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…
Smokers Die Ten Years Sooner Than Nonsmokers
We all know that smoking is bad for our health. But how bad is bad? The answer is very bad. It takes a decade off of life.Death rates are…
HIMSS 2013: Radiology IT Undergoing Radical Changes and Meaningful Use is Just the Beginning (Part I of II)
By now, many of you have most likely embarked on your journey to fulfilling Meaningful Use and are under way for attesting your results for 2012. With most practicing radiologists…
Gluten
My daughter is a barista. She came home from work recently and said, "One of the customers came in today and wanted to know if our hot tea was 'gluten-free'.…
What’s Wrong with Pay for Performance?
The quality of teaching has a big impact on student performance. But a lot of other factors are also important. Over the course of a semester student test scores in…
