New ACA Provision Calls for Cost Transparency in Hospitals
As part of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has put a new rule about healthcare costs for hospitals: the word is transparency. It’s not…
ACOs Rapidly Expanding Across States
Summary: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are gaining in popularity as a result of the ACA. Summary: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are gaining in popularity as a result of the ACA.ACO…
8 Major Advantages of Dictated Medical Transcriptions
Due to incentives offered to physicians by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for using electronic health records (EHR), physicians have been experimenting with different ways to do this that…
ICD-10? Get Ready for ICD-11
ICD-10 implementation has been called medicine’s perfect storm. Between the deadlines for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2, ICD-10, and other health IT requirements, it’s not surprising many are looking ahead…
2014 Healthcare Marketing Report
Healthcare as we know it is in the midst of unprecedented change. This change is being driven by structural challenges facing life sciences companies, the advent of the Affordable Care…
Rare Diseases and the Promise of Genetics [VIDEO]
Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, is not just an award-winning researcher and physician, the founder of 2 biotech companies, and the inventor of a tool to help diagnose rare diseases. He…
Creating a Realistic Hospital Marketing Plan
With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offering more healthcare options to patients across the country, hospitals may find themselves having to compete for patients. For some this may be old…
Twitter Collage: A Zillion Volts of Noticeability
Cleveland Clinic Tweet Cleveland Clinic TweetIf, as the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” what’s the marketing “worth” of four pictures?Twitter has introduced another new tool that…
Digital Tools in Pharma: An Interview with Panos Papakonstantinou
Papos Papakonstantinou of Novartis Europe, digital specialist, will be speaking at Doctors 2.0 & You on June 5 in Paris in a session covering three facets of digital pharma. Before…
The Iceberg Waiting for Your Health Care Data
The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. In the time since then, numerous web-based services…
