Installing an MU-Certified EHR Doesn’t Mean Saying Good-Bye to Paper
As I travel and speak with physician practices and hospital execs about health IT, I often hear questions about how practices can become paperless as they transition from manual to…
Experimental Cholesterol Drug Cuts LDL Levels in Half After 1 Year
Results from Amgen’s year-long safety and efficacy study showed monthly treatment with its experimental cholesterol drug reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL or “bad”) cholesterol by 52 percent while causing no serious…
Quantifying Quality in Healthcare
As a supporter of efforts to promote health and wellness by preventing and better managing chronic diseases, and accordingly, policy efforts to align financial incentives, the Partnership to Fight Chronic…
Threatened by Domestic Violence? There’s an App for That
If you have followed the recent stories about George Zimmerman, the guy who killed Trayvon Marten, you know that he was just released from jail, on bail, after being accused…
RSNA 2013: Mobile Connect—Image Viewers and Patient Access for Radiology
The patient has been an important focus in radiology throughout 2013. Dose efficiency, smart imaging, quality care, patient engagement and patient access have been hot topics and it has been…
The Importance of Collaboration in Your Hospital
I attend a number of conferences throughout the year. The most obvious intents of attending such events for many organizations are sales, marketing, and brand eminence. However, what is often…
Can You Hear Me Now? Another Health Market that Really Works
Hearing aids have been expensive — until now. Hearing aids have been expensive — until now.An interesting story in The New York Times a little over a year ago relayed…
Watch, Feel, Share: How Emotion-Fueled Videos Propel (Viral) Engagement
Of the thousands of hospital or healthcare videos, few will ever “go viral.” But nearly all online videos that hit the big time circuit—being shared and shared again—will be fueled…
How to Improve Healthcare: Address Super-Utilizers
Super-Utilizers: “Frequent Flyers” will drive healthcare improvement for all of us.Dr. Jeffrey Brenner is a family doctor in an impoverished area of Camden. The area has one of the highest…
Making a 5% Commitment to Medicaid
Larry Casalino, MD, PhD, a well-known health services researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, has written a Perspective for the November 7, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of…
