Harvesting the Collective Patient Experience
In our continuing series of leadership interviews, Lonnie Hirsch of Healthcare Success talks with Dr. Joseph Bianco, family medicine physician practicing in Ely, Minnesota. Dr. In our continuing…
Some Doctors Are Getting the Hang of Online Reviews
Doctors Check Online Ratings and Make Some Changes in the Wall Street Journal starts out like many articles on the topic: by giving physicians the opportunity to vent about the evils of…
Janssen Labs Expands Its Incubator Model to New San Francisco Digs
First published on MedCityNews.com. A new 30,000-square-foot incubator opening later this year in South San Francisco aims to make starting a life science company as quick and capital-efficient as starting a…
5 Signs You Should Outsource Your Medical Billing
As a healthcare professional, your focus and strength should be on your patients and their treatment plans rather than on managing your office financials. As a healthcare professional, your focus…
4 Level of Care Tools: Comparing Level of Care Assessment
Summary: What do ASAM®, LOCUS®, CALOCUS®, and InterQual® all have in common? They are all level of care assessment tools, each with a different perspective. Summary: What do ASAM®, LOCUS®,…
Established to Emerging, Commodity to Advanced in Wound Management
Wound management is about as diverse a market as there can be in medtech. Wounds can be acute or chronic, surgically created or arising from trauma or disease, treated with…
The Secret to Patient Engagement: More Engaging Physicians and Health IT
I was the keynote speaker recently at a national Patient Engagement Symposium. I opened my presentation by asking the audience how many considered themselves to be engaged in their health.…
Using Twitter to “Live Tweet” a Kidney Transplant @UofUHealthCare
University of Utah Health Care (@UofUHealthCare) pushed the healthcare social media agenda forward yesterday, as well as heightened the bar for transparency in healthcare, as they “live tweeted” a kidney…
Getting It Right: More Physician Reputation Management Rules [Part 2]
Our previous post, 10 Commandments of Online Reputation Management for Physicians, emphasized the importance and value of creating and maintaining your online presence. Reputation is an ever-present ingredient in health…
Bad Medicine: Spycraft and Vaccination Efforts
I admire many of the creative efforts used by our intelligence agencies to keep America safe. Spycraft itself is a wonderfully fascinating area, both in reality and fiction. But some…
