Twelve “Connected Health” Innovators Are Staying Out Front
Healthcare reform is now less of a preoccupation as healthcare payers, providers and consumers digest the ramifications of the U.S. Presidential election and that the main tenants for the Affordable…
Empowering Healthcare Improvement with the Community Needs Assessment
With President Obama’s second inaugural speech calling for a reduction in rising healthcare costs, the need for reassessment of health and social service delivery in the physician’s office, medical homes,…
The Cost of Diagnosis: The Sometimes Fatal “Incidentaloma”
I can remember making rounds with a seasoned surgical attending in medical school. In typical fashion, surgical rounds were a lot like the military. The “General” (attending physician) at…
Medicaid Cost-Sharing Disaster Looms Ahead
From 1974 to 1982, a group of researchers conducted the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. In lay terms, what they did was assign people to different levels of insurance coverage, with…
What Amazon Can Teach us About Telehealth Adoption
One reason Internet shopping got established and grew as quickly as it did is that online shopping sites have enjoyed a built in tax advantage over traditional retail stores.…
Hip Replacement Increases Stroke Risk Fourfold
Individuals who underwent a total hip replacement had at least four times the risk of suffering a stroke in the weeks immediately following, a Dutch study reported. Researchers say more…
A Double Whammy for Smokers: An ObamaCare Tax
The Affordable Care Act…allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1.For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly…
Looming PR Challenge: When Physicians’ Pay Links to Quality of Care
The redesign of the nation’s healthcare delivery system is setting up for another wave of change. And this one’s certain to fuel public relations challenges for healthcare PR professionals with…
Person-Centered HealthCare: David-Michel Davies of Webby Award Fame Talks Public Health
Recently, I had the great opportunity to talk with David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards. For those who don't know about the Webby Awards, (from the website): Recently,…
How to Differentiate Your Health IT Products and Services
John Lynn and I teamed up with Cari McLean (@carimclean) and Michael Gaspar (@MichaelGaspar) from the HIMSS Social Media team to talk about how to differentiate your products and…
