The Holy Grail of Health IT right now is to create a trusted app platform and marketplace. We’ve seen that with Aetna’s CarePass and platform…
Archive | October, 2013
HIE Pilot Demonstrates Patients Can Control Privacy and Consent of Personal Health Data
Results from a pilot for the ONC shows that patients’ protected health information can adhere to consent directives throughout the HIE process involving multiple stakeholders….
Crowdsourcing the ‘Perfect’ Patient Portal
A recent #HITsm chat topic asked what elements are needed to constitute an effective patient portal. Let’s take a look at the most popular results.
Transparent By Design, Medicine for a Health Insurance Exchange
We can make the right decisions if we’re given real facts. It is true for health care, for prices, for data, for code, for physician…
Is a ‘Tech Surge’ the Right Solution for Healthcare.gov?
The Healthcare.gov fiasco cannot get any weirder than instigating a health IT “tech surge” to resolve the challenges with the Healthcare.gov website. There are many…
Hospital CEO Salaries Tied to Health IT Use and Patient Satisfaction Rates But Not to Patient Outcomes
CEOs of hospitals with advanced health IT are paid more. However, studies show mortality rates & readmission do not influence CEO salaries. Technology can only…
Healthcare Innovation: Find Inspiration Across Industries
Innovative leaders look outside of their comfort zone to other industries for inspiration, and to cross-pollinate ideas. What steps can you start incorporating to find…
Patient Safety: Correcting Both Our Culture and System Failures
A culture that advocates transparency, honesty, flat hierarchy, and teamwork, hospitals are still not safe without a system that is designed correctly. Contrarily, no amount…
Developing New Patient Engagement Drugs
Code-a-thons and shared creative spaces, may be the basic research labs of consumer engagement “drugs.” Read why Leonard Kish thinks they hold key insight that…
Out For Lunch: The Government Closes Down; Insurance Exchange Marketplace Opens
People take it for granted, but health IT professionals make it easier for the clinical staff to build trust with patients. Unfortunately, the current health…