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Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February 2020 that is dominated by the Coronavirus (aka COVID-19) outbreak and discusses the upcoming HIMSS Conference You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with […]
Coronavirus The statistics are jarring – as of the latest update from WHO of 77,794 confirmed (599 new) cases globally with the majority coming from China with 2,348 deaths in China and 11 outside of China. The fatality rate in the point of origin (Wuhan China) is between 2-4% but outside of this region fatality […]
The End of Theory? This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January 2020 and my attendance at CES and You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics […]
How to Identify the Right Patient (and Whisky) With only a few weeks to go to the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando I took the opportunity to catch up with Vince Vitali, the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Nextgate to review the current trends and hear about their special event planned at the […]
Easing Frustration I get frustrated even though I try hard to not. Most of the day I amble along quietly absorbing the ups and downs, but that all comes to a screeching halt when I interact with some telephone systems and support. Not all are bad but some are so bad that by the time […]
There Is No Simple Solution to Healthcare Costs This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2019 and closes out the year You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your […]
Open Clinical Systems This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can […]
The recent “cloud deal” signed between Ascension and Google has raised a lot of discussion and concern over the privacy of patients data – in this case perhaps as many as 50 million patients. You can get a good sense of the background and details from this piece on CNBC Google’s hospital data-sharing deal raises […]
This week I am talking with Jacob Reider, MD (@JacobR), CEO of Alliance For Better Health (@Alliance_PPS), a New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) care transformation initiative. Dr. Reider is a family physician who wants the world to be more healthy – a man after my own heart! He previously served as the Deputy National […]
Data Sharing and Clinical Sleuthing This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. […]
All Engines Running Out of the 195 hours of flight time (a little over 8 days) for Apollo 11 and the crew, it was the approximately 13 minutes it took for the Lunar Module or “Eagle” to descend and land on the moon that was the most taxing on the systems, the astronauts and the […]
National Patient Identifier This week I am talking to Dan Cidon (@dcidon), Chief Technology Officer at NextGate (@Nextgate) who is a mechanical engineer by training but found himself on a path of identification of people in the support of the delivery of healthcare. We talked about what some consider a “third-rail” topic – a national patient identifier. […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Thomas Cook Closed for Business How does a company in business for over 170 years suddenly go out of business? Thomas Cook revolutionized travel doing amazing things to increase access inventing the package holiday or tour. At one point it seemed like every high street had a Thomas Cook Office on it featuring the latest […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Is Turmeric a Wonder Drug Thanks to one of my viewers for the request to cover the spice Turmeric. There’s certainly plenty of interest in the compound with 100’s of registered trials consuming large amounts of investigational resources with claims of reducing inflammation, dementia and Alzheimer’s, heart disease, depression, and cancer. Wow! But should you […]
How do We Validate Innovation Talking with Linda Riddell, Poverty Educator and in charge of validation reviews at the Validation Institute at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). The validation institute is used by vendors with outcomes, promises, and results that they are offering and they check the claim. They check the claims, the source, and reliability of […]
No More Sneakernet This week I am talking to Kevin McGrail (@KAMcGrail), Director of Business Growth at Infrashield and one of a few patients suffering from a rare disease “Anti DPPx Paraneoplastic Neurological Disorder” (you can read more about these diseases here) – one of only a handful of patients diagnosed with this. Kevin is […]
Virtual Pharmacists I spoke with Mark Engelen, CEO & Co-Founder for RxLive at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building RxLive is working on amplifying the collaborative care model by making pharmacists live into the care process and coordination. They have a platform and a service […]
The Morass of Healthcare in the United States Reading through the litany of challenges in healthcare on a daily basis is depressing. That is unless you are in one of the fortunate groups that have healthcare coverage that actually pays those bills and doesn’t cost so much to be unaffordable. So who manages to get […]
It was a real privilege to catch Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, (@RosenthalHealth, author of “An American Sickness”) after her presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. I asked her what the average consumer should be […]
This week I am talking to several guests live at HIMSS 2019 Rasu Shrestha, MD EVP & Chief Strategy Officer Atrium Health (@RasuShrestha), R. Hal Baker, MD SVP, CIO Wellspan, and Aneesh Chopra, President, CareJourney (@aneeshchopra) Listen in to hear their thoughts on the latest innovations at HIMSS, what’s coming, the importance of shared values, bringing the humanity […]
Keys to Successful Conferences How do you describe the CNS Summit and what it offers – the word impossible springs to mind? Even the name can be a little misleading especially for medical folks who might look at that and think “Central Nervous System” but actually its stands for Collaborating for Novel Solutions This coming […]
The Bluebutton Innovator This week I am talking to Mark Scrimshire (@eKiveMark) a fellow Walking Gallery member and Entrepreneur in Residence at NewWave and on assignment as Medicare Blue Button 2.0 Innovator at CMS where he is designing and implementing the new API to enable 53 million Medicare Beneficiaries to share their claims information with the […]
Getting to Nationwide Interoperability Unfortunately, the existing healthcare system incentives behavior that is in opposition to the goal of scalable, nationwide, vendor-neutral interoperability. Our model has multiple groups who have a vested interest in the control and ownership of data (for example Payors, Providers, Patients). Each has their own economic and commercial drivers and in […]
