The Financial Hardship of Cancer
When you are diagnosed with cancer your life is put on full stop. It may be for a moment, or an hour, or much longer. Depending upon the diagnosis and…
What Social Media Site Is Your Doctor Networking on?
Last year, “social recruiting” became mainstream as more job seekers and companies discovered the opportunity to connect on social platforms. For today’s 1.2 billion users worldwide, one in five minutes…
Medical Review Management: Vital For Doctor’s Online Reputation
There was a time in the not too distant past that a business’s reputation was made or ruined by word-of-mouth peer reviews or a call to the Better Business Bureau.…
Subsidies Will Temper Health Insurance “Rate Shock” for the Young
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is a complex, multi-faceted law but critiques of it are often simplistic and opponents find themselves getting twisted up in contradictions trying to resist…
More Engaged Patient Care Means Expanding the Definition of “Healthcare”
One question I like to ask to stimulate conversation with people in the healthcare industry is, what kind of technologies and tools do you think have exciting potential to change…
Relapse: The Revolving Door
One of the persistent challenges of fighting addiction is the risk of relapse, or the full return to an addictive lifestyle after an attempt to quit. Addiction crosses all demographic…
Healthcare Insurance Marketplaces: What You Need to Know
Whether or not you agree with healthcare reform, it's important to know how it's going to affect you. Unfortunately, it seems like there's a lot of conflicting information out there.…
ikaSystems CEO Joe Marabito on Transforming Health Plan IT Systems [TRANSCRIPT]
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Joe Marabito, CEO of ikaSystems. We discuss the complexities of the health plan IT world and how health reform is providing new opportunities for…
Dramatic Shifts in Health and Technology in the Last 3 Years Impact Physicians
“It’s really exciting to see from just 2010 to 2013 these incredibly dramatic shifts year-over-year because of new technologies; creating a lot of exciting new opportunities for engagement across them.…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Escape Fire, the Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
We recently attended a screening of the documentary “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”. The 2012 film shines a light on major issues with the US healthcare system,…
