A Healthcare Data Pro’s Innovation Wish List
First published on MedCityNews.com. Technologies that turn healthcare data into knowledge make up a market that’s projected to grow more than 20 percent over each of the next five years.…
How to Build Sustainable Models for HIE: Put the Citizen/Patient at the Center.
I enjoyed reading Anthony Brino’s surmise of US Health Information Exchange status in today’s issue of HealthITNews. As editor for HIEWatch and associate editor for Healthcare Payor News and Government Health IT, Mr. Brino is well…
Factors Influencing ACO Expansion
Summary: What is contributing to the rapid expansion of ACOs? What programs are currently being piloted? What are the initial results of current ACOs? Summary: What is contributing to the…
Four Ways to Make Your Hospital Website Pop
Like all websites, yours is a virtual storefront. It is the first thing a potential patient looks at when deciding whether or to choose your services or move on to…
Strategic Planning: Find Your Core Values
Strategic planning for a healthcare organization needs to incorporate several focuses, but a great place to start is by defining your core values. An organization’s core values guide all members…
The Gap Between Powerful Patients and the Organizations that Should Support Them
Patients meeting one another at an in-person event produced by Patient Power for the Patient Empowerment Network and City of Hope near Los Angeles Patients meeting one another at an…
My Health Plan Made Me Laugh
Are you serious?I really like my health plan, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. My plan has generous benefits, customer service is excellent, and there’s a great provider network. I’ve been a…
3 Reasons Your Readmission Rates Are Too High
Chances are, whether your on the administrative or clinical side of hospital operations, lowering readmission rates is high on your priority list. Chances are, whether your on the administrative or…
Why Healthcare Needs to Be Communicated in 6 Words or Less
“This is now up to me.” They’re only six words. Yet those six words sum up the new era of healthcare marketing. With the advent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),…
Patient-Centered Research at the National Cancer Institute
First published on the Patient Empowerment Network blog.We think of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as more of a biomedical research-oriented institution than a patient-centered one, but there is research…
