HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance: Should You Care?
The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule became effective just over one year ago. The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule became effective just over one year ago. The compliance date was just over six months…
ICD-10 Delay: What It Means to You
When President Obama signed H.R. 4302 into law, it pushed back the compliance date for ICD-10 by at least one year. The 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of…
Healthcare: Get Ready to Shake, Rattle and Roll
On March 14th, I published a HealthBlog post called Disrupting and Destructing Healthcare. It has been widely distributed around the web and has had thousands of views. In that piece, I argued…
How Suffering May Change You for the Better
I was reading an opinion piece by David Brooks in today’s New York Times and it clari I was reading an opinion piece by David Brooks in today’s New York…
Healthcare Buzzwords: What Is Big Data?
The term “Big Data” has only recently entered the healthcare and The term “Big Data” has only recently entered the healthcare and medicine verbiage. It used to be largely reserved…
Improving Clinical Outcomes by Addressing Social and Basic Needs
"It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has." – Hippocrates – Greek Physician (460 BC to 370 BC) "It is far…
Lack of Listening Is the Core Problem in American Health Care
The Crisis in Primary Care – Part 4 The Crisis in Primary Care – Part 4There is and will be a need for many more primary care physicians (PCPs). Why?…
How Much Is Your Website Hurting Your Business?
If your website hasn’t been updated in the past year, it’s almost certainly driving potential customers away – and those customers…they’re going straight to your competitors.So what exactly is your website…
The Aesthetics and Reconstructive Surgery Products Global Market
Global medical aesthetic products are to achieve sales of more than $6.5 billion in 2013. Through 2018 the market is expected to reach a value of about $10.7 billion. Europe…
Bundled Payments: Rewarding Quality and Value
Summary: The healthcare industry is transforming from fee-for-service to value-based payment systems. Summary: The healthcare industry is transforming from fee-for-service to value-based payment systems. One of the fairly new forms…
