The Case for Patient Centered Medical Home, Care Coordination and Population Health Wellness The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is changing the way patients, physicians and clinicians interact with our healthcare system. At first glance, creating affordable healthcare for all is an amazing yet daunting initiative. In actuality, however, patients are now finding it difficult to […]
Posts Tagged ‘connected health’
Google Health Fail Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Win
This morning one of my portal colleagues published a post that I wanted to share with our healthcare community. As you can see from the Twitter log below, we are quite passionate about portals and, more importantly, all of the business problems portals can solve within the healthcare industry. The article in question was written […]
What can health education learn from Netflix?
Last week I happened upon a journal article for the Annals of Internal Medicine entitled, “What Can Medical Education Learn from Facebook and Netflix?” The study was written under the pretense that the tools that are used to entertain medical students are far more sophisticated than the tools that are used to teach medical students. […]
Health plans adapt toward customer-based business model
According to Forrester: New regulations are driving changes through the US healthcare insurance industry. Care delivery and payment models bring new responsibilities and opportunities to impact healthcare quality and cost. This forces the businesses within this market to adopt customers-centric business practices. “2014 Technology Imperatives For US Healthcare Insurers” by Skip Snow, April 11, 2014 […]
#TexasHIMSS: Reaching Teens with Digital Health
During a breakout session at Texas HIMSS today, I attended “Reaching adolescents through electronic health portals: Lessons from the field” by Peggy B. Smith, MA, Ph.D. While I normally lean towards the positive in providing insights from these breakout sessions, being a presenter is no easy feat, I must start with a couple of not […]
Participatory Medicine Meets Participatory Design
Most times when the word “participatory” enters my lexicon it is closely followed by the word “medicine”. I’m a fan of participatory medicine. If you don’t believe me, then you can look here, or here, or here for written proof. Participatory medicine is a care model in where the role of the patient is active, […]
Improving Patient Experience – Not Just for Inpatient Settings
Medicare is basing hospital reimbursements on performance measures. Patient satisfaction determines 30% of the incentive payments, and improved clinical outcomes decide 70 percent (source). So, it is no surprise that the term “patient experience” is rolling off people’s tongues very matter-of-fact like. With the focus primarily on the hospital or inpatient setting, it’s easy to […]
The Social Support Group Coming to a Provider Near You
What are the benefits of online patient communities? I find myself answering this question quite a bit lately. It struck me this week that I have never answered this question on the blog. But, first things first, what is an online patient community? Online patient communities are, essentially, condition specific socially enabled support groups. These […]
Getting Scientific About Healthcare Social Media: Microblogs
In this blog series, we are highlighting the social media categories presented in “Social Media: A Review and Tutorial of Applications in Medicine and Health Care.” This was a study conducted by the University of British Columbia, which offers an extensive digest of the vast uses of social in medicine and healthcare. Today we’re going […]
Getting Scientific about Healthcare Social Media: Blogs
Earlier this month, I happened upon an actual scientific study of the use of social media in medicine and healthcare conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia. The study was fraught with terms such as “positivistic epistemologies” and “critical-interpretivist theory” to add the requisite ambiance one finds in such studies. All kidding aside, […]
Happily Ever After: The Benefits of Patient Engagement – #HIMSS14
Once upon a time last year, in a town not too far from you, there was a big hospital where a bright, young physician was providing care to a sick, old patient. Okay, let me save you some time. This fairytale, unlike those you are used to, doesn’t end simply by having Prince Charming (the […]
Can you predict my future? Predictive analytics at #HIMSS14
While my interest is always in the convergence of technology like the Internet of Things and healthcare IT, the role of sensors in managing health and wellness is just exploding. “The most popular device functionality in the wearable tech market is heart rate monitoring, with nearly 12 million such devices shipped in 2013. Pedometers and […]