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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Key Takeaways from Epic UGM 2012 with CMIO Dr. Luis Saldana at Texas Health Resources
Dr. Luis Saldana, MD, MBA, FACEP , Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Texas Health Resources shares his key takeaways from Epic UGM 2012
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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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3 Steps to Developing the Right Population Health Management Programs
Cynthia Kilroy, senior vice president of Provider Strategy and Business Development at OptumHealth discusses 3 required steps to developing the right population health management programs
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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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10 Ways to Make EMR Meaningful and Useful
Written by Rob Lamberts, MD providing his thoughts on 10 ways to make EMR meaningful and useful
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5 Strengths That Women Executives Bring To The Redesign Of The Patient Experience
Dr. Bridget Duffy, MD, Chief Experience Officer, Experia Health shares 5 strengths women executives bring to the redesign of the patient experience.
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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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