In moving from healthcare to health, consumers and patients must be enabled to make healthier, more cost-effective choices. A large part of success may be…
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Patient Satisfaction: Who’s Paying the Price for Happy Patients?
I admit I was skeptical when I first heard about the patient satisfaction component to Medicare reimbursement that was part of the Affordable Care Act….
A New Era of Value-Driven Pharmaceuticals
You may have heard of value-based medicine, but are we entering a new era of value-based medications or value-driven pharma? Spreading risk and payment to…
Preparing for the Next Decade of Health IT at the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) held it’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2014. This marked the…
Healthcare’s New OS: Creation Spaces Built on Trust are The Key
Healthcare’s business model will be turned upside down in three years. Creation spaces and community architectures may be the answer to building trust and learning…
Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS: Now What?
In my last post, I made the analogy that Accountable Care and value-based payment models are doing what Microsoft did in the 80s, creating a…
Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS
The 1st year report card on Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations is out. Depending on who you talk to, the story changes dramatically. As Gregg Masters…
Deflating The Healthcare Bubble
As we get closer to HIMSS13, I think back to some of my key takeaways from HIMSS12. One of the things I heard over and…
Do a 360: How Health IT Will Make a Difference During the Next 12 Months
I’m one of those people who doesn’t feel a day over 25. In reality, I’m 11 years past my quarter-century mark. In my mind, I…
Happy Birthday America! We’re All Unhappy (Unless you’re in Health IT) with the Plan We Deserve
Last Thursday the Supreme Court got us a present for our birthday, the plan we deserve, aka the Affordable Care Act. It was a grand…
