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…
Why EHRs are Key to Better Clinical Data
You cannot manage what you cannot measure. What you cannot measure, you cannot improve. These management adages are particularly resonant when it come to electronic health records (EHRs) and medical…
Targeted Local Medical Marketing: Quickly Build Your Online Presence
People who are new to digital marketing often believe that putting up a website and sprinkling in some keywords means they are good to go. If the keywords are part…
