On the Road Again for Cancer Connections
Over the next couple of weeks I will be traveling thousands of miles on long-distance flights to connect with other patients, in person. It can be exhausting but it’s energizing…
Is Your Operating Room Leaking Money?
Organic growth of total joint replacement volume is growing at 3-4% per year as the number of physicians entering orthopedic residency programs is in decline. Cuts in Medicare reimbursement for…
Cracking the Code on Health Information Exchange: Is It Time to Start Over?
Over the years, I’ve written more than a few HealthBlog posts on the topic of health information exchange (HIE) and why I feel so strongl Over the years, I’ve written…
Whatcha Gonna Do When Hospital Advertising Goes Sour?
Let’s hope you never back into a buzz saw of “unintended consequences.” That’s when seemingly ordinary events inexplicably spin over to the dark side. Let’s hope you never back into a buzz saw…
5 Ways Big Data Is Improving Patient Outcomes
The main goal of healthcare has always been to help people live longer, healthier and more productive lives. In pursuit of that goal, healthcare has come a long way over…
Dual-Eligibility: An Overworked and Overlooked Population?
What is Dual-Eligibility? What is Dual-Eligibility?9 million Americans are covered by both Medicare and Medicaid and are part of a unique community of healthcare consumers known as the dual eligible.…
Should Step Therapy and Prior Authorization Be Outlawed?
In ‘Fail first’ fails patients in the Boston Sunday Globe, a patient with depression decries his health plan’s use of “step therapy,” which requires members to try less expensive drugs before…
Advancing Comprehensive Obesity Solutions Critical in the Fight Against Chronic Disease
As providers and patients, policymakers and stakeholders alike, all still grapple with how to understand obesity as a disease, the recent announcement by the U.S. As providers and patients, policymakers…
Top 10 Takeaways from #SXSW2014: Part Two
As promised, here are the remaining five of my Top 10 from this year’s SXSW marathon! If you haven’t been, I think it’s still worth going but the meeting itself…
