#ObamaCare and You: The Consumer and the ACA
(Editor's Note: The following is the second in a series of four exclusive HealthWorks Collective interviews on Health Policy by our Washington DC reporter, Steven Goldstein) (Editor's Note: The following…
Reducing Medical Denials Equals Increased Revenue
Summary: How does an organization begin to reverse the downward revenue trend? What steps need to be taken? Summary: How does an organization begin to reverse the downward revenue trend?…
Affordable Care: Your Prospective Patients Are Mighty Confused
When it comes to healthcare reform, a big chunk of the community that you serve—and audiences you want to reach with hospital and medical marketing—simply may not know what you’re…
Gowns and Gloves in the ICU: Part of the Infection Control Solution
It’s good to see health care providers continue to work on strategies to reduce health care acquired infections. It’s good to see health care providers continue to work on strategies…
Diagnosis Is a Cause Everyone Can Get Behind
One of the most moving moments (and there were many of them) at Global Genes’ recent patient summit was when Heather Long, founder of the Texas based non-profit U. R.…
What We Still Don’t Know About ObamaCare
“Cutting through the politics and focusing on how to make it all work is what we should be worrying about,” writes a reporter for Forbes magazine on the tax implications…
Kentucky Enrolls 7,000 People in Health Insurance via kynect
Kentucky’s state-run health insurance exchange seems to have fared better than most others so far, enrolling close to 7,000 people in the first seven days of October.That’s according to Barbara…
How Micro-Moves Can Drive Major HealthCare Change: Walking the Patient’s Path
First published in Harvard Business Review First published in Harvard Business ReviewThe complexity of today’s healthcare organizations makes it hard to change the way they do things. Conventional wisdom holds…
Boomer Voice: Digital Devices Help Reconnect the Hearing Impaired
Do you have loved ones whose hearing is keeping them from talking on the telephone? Do you worry when they don’t answer the phone, only to have them later tell…
What the FDA Is and Isn’t Doing During the Government Shutdown
There’s been lots of speculation as to what the government shutdown means for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — including various reports that our food isn’t getting inspected. There’s…
