Preventable Readmissions and a Recent OIG Advisory Opinion
Medicare's excess readmission penalty policy (up to a 1% ding in I Medicare's excess readmission penalty policy (up to a 1% ding in IPPS Medicare payments to hospitals that have…
Mobile Health Around the Globe: Beddit Tells You How You Slept and How to Do It Better
Do you have trouble sleeping? Beddit will tell you why and give you information to improve your sleep and wellness. Do you have trouble sleeping? Beddit will tell you why and give…
Healthcare Expenses in the US: These Hospital Bills on Reddit Say It All
Originally published on MedCityNews.com.TIL a few surprising tidbits about how the cost of healthcare in the U.S. stacks up to other countries.I actually saw them on Reddit — where TIL…
What Pharma Can Learn From Lego
Since becoming a father last year, I've started to take more of an interest in LEGO®. My son is still a little young for even Duplo LEGO, at 11 months…
Top 10 Quotes From Rock Health’s Innovation Summit
(Editor's Note: Dan Munro writes for Forbes under the heading, "HealthCare Compass") (Editor's Note: Dan Munro writes for Forbes under the heading, "HealthCare Compass")Earlier today, Rock Health concluded their 3rd…
Don’t Call Me a Health Care Provider: I’m a Doctor
One thing doctors like to do is to use fancy language. Patients, however, want physicians to use simple terms. Perhaps, using highfalutin language makes physicians feel more scholarly and important. …
Colorado’s Medical Neighborhood and HIE
When I first started blogging, one of my favorite topics was on health information exchange and RHIOs. It made sense because had been working with RHIOs and data exchange projects…
Spit Happens! Genentech and 23andMe Team Up to Advance Genomic Testing in Clinical Trials
(Editor's Note: John Nosta writes for Forbes under the heading, "Health Critical")Has genomic testing come of age? (Editor's Note: John Nosta writes for Forbes under the heading, "Health Critical")Has genomic…
EHRs Now Predict a Connection Between Type 2 Diabetes and Dementia
Use of electronic health records (EHRs) has begun to skyrocket in the past few years. Currently, 70 percent of family physicians have adopted them in their practices, and that number is…
Drug Database Brings Healthcare Big Data to Ordinary People
Originally published on MedCityNews.com. Originally published on MedCityNews.com. The healthcare industry has created more than 50 petabytes of data, but much of it never reaches the people who could benefit most…
