Price Transparency in Medical Care
As healthcare costs become a bigger and bigger chuck of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP), price transparency is a subject that insurance companies and patients are talking about. The idea…
Your Employees are Depressed. Why Employers and You Should Care
Cut to the chase and the Bottom Line: Cut to the chase and the Bottom Line:If you are an employer, or an employee here are undisputable facts that have been…
Electronic Medical Records Holds Doctors Hostage
Which of the following events is most traumatic for a practicing physician? Which of the following events is most traumatic for a practicing physician? Your staff doesn’t show up because…
Driving Down the Real Cost of Healthcare: Pediatric and Teen Medical Homes
At last, the presidential race has concluded and, as a nation, we can prepare to move forward. With President Obama’s election to a second term, implementation of the Accountable Care…
Chancellor Hints at Regenerative Medicine #regenmed Anouncement
This is extracted from Osborne's speech today on science and its importance to the UK. This section is where he speaks about regenerative medicine. Note the comment at the end…
ObamaCare Gets Health Plans Focused on Cost
It bothered me when Governor Romney cited the continued increase in health care costs as a reason to do away with ObamaCare. Health care costs have been rising for decades…
Nurses Strong During Hurricane Sandy and Every Day
The post is dedicated to all the remarkable nurses, doctors and other members of the health care team. Your strength and dedication is extraordinary, and not only in the wake…
Five Ways to Boost Patient Satisfaction Scores
Improving patient satisfaction scores requires healthcare organizations to rethink and redesign service offerings to ensure outcomes align with patients’ needs. Improving patient satisfaction scores requires healthcare organizations to rethink and…
Person-Centered HealthCare: The Choosing Wisely Campaign
The mission of the ABIM Foundation is to "advance medical professionalism to improve the healthcare system." In 2012, the ABIM Foundation joined with nine leading medical specialty groups, as well…
Four Keys to Understanding Big Data in Healthcare
Extracting value from “Big Data” has become a pursuit across all industries as the internet of things and a proliferation of data producing devices in manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, communications…
