Person-Centered HealthCare: Patient-Centered Medical Homes Need to Become More “Patient-Centered”
A recent study in Medical Care about Horizon BCBS’s Medical Home pilot reminded me of the expression a “house does not make a home.” Or in this case, how building…
Noise Reduction in Hospitals: The Value of Patient Experience Surveys
The value of patient experience surveys is intuitive to consumers, who are definitely interested in what other patients think about their doctors and hospitals. Providers are not always enthusiastic –the…
Will “Medicare As We Know It” Persist, or Will It Change?
Stephen C Schimpff, MD is a quasi-retired internist, professor of medicine and public policy, former CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center. He chairs the advisory committee for Sanovas, Inc.…
mHealth Practices: Plugging the Holes
The medical device market is a fast-developing sector in the U.S. healthcare industry, and mobile health solutions have been a subject of serious discussions among technology experts for quite some…
Top 10 Fitness Apps to Stay Fit
Fitness apps making keeping track of your dieting and healthy lifestyle much easier and simpler, whether it's allowing for you to track your mileage when you run or the calories…
Would You Pick a Restaurant Based on a Health Score?
When people visit the review site Yelp to look up a restaurant, they usually look for reviews on food quality and service. Each page’s profile provides reviews from customers, location…
Molecular, Genomic Diagnostic Service Lab Raising Funds for Personalized Medicine
Using DNA sequencing to help doctors and pharmaceutical companies personalize treatments for disease has netted a South Carolina startup a small seed round of capital. Using DNA sequencing to help…
ICD 10 Implementation: Understanding the Financial Ramifications
Hospitals and providers across the country are gearing up for implementation of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, or ICD-10 codes. ICD-10 implementation, despite several false starts,…
Changing Behavior Through Patient Stories in Telluride
Each new session in Telluride, Dave Mayer and Tim McDonald share the Tears to Transparency educational documentary films — stories of harm that befell Michael Skolnik and Lewis Blackman–both promising…
Do All of Us Really Have to Change?
As someone who professionally closely tracks the debate over the transformation of the American health care clinical delivery system, I did not learn much new from the June 2nd New York…
