This Week Health: Newsroom
951 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings“This Week Health: NewsRoom” showcases our commitment to transforming healthcare one connection at a time, providing a dedicated space for timely discussions on industry news. Featuring programs like Today in Health IT, Newsday, UnHack (the News), and This Week Health: Live; this channel caters to healthcare professionals who face the constant challenge of staying informed despite their demanding roles. Guided by the seasoned insights of CEO and Host Bill Russell, and co-hosts Drex DeFord and Sarah Richardson—all of whom have firsthand experience in the trenches of health IT leadership—this channel delivers concise updates and expert analysis to keep you informed in the rapidly evolving world of health technology. Subscribe today for a reliable source of current information, accessible wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Walmart Chooses Epic - Was There Even Another Option?
September 29, 2021 04:00 - 5 minutes - 4.91 MBWas there even another option? I don't think so. FTA Walmart today announced a new partnership with Epic, the most widely-used and comprehensive health records system, to help make it simple for customers to live healthier. Through this single, unified system, Walmart Health will engage patients, health care professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders while enhancing communication, personalization and information sharing amongst health care professionals and patients utilizing a...
Getting More Bandwidth by Addressing Inefficient Project Management
September 28, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 6.51 MBWhen you have 120 projects going at any point in time, little changes can free people up to be much more effective. Today we explore a simple approach.
Finding Margin in Health IT's Budget
September 27, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBNo story, just me sharing some thoughts on where you can create some margin in your IT resource plan. Let me know your thoughts.
Leadership Lessons from the FDNY post 9/11
September 24, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBThe FDNY could have defiantly restored itself to pre-9/11 operation. It could have sought comfort and triumph in pulling the old FDNY through the crucible of 9/11 and the days immediately following. Instead, FDNY leadership led the FDNY in looking at itself and in converting a tragedy of the very first order into an occasion for learning and changing, for preparing for an expanded role in an unknown future. So many great lessons, we explore some of them on Today's Show. FTA “There were a coup...
Apple Health and One Required Change to Information Blocking Rule
September 23, 2021 04:00 - 7 minutes - 7.03 MBThe possibility of Patient Directed Interoperability in Healthcare? Think it will happen? FTA Apple's health data-sharing feature is now live in the latest version of iOS, allowing some users to give their clinicians information from their phone's Health app via their electronic health records. The integration will https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/apple-adds-walking-stability-family-and-provider-health-sharing-and-more-wwdc-2021 (initially work) with six major EHR companies: Allscripts, a...
Human Error Still Top Cause of Security Breaches
September 22, 2021 21:46 - 7 minutes - 6.79 MBHuman error has been the source of most breaches since I can remember. What can be done about it? FTA The threat intelligence player drew on multiple data sources, including dark web analysis, pen-testing data, incident response cases and threat intelligence to compile the https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/WMDZOWK6 (2021 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report.) It revealed that attackers are actively looking to exploit weaknesses in enterprise protection, many of which come about ...
Deep Dive on Cross State Licensing for Telehealth
September 21, 2021 21:41 - 10 minutes - 9.5 MBWhy can't doctors practice telemedicine across state lines. That is a simple question with a complex answer. Today we explore this concept in depth.
FTC to Hold non-HIPAA Third Parties Feet to the Fire for PHI Disclosures
September 20, 2021 04:15 - 5 minutes - 4.04 MBFederal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001DmoQmZGawGFuIrtFSsppf_qjr-ms8700xt7tFnTAeFWg6WAYvOfQH6NmUt0XXq5SVg5ngdHQ3LV_f3OXUbBTgOgApWaSL0xw0H_LdDT7W5Xqam6nWCeTwBlXArhPwGKXHHXjOM09O17LJbsw9OlAKf06gxgn2Yn4O9lrKQneYVhfnmNA3qxl77jeLOjMxRk4xQh_GEYyW8DHDVkxADYJYY-PFI3Uo3HtGsDm_9WPF0dhAHhxEEAYJbatvYatn1VmsHwOHqqhkLhDGkxtIJHLnvs6jb6GUPXLPJuNN9gEa2m2jvieCHNri0IM0AuEl_3w_9-vh27puIw=&c=gNSKdKi7IxJnC9qBDlXigimvpt1enw9pgGSiRkknrlzLPDQ_1DwqSQ==&ch=F8np4XgtAaV0q_qqp41F0Vt-ynhOQn0fqLt...
Intermountain SCL Merger – What to Expect
September 17, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.42 MBIntermountain Healthcare and SCL Health, two leading nonprofit healthcare organizations, have signed a Letter of Intent to merge and create a model health system that provides high-quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare to more patients and communities in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Kansas. The merged health system will be headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a regional office in Broomfield, Colorado. Dr. Marc Harrison of Intermountain will serve as the presiden...
Intermountain SCL Merger - What to Expect
September 17, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.42 MBIntermountain Healthcare and SCL Health, two leading nonprofit healthcare organizations, have signed a Letter of Intent to merge and create a model health system that provides high-quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare to more patients and communities in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Kansas. The merged health system will be headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a regional office in Broomfield, Colorado. Dr. Marc Harrison of Intermountain will serve as the presid...
How Many Mistakes can You Spot in This Breach Report?
September 16, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.46 MBA playbook on what not to do in the event of a breach. - Get breached. Hey, I understand, it happens. - Negotiate and pay the attackers to destroy or not use the information. - Don't report it to all the people you are supposed to. - Use the least effective means to notify the 161,000 patients. Your website. That's it. - Only offer identify protection and services to 10% of the people deemed to be the most vulnerable to identity theft based on the information taken. Back to business as usual...
Apple Vulnerability Overshadows Apple’s New Products
September 15, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.83 MBI'm sure there will be more stories about Apple's new products than the emergency security update that was released on Monday. BTW, patch your iOS devices and Mac's. But this one just scares me a little. FTA Apple issued emergency software updates for a critical vulnerability in its products on Monday after security researchers uncovered a flaw that allows highly invasive spyware from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/world/middleeast/israel-nso-pegasus-spyware.html (Israel’s NSO Group) to i...
Apple Vulnerability Overshadows Apple's New Products
September 15, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes - 4.83 MBI'm sure there will be more stories about Apple's new products than the emergency security update that was released on Monday. BTW, patch your iOS devices and Mac's. But this one just scares me a little. FTA Apple issued emergency software updates for a critical vulnerability in its products on Monday after security researchers uncovered a flaw that allows highly invasive spyware from Israel’s NSO Group to infect anyone’s iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch or Mac computer without so much as a clic...
BlueJeans Demonstrates Powerful Telehealth Sharing Possibilities
September 14, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.87 MBBlueJeans Telehealth makes connection with Apple Health for patient to physician sharing of information. I like it and in today's episode we discuss why. https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/verizons-bluejeans-telehealth-integrates-apple-health (https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/verizons-bluejeans-telehealth-integrates-apple-health)
Big Tech is not Exiting Healthcare Anytime Soon
September 13, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.82 MBGoogle shook the healthcare world with their Google health reorg. Too much? You're probably right. What can we take from this? Is Big Tech Exiting Healthcare? Former Amazon Exec and Current Providence Digital Health Leader Aaron Martin says, no. FTA Amazon will do well in DTC pharma, OTC, and at some point, pharmacy benefit management. The jury is out on care delivery via Amazon Care because it’s really complex. That said, Amazon, when committed, is the most successful tech company in...
Protecting our Patients from Rogue Personal Health Applications
September 10, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.83 MBCHIME Wrote this recently in response to the proposed HIPAA rule change. We are concerned about the implications of proposals involving personal health applications (PHAs) calling for covered entities (CEs) to transmit electronic health information (EHI) to PHAs without requiring those PHAs to include privacy and security controls or sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs); Valid concern but the battle is over and PHAs accessing patient information on behalf of the patient is protecting by...
Protecting our Patients from Rogue Personal Health Applications
September 10, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.83 MBCHIME Wrote this recently in response to the proposed HIPAA rule change. We are concerned about the implications of proposals involving personal health applications (PHAs) calling for covered entities (CEs) to transmit electronic health information (EHI) to PHAs without requiring those PHAs to include privacy and security controls or sign Business Associate Agreements (BAAs); Valid concern but the battle is over and PHAs accessing patient information on behalf of the patient is protecting ...
Nurse Compensation and Retention and IT's Role
September 09, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6 MBNurse Compensation, are you kidding me, what a minefield. Well, my area is Health IT so I stay away from the topic directly and look at a few things Health IT can do about this challenge. --- Chris Caufiled posted this on Social Media $40k Sign-On Bonus. This sounds too good to be true... The listed hospital is in South Dakota. The lowest-paying State for Nurses in the US. Are they trying to put Bandaid on a hemorrhaging wound? What are your thoughts? --- Well I had a few thought ...
Amazon Eyes Expansion of in-Person Care in 20 More Cities
September 08, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.54 MBWe heard it again a few weeks back. Big Tech is pulling back from healthcare, it's just too hard for them. Do we really believe that? What if I asked a healthcare company to build out a next day delivery service for just about everything that exists on the planet, think they would be successful? Are we really smarter than big tech because we are an entrenched incumbent in one of the most complex labyrinths of payment models, special interests, and regulatory requirements. Probably not, w...
CIO's Demonstrate the Power of Asking the Right Questions
September 07, 2021 14:00 - 8 minutes - 6.07 MBWhat questions are you trying to answer for your health system. Here are the questions five current CIOs have prioritized for their health systems. FTA Lisa Dykstra CIO of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - As the role of the CIO continues to expand and grow in complexity, how are you preparing your teams and organizations for the future of healthcare? BJ Moore CIO of Providence - How do we continue accelerating the adoption of advanced technologies (such as machine learn...
Zoom's Head of Healthcare Answers Questions
September 03, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.92 MBWhere have you prioritized the integration of telehealth into care delivery? FTA Recent Zoom research found that in the U.S., 72% of survey respondents want to attend healthcare appointments both virtually and in-person post-pandemic, demonstrating the clear need for telehealth as an option for this hybrid approach to healthcare. One area that is particularly well-suited for this is psychiatry and psychotherapy. With online therapy, providers can meet with patients far from their physical o...
Microsoft's Geothermal Building - Cool - And Another Reason For Cloud
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MBWant to know why everything is going to go to the cloud eventually. Because you can do what Microsoft is doing at your hospital. FTA A major new building is rising on the expansion of Microsoft’s corporate campus outside of Seattle. Unlike other recent architectural escapades from tech companies, it’s not a circular spaceship or a swirling glass mountain or even a starchitect-designed indoor-outdoor park. Microsoft’s new building is an energy plant. The Thermal Energy Center is the unlikely...
Microsoft’s Geothermal Building – Cool – And Another Reason For Cloud
September 02, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MBWant to know why everything is going to go to the cloud eventually. Because you can do what Microsoft is doing at your hospital. FTA A major new building is rising on the https://news.microsoft.com/modern-campus/ (expansion of Microsoft’s corporate campus) outside of Seattle. Unlike other recent architectural escapades from tech companies, it’s not a https://www.fastcompany.com/90125544/6-absurd-and-kinda-brilliant-design-details-from-apple-park (circular spaceship) or a https://www.fastcompa...
An argument for Return to the Office
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.31 MBWhat is the best work environment for your health system? How would I know, ask your staff? Oh and by the way, the author of this article and the 1,000 other posts I see on social media can't tell you the right answer to that question either. FTA A few firms, most notably Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, have recently moved to return their employees to the office https://www.wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-goldman-call-time-on-work-from-home-their-rivals-are-ready-to-pounce-11625563800 (full-time). The...
The Data is in on Telehealth
August 31, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 6.95 MB87.7M Telehealth Claims from Oct 2019 to Dec 2020. What did we learn? Behavioral and Mental Health had 5 times the volume of telehealth claims over the second condition. Most of telehealth is delivered in-state More telehealth was done over zoom than the plain old telephone. Providers largely believe the quality of care is improved with the use of telehealth The smartphone camera is still the most used remote sensor in use And of course, telehealth played a significant role during the pan...
A Hole in Microsofts Azure Cloud DB, Patched Yet?
August 30, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.21 MBThe characteristics of the cloud make it incredibly powerful for business, however when a vulnerability is present those characteristics magnify the potential impact. FTA Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases, according to a copy of the email and a cyber security researcher. --- #healthcare #healthIT #cio #cmio...
NYU Langone, Agility by Design During the Pandemic
August 27, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.04 MBWhy can some health systems respond quicker to the changing demands of healthcare. IT architecture that is selected for agility. FTA Because of its investment in this foundational technology, NYU Langone in New York City was able to quickly scale its digital solutions, not only to meet clinical demand, but also to develop ways for patients to access care despite the physical restrictions inherent in various pandemic protocols. NYU Langone experienced significant growth in digital engagement...
Reinforcements Are Arriving, Making Sure Health IT is Ready
August 26, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.47 MBReinforcements are arriving. Welcome news, now let's get them setup. FTA Oregon will deploy "crisis teams" of hundreds of nurses, respiratory therapists, paramedics and nursing assistants to regions of the state hardest hit by a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations that have stretched hospitals to the limit, Gov. Kate Brown said Wednesday. COVID-19 hospitalizations have increased 990% in Oregon since July 9, according to health officials. Under the contract, response teams will head to cent...
API-Driven Claims Adjudication, Brought to you By 21st Century Cures
August 25, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.75 MBWould this project have been done without the 21st Century Cures Act? FTA Anthem, Humana and SS&C Technologies have entered into a joint venture named DomaniRx to develop a claims adjudication and pharmacy benefits manager cloud platform, according to documents filed by SS&C Technologies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. PBMs receive and store massive amounts of data in their function of claims adjudication. The use of an Application Programming Interface, or API, allows applicat...
School Telehealth Programs for Rural Health
August 24, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.68 MBA Successful School Telehealth Program in Rural Health. Thought I would share it on Today in Health IT. FTA Rose Ghattas, RN, virtual health coordinator for Blessing Health System, spoke about her efforts to do that during the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition session "Piloting a School Telehealth Program in a Rural Community." The session was co-presented by Joseph DeVivo, president, hospital and health systems at Teladoc Health, which partnered with Blessing on the initiati...
Funding Cyber Security a Narrative for Your Board
August 23, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.1 MBHow I would use this information to fund my Health Systems Cyber Program. FTA A massive cyberattack May 1 cost Scripps Health $112.7 million through the end of June, with lost revenue bearing most of the cost. The attack led to a major disruption in patient care and forced providers to use paper records. Scripps said at the time that its facilities remained open for care but hasn’t until now divulged the financial impact of the attack. Scripps restored all its systems May 26 after hiring co...
Why is the Healthcare Digital Revolution in Pilot Stage?
August 20, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.84 MBWhy is the Healthcare Digital Revolution in Pilot Stage? FTA Tom Kiesau, senior partner with the Chartis Group, who talked about the findings from surveying 220 executives on such issues as digital health, machine learning and AI. Fifty-two percent (52%) have not progressed beyond pilot stages for digital integration, but understand the need for digital transformation, Kiesau said. Close to half (47%) cite digital as a top organizational priority, and 80% plan to increase their digital inve...
Conferences, Who's Winning, Who's Losing, Who Cares?
August 19, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MBI get asked some version of the Who's winning the Healthcare conference race on a weekly basis. To be honest, I don't care. Each one has a place an a certain type of value. FTA HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf said the organization was "thrilled with the numbers" of participants in this year's HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition and raised the possibility of continuing with a joint digital and in-person approach going forward. --- My so what. HIIMSS is down from it's 40,000 numb...
Suja Chandrasekaran, Shares Common Spirits Framework for Digital 2.0
August 18, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.19 MBDigital transformation is reshaping how the health care industry engages with patients and care providers. The first set of initiatives in Digital Health have been focused on developing point capabilities for specific use cases.These solutions shifted digital capabilities to the next level, provided online access points for patient interaction and addressed key issues in patient experience. However one key opportunity was that they only provided discrete patient experiences: ● From each p...
McKinsey Top Tech Trends Shaping Our Future
August 17, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MBWhen you combine these trends the pace of change in every industry over the next decade is going to be incredible. McKinsey released their top tech trends across all industries. Cross Industry 1. Next Level Process Automation - Industrial IoT, Robotics, RPA 2. Future of Connectivity - 5G and IoT Connectivity 3. Distributed Infrastructure - Cloud and Edge Computing 4. Next Generation Computing - Quantum Computing 5. Applied AI - Computer Vision, NLP, and Speech tech 6. Future of Programming ...
The Impact of the Pandemic on Higher Ed as a Proxy for Healthcare
August 16, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5 MBCould the equivalent be happening in healthcare right now? FTA American colleges and universities recorded their largest drop in cash inflows in decades this past academic year, thanks to a big drop in enrollment and a lack of room-and-board revenue from the students who did enroll but took their courses online. But that was just the start. Now that a generation of would-be applicants has grown used to online learning, the business of higher education will likely never be the same again. m...
Telehealth - What Does Better Look like?
August 13, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 7.5 MBWhat does better telehealth look like from a provider? I'm not sure the question can be answered until we know our starting point and desired destination. This is from an article that covered a recent panel discussion on the topic at HIMSS21 FTA "Everyone had a similar experience during the early days of COVID. We all rushed into digital, and now we are watching and looking at the trends and seeing a drop-off in utilization across a lot of health systems," Tom Kiesau, director and digital ...
What can Healthcare Learn from Netflix?
August 12, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.88 MBWhat can healthcare learn from Netflix? FTA As it turns out, healthcare can learn a lot from the streaming giant, particularly when it comes to engagement. When Netflix began, it offered DVD-by-mail services that engaged with its user base on a monthly or perhaps weekly basis. This is analogous to the typical approach of healthcare providers, which is to touch base with patients only a couple of times in a given year. Flash forward to today, and Netflix engages with its users on a daily ba...
COVID 19 by the Numbers August 10th 2021
August 11, 2021 08:00 - 13 minutes - 9.6 MBSometimes you have to just look at the numbers and not trust every tweet you read. The pandemic is being experienced regionally not nationally. To look at heat maps would indicate case counts and ICU capacity are very different depending on where you live. You can take almost any number out of context and make a firestorm on Twitter but what are we really experiencing right now. Today we look at the numbers in detail.
Walmart's Addressing the Cost of Healthcare in a Meaningful Way, Again
August 10, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.08 MBWhen is the last time a health system cut the cost of healthcare and passed it onto the consumer, the patient, the members of their community? Just asking for a friend. FTA Walmart has launched the first private brand analog insulin with a steep discount saving 59% and 75% respectively on the current cash price of branded insulin products when not using insurance. It is a real innovation and a dramatic step by Walmart to make insulin affordable to more people. About 34 million Americans li...
Google's Healthcare Data Engine - Building the Longitudinal Patient Record
August 09, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.77 MBGoogle is piloting its healthcare data engine, a tool intended to build longitudinal patient records and pull in data from multiple sources. Early work with Mayo Clinic served as a foundation for the technology. More on Today's Show.
2 More Cyber Attacks, Is Your Health System Next?
August 06, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.31 MB2 More Attacks on Hospitals FTA Leaders at UC San Diego Health released a notice on July 27 that they “recently experienced a security event involving unauthorized access to some employee email accounts.” According to ZDNet, “From December 2, 2020 to April 8, 2021, hackers had access to data including names, addresses, claims information, laboratory results, medical diagnosis and conditions, Medical Record Numbers and other medical identifiers, prescription information, treatment infor...
Making Your Next Career Move?
August 05, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 5.06 MBSome things to consider. Making a career move is a team sport. Who is on your team? Who is helping you to evaluate the next move? What expectations do they have for the role? Can you clearly articulate what is expected of you in the role? What metric is most tied to your success, failure? What would the perfect role be for you? What are the characteristics of that perfect role? How many of those characteristics are present in your next role? Today we look at some people who have made ...
HIMSS 2021 - What's Your Plan?
August 04, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.98 MBWhat did we do before conferences? Who can remember? FTA HIMSS21 to require masks for all attendees As previously announced, proof of full COVID-19 vaccination is also required for attendees, exhibitors, speakers and staff. According to HIMSS, more than 18,000 people have registered for the digital and in-person experience, with new registrations continuing to roll in. HIMSS21 will also include the following safety protocols, according to the organization: All primary venues within t...
Did your Healthcare Organization Get Better at Cybersecurity Yesterday?
August 03, 2021 14:00 - 8 minutes - 5.85 MBCynergisTek’s Annual Report Finds Two-Thirds of Health Systems Failing at Cybersecurity Preparation The report identified several areas for continued improvement in planning and preparedness, especially seeing as only 75% improved during the coronavirus pandemic – even then only slightly. While that is progress, it isn’t the progress the industry needs to shore up defenses. Investing in security, in the long run, is often ultimately more cost effective than paying the recent exorbitant r...
Google Care Studio Making the Clinicians EHR Experience Better
August 02, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.03 MBGoogle Care Studio sits above the EHR layer and strives to make the clinicians experience better. FTA When applying this approach to Care Studio, Google's solution for bringing health records together, we designed the product around a few key principles that put clinicians first. First, we wanted to make the time spent between doctors and their patients more valuable, productive and human. Second, we wanted to avoid the temptation to build something that was only incrementally better than wa...
Microsoft's 2021 Work Trends is Out, How are We Doing?
July 30, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.98 MBWhat you need to know The 2021 Work Trend Index is here. It predicts that 41% of workers are considering leaving their current employers. It estimates 64% of new employees with less than one year under their belts are struggling in their positions. Imagine, 41% of the people on your next teams call may be looking for work elsewhere. That could be a little disruptive. #healthcare #healthIT #cio #cmio #himss #chime https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work
HHS Signals Price Transparency is Back on with Stiff Penalties
July 29, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.88 MBIt appears the Biden administration is going to continue on with the Trump administration transparency work. FTA “No medical entity should be able to throttle competition at the expense of patients,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, in a news release. “I have fought anti-competitive practices before, and strongly believe healthcare must be in reach for everyone. With today’s proposed rule, we are simply showing hospitals through stiffer penalties: concealing the costs of services and proce...
Psychographics, Don't do Patient Engagement Without It
July 28, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 5.06 MBDemographics describe facts about a person in this moment and vary over time. Psychographics describe why a person makes the decisions they do and persist over time. You're psychographic profile determines how you make decisions with regard to health. Who's input you value, how much time you spend on health and the priority you place on certain activities. I'm reviewing this report from Trilliant Health that is free to download and it is loaded with great content to consider. In the Psych...
Is In-Hospital Telehealth an Oxymoron?
July 27, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.11 MBClearly it is not, we've been doing in-hospital telehealth programs well before COVID. Telestroke, TelePhyschiatry. The question becomes where can we go from here. FTA However, what happens after COVID? Years ago, I looked at data from my own hospital, a national center of excellence for neurological care. In the span of a single year, we treated roughly 1000 patients, about 3 per day, transferred to us from other hospitals by ambulance or helicopter that were then discharged within 48 ...