Healthy Startups founder, Jason Berek-Lewis outlines 5 reasons why your consumer health app will fail to change behavior
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Shocking News – EHRs Work As Designed
EHRs work as designed when Medicare has defined the value of a doctor visit to be proportional to the amount of text generated during the visit
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Buy vs. Build, or the Best of Both for Healthcare IT Systems?
When it comes to healthcare IT systems decisions, healthcare organizations often ask a key question: Should we buy it or should we build it ourselves?
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5 Common Threads of Success for Consumer Health and Medical Apps
David Lee Scher, MD outlines how the success of consumer health and medical apps rely solely on these five fundamental threads that will ultimately determine their success
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3 Terms of Healthcare Verbal Wizardry
Three terms of healthcare verbal wizardry that serve as a tool for resetting our expectations from a profit driven health care system run amok
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Why Being a Quick Learner in Healthcare IT Doesn’t Matter
A Healthcare IT recruiter's frustrating perspective on candidates who are not a good fit for a particular HIT position who feel that being a "quick learner" will help them overcome this roadblock
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard [perfect_quotes id="8122"] in my recruitment career I could retire right now. It seems to be a theme when someone is told that they do not have the right qualifications for the role they have applied for. Now I'm not completely lacking compassion. It is
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“Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century”
First posted on Forbes.com 09/09/12. The insight of the year goes to Leonard Kish, a health IT strategy consultant, for making that statement regarding patient engagement. The corollary to this statement is a game changer: What happens when effective patient engagement becomes the Standard of Care?
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11 Reasons Why Our Healthcare System is So $&@%#! Up
Written by Jonathan Govette, CEO of ReferralMD describes 11 reasons why he feels the healthcare system is messed up and why
Pardon the expletives, I have been wanting to share some thoughts and frustrations about healthcare system that I have seen arise over the last few years. The United States healthcare system is completely broken; it has become a huge money pit, with insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations and greedy lawyers at the bottom filling their pockets. Mind you, I do
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Career: Applying Online ~ AKA The Resume Blackhole
Contributed by Cherie Lester, Senior Healthcare IT Recruiter at Holland Square Group offers her insights when applying online AKA the resume blackhole
How many times have you applied through a company web site never to hear a response? Perhaps you've applied through a company web site and received a call from a recruiter months later after you've already landed a new position? These scenarios are all too common, particularly in the Healthcare industry. Applying through a hospital web site can
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The Awkward Adolescence of Healthcare IT
No one can deny that healthcare is at a crossroads. Current thought leaders like Atul Gawande and Richard Baron have proposed that history will label our current time period as the “healthcare revolution”. The introduction and adoption of electronic medical records will have an impact no less powerful than the cotton gin had during the industrial revolution.
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