Small, Solo-Provider Practices Lag in EHR Adoption
At the beginning of May, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than half of all eligible healthcare providers had received federal incentive payments for participating…
Person-Centered HealthCare: Improving Patient Experience By Improving Care
Improving patient satisfaction may be at the top of your to-do list in 2013, especially as it relates directly to “Meaningful Use” and maximizing revenue. But what about engagement of…
A Key to Cancer Hope You Should Know
Do you have resources to deal with cancer that go beyond understanding treatment? Patients like me certainly spend a lot of time talking about treatments, and research into better treatments,…
Improving the US Health System: Biggest Obstacles
It’s almost cliché to say that the American healthcare system is changing. But the reality is that the pace of care delivery transformation will speed up in 2013 with technology,…
Diagnosis of Heart Defects Before Birth Prepares Parents and Doctors
Sinai Hospital’s Institute for Maternal-Fetal Medicine was recently awarded accreditation in fetal echocardiography from the Ultrasound Practice Council of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). This important and…
High Reliability Boot Camp: Preparing for Zero Preventable Harm
First published on Educate the YoungMedStar Health is partnering with HPI (Healthcare Performance Improvement) to take this innovative health system to zero preventable harm utilizing the principles of high reliability…
ER Docs Play Critical Role in Controlling Healthcare Costs
Originally published on MedCityNews.Insightful new healthcare research from the RAND Corp. emphasizes the growing influence on healthcare spending based on decisions made by the 4 percent of U.S. physicians who…
The Healthcare Conundrum: Doing What’s Wrong for Business by Doing What’s Right
I read with interest this morning an article by Erin McCann, Associate Editor at Healthcare IT News. Ms. McCann shines a bright light on the sad fact that under today’s reimbursement system, better…
Health Start-Ups! – The Crowdfunding Floodgates Are (Kind of) Open
Originally published on MedCityNews. Originally published on MedCityNews.It’s been just over one year since the JOBS Act was passed, which makes equity- and debt-based crowdfunding legal for accredited and nonaccredited…
Harvard Pilgrim CEO Eric Schultz on Consumer Engagement and Transparency [TRANSCRIPT]
This is the transcript of my recent interview with Harvard Pilgrim’s CEO Eric Schultz. An audio version is available here. This is the transcript of my recent interview with Harvard Pilgrim’s CEO…
