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Beyond the Smart Home: The Health Hub of the Future

by Stuart Karten, Principal of Karten Design 03/09/2016 Leave a Comment

Home Sweet Home The Health Hub of the Future

Editor's Note: This article is based a panel discussion taking place onMarch 11, 2016 at SXSW Interactive, titled, “Home, Sweet Home: The Health Hub of the Future.” For more information, click here.   Almost every day, we see announcements about yet another “connected” product that is hailed as creating a “smarter” home environment. These types of products promise an easier, more convenient way of living, but they aren’t always connected to our lives—or all that smart.  But there is an important
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How to Leverage Psychology to Build Persuasive Solutions for Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 03/08/2016 Leave a Comment

How to Leverage Psychology to Build Persuasive Solutions for Healthcare

Editor's Note: Mike Wiseman is the CTO of Next IT Healthcare, a company that helps healthcare organizations drive lasting behavior change and improved patient outcomes. “Patient engagement” and “technology” have become so intertwined over the past few years that the distinction between them is now problematically blurred. Patient engagement, while a popular buzzword in health technology circles, has always been an area of great focus for the health sector. From physicians to big pharma, we’ve
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Is Telemedicine The Key To Making Addiction Treatment Work?

by Our Thought Leaders 03/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Telemedicine

Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry  relations —  with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems In a world where only the wealthy suffered from addiction, we wouldn’t have to worry so much about the
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5 Strategies for Maintaining A Healthy Revenue Cycle During An EMR Transition

by Our Thought Leaders 03/07/2016 1 Comment

5 Strategies for Maintaining A Healthy Revenue Cycle During An EMR Transition

  Editor's Note: This post is written by David Dyke, VP of Product Management and Carmen Sessoms, CHFP, FHFMA Assistant VP of Product Management at RelayHealth Financial.  You’ve heard the horror stories. Now hear how making clinical and financial data “inseparable” can help ensure a smooth migration that doesn’t blow up the revenue cycle. Your EMR migration can cost you twice. But the second cost is avoidable if you know where to look and what to do. The first cost is obvious.
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Consumer Engagement: The Quest for the Holy Grail

by Our Thought Leaders 02/24/2016 Leave a Comment

consumer engagement holy grail

Editor's Note: Ryan Rossier is the VP of Product Innovation at digital health firm Medullan that specializes in amazing user experience. Realizing results by delivering the right information, at the right time, in the right way - remains the elusive holy grail of consumer engagement. A new study published by Accenture Life Sciences shows that only one out of every five patients is aware of the number and type of therapeutic services available to them after diagnosis.   The study found
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What is the Relationship Between Precision Medicine & Predictive Analytics?

by Our Thought Leaders 02/22/2016 Leave a Comment

BaseHealth Precision Medicine_Predictive Analytics 1

Editor's Note: Prakash Menon is the CEO at Basehealth, a science and technology leader that adds genomic precision to predictive analytics and population health management. Let’s not bury the lead. It’s finally possible to effectively model diseases and predict risk, based on an individual’s unique clinical, lifestyle, environmental and genetic data. True predictive analytics for healthcare have arrived at long last. Back to The Future Historical medical information that resides in
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Is CMS Efforts Enough to Transform Rural Healthcare?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 02/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Rural Healthcare

Imagine you’re living in Brooklyn and you have a medical emergency. If the hospital nearest you, say Lutheran Medical Center, were to close, you could go to Maimonides or New York Methodist a short taxi or ambulance ride away. Now, let’s say you’re badly injured and you live outside rural Tulare, California, in one of the most productive agricultural counties in the U.S. If Tulare Regional Medical Center went away, you might have to life flight to Bakersfield, Los Angeles or the Bay Area.
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Why Obama’s Moonshot to Cure Cancer Is Unrealistic

by Our Thought Leaders 02/16/2016 1 Comment

Why Obama’s Moonshot to Cure Cancer Is Unrealistic

Editor's Note: Larry Altshuler, M.D. is the author of Doctor, Say What?: An Insider's Scoop To Getting The Best Medical Care. He is a practicing Internist, Hospitalist and Integrative practitioner at a major cancer center in the Midwest. In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a “moonshot” program to conquer cancer. Such a program is not new: in the wake of the euphoria of sending a man to the moon, in 1971, the U.S. government declared war on cancer. To a great
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What Is The Financial Impact of Value Based Healthcare for Physicians?

by Margalit Gur-Arie 02/15/2016 Leave a Comment

Value-Based Health Care is Antithetic to Patient-Centered Care_ Value-based Care in Oncology

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is working hard to transition physicians’ payments from volume to value of services. The current Acting Administrator at CMS is a former top executive at United Healthcare, a commercial health insurance corporation. The previous Administrator at CMS is currently the president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), which is the dominant health insurance lobbying group. It may therefore behoove us to rephrase the opening sentence:
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Breaking into the Health IT Industry: The 2016 Unofficial Guide

by Our Thought Leaders 02/12/2016 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Breach Report 2016

  Editor's Note: Cherie Lester is a Senior Healthcare IT Recruiter with Holland Square Group , a provider of technology and healthcare IT consulting, strategic staffing, outsourcing and professional search solutions. Lester has over 15 years of recruitment experience in the health IT industry and writes regularly about the job search and application process for HCIT professionals on her site, EngageMeHIT. Follow her on Twitter at @EngageMeHIT.  I receive multiple calls and
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