Unlocking a Patient’s Comprehensive “Clinical Narrative” Is Critical to ACO Enablement
There has never been a more pronounced period of transformation and change across the U.S. There has never been a more pronounced period of transformation and change across the U.S.…
Get Healthy Without Breaking the Bank
What's in your medicine cabinet? Every time we click on our TVs, browse the Web or turn the dial to our car radios, we’re bombarded with ads for special vitamins and…
Hallmark is Listening
Today has been an amazing day. The petition for Hallmark to create hospice cards has now grown past 1,500 signatures. Hallmark has responded in two ways. The Hallmark search engine now…
Interpreting Physician Rating Websites: Garbage IN Equals Garbage OUT
In the past, learning about a good doctor or a pleasant hospital experience was a “word of mouth” phenomenon. Today, more and more patients are going online for information about…
Healthcare Pendulum, Has It Swung Too Far?
Does your healthcare system have a balanced approach to cost containment versus revenue capture?If the pendulum swings too much in either direction, the viability of the healthcare organization is…
How Workplace Injuries Make the Lives of Low-Wage Workers Miserable
Workplace injuries, though very common even in developed countries, rarely manage to steal a headline in major newspapers. And even in some rarest of rare cases, if an incident manages…
Person-Centered HealthCare: How To Speak So Your Doctor Will Listen
This post was originally published on Mind the Gap.Doctors interrupt patients 18 seconds into an office visit, on average. Given this fact, patients who seek to maximize their healthcare must…
Telling Healthcare Stories via Multiple Media
The most amazing example of new journalism was forwarded to me the end of last year. The NYTimes produced a piece entitled, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek that…
HealthCare Social Media: How Eric Topol Gets His News
How do you turn the flood of news and information into something useful? That's what we try to do at Delve, and for our Wonk Lens series we ask smart…
EHRs and Improper Billing: Should We Worry?
Concerns are emerging that the adoption of electronic health records is leading to inappropriate increases in billings to payers, including Medicare, and that these higher billings could undermine or even overwhelm any…
