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…
5 Steps to a Successful Physician Marketing Plan
Most physicians in a private practice setting do not have the time or background knowledge to efficiently manage their marketing campaigns. They often assign this task to a practice or…
The Benefits and Value of CARF Accreditation
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) was established in 1966 as an alternative to Joint Commission certification. Services provided by rehabilitation facilities are subtly specified in different ways…
Concierge Medicine: Paying for Convenience and Access
Summary: What are the latest trends with concierge medicine? What are the pros and cons associated from both a patient and physician perspective? How does the ACA play into concierge…
Collaborative Mindfulness
I entitled this post Collaborative Mindfulness because I believe that mindfulness is an under-appreciated approach to improving healthcare collaboration. Mindfulness derives from the 14th Century word mindeful, which means attentive, aware, and…
