5 (More) Ways to Wake Up Your Underachieving Website
A unproductive (or outright lazy) employee wouldn’t last long in a well-managed medical practice. And, considering the investment that most doctors have sunk in their website, it’s frustrating to discover…
When It Comes to Denial Management, Qualitative Data Is Your Best Ally
When faced with a denied claim, your first question as a physician, biller or consumer should be why? When faced with a denied claim, your first question as a physician,…
Hooray for High-Priced Hepatitis Treatment Sovaldi
Congratulations to Gilead Sciences for producing Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), which cures hepatitis C about 90 percent of the time. The drug has a list price tag of $84,000 for 12 weeks…
Doctors 2.0 & You Videos: Serious Games – Jurriaan van Rijswijk, Jennifer Stinson and Oxana Kolosova
Serious Games bring essential techniques to bear on digital health. Gaming, gamification are rising in interest. Enjoy the following three videos with perspectives from Russia, the Netherlands, and Canada, all speakers…
Impressions from XX in Health
Last week I was fortunate to attend the XX in Health conference sponsored by Rock Health at Cavallo Point in Sausalito. Last week I was fortunate to attend the XX…
Getting Your Practice Marketing Started with a Physician Blog
Physician marketers know that a great way to add value to a website is by maintaining a blog. Blogs are a great source of information for patients and can be…
Ready or Not: ICD-10 Will Go Live as Planned Oct. 1st
The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) is moving ahead as planned with its October 1st compliance deadline for ICD-10 implementation. Many healthcare systems have requested that the deadline be postponed…
LinkedIn Influencers: Good or Bad for Pharma?
Like many, I was intrigued when LinkedIn first launched its ‘influencer’ blogging programme, back in late 2012. Like many, I was intrigued when LinkedIn first launched its ‘influencer’ blogging programme,…
Healthcare CEOs Want Mobility Training
Healthcare CEOs recognize that they need to build a bigger and better IT workforce this year. In fact, 53 percent of the CEOs surveyed want to hire more people immediately.…
Anecdote-Driven Systems Engineering and Complaint-Based Interoperability Design Won’t Solve Health IT Woes
As I’ve been preparing to chair the HealthIMPACT conference in Houston next Thursday I’ve been having some terrific conversations with big companies like Cisco, some of our publishing partners, and…
