too late.…
