Gaming the System
This post was originally published by The Health Care Blog on February 11.
As physicians ready themselves for the future of medicine under onerous MACRA regulations, it seems appropriate to glance into the future and visualize the medical utopia anticipated by so many. Value-based care, determined by statistical analysis, is going to replace fee for service.
Six months ago, I received my first set of statistics from a state Medicaid plan and was told my ER utilization numbers were on the higher end compared to most practices in the region. This was perplexing as my patients tend to avoid ER visits at all cost...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Medicaid Source Type: blogs
Heart Month: Disruptive Woman Dr. Bernadette Melnyk Shares Her Story
This post was originally published by the Women’s Heart Alliance on February 10.
When people ask how I became interested in health and wellness, I have to tell them about the tragedy that forever changed my life.
My mom had a stroke right in front of me and died when I was home alone with her at age 15. She had a history of headaches and saw her family physician one week before she died. My mom was diagnosed with high blood pressure and given a prescription for a high blood pressure medication that my dad found in her purse after she died. As you can imagine, this traumatic event had a major impact and left me suffering...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Health Professions Health Reform Wellness Women Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Health Care Worries Top Terrorism, By Far, In Americans ’ Minds
This article was originally published in www.healthpopuli.com on February 8, 2017.
Health care is the top concern of American families, according to a Monmouth University Poll conducted in the week prior to Donald Trump’s Presidential inauguration.
Among U.S. consumers’ top ten worries, eight in ten directly point to financial concerns — with health care costs at the top of the worry-list for 25% of people. Health care financial worries led the second place concern, job security and unemployment, by a large margin (11 percentage points) In third place was “everyday bills,” the top concern for 12% of U.S. adul...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Affordable Healthcare Act Consumer Health Care Coverage Policy Disparities Health Reform Insurance Personalized Medicine Source Type: blogs
Super Bowl 2017
Founder and CEO SageMy™Life.
Regardless of whether your team won, you’ve no doubt been delighted, entertained and inspired by the commercials that aired last night. There are too many I liked to pick a favorite, but in the spirit of this blogspace, I yield my time and give my vote to Audi.
It’s a beautiful statement, to which I’ll add this. May he never have to explain to her:
Why she must pay more for access to health care than the men around her;
Why she – and not her male relatives or work colleagues – will need to leave the workforce to be an unpaid family caregiver, suffering a loss of income and retireme...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Coverage Policy Disparities Health Reform Insurance Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hostels for Hope: Easing the Burden for Women with Cancer
This article was originally published on www.impatientoptimists.org on February 2, 2017.
Sarah* is a 46-year-old mother of five and a cervical cancer survivor living in Tanzania. Survival wasn’t easy. She had to travel over 300 miles from her village to one of only two treatment facilities in the entire country; once she got there, she had no place to stay. Like Sarah, many of the over 10,000 Tanzanian women diagnosed with cervical or breast cancer each year face two major challenges – how to pay for transportation to the capital, Dar es Salaam, and where to stay for the duration of their treatment. For some women, t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Career Comparative Effectiveness Research Disparities Global Development Global Health Health Reform Patients Patients' Rights Publc Health Quality Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Misconceptions and Questions about Public Health Tech
1. What is public health tech anyway?
Public Health Tech, is any tech product or tech-enabled service that prevents the onset of disease or addresses the needs of medically vulnerable populations. This is an emerging niche of Digital Health growing due to the collision of digital health and public health. This collision has been catalyzed by two expanding pressures:
Digital health failures: After a five year boom, 2016 was not a kind year to digital health. According to Rock Health, digital health VC funding made a slight dip to $4.2 billion after a record $4.5 billion in 2015. The overwhelming sense is that the party wa...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health IT Source Type: blogs
17 Disruptive Women to Watch in 2017
Today, we are proud to launch our 17 Disruptive Women to Watch in 2017. As is our custom and commitment to our thesis—Disruptive Women seeks to highlight women from a broad cross-section of disciplines, all of whom profoundly impact health and health care. This year we are doing something different. Given the enormity of the issues we are facing globally, when it comes to Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias, we are focusing this year’s class of extraordinary women on those who are committed to ridding the world of this scourge. Lest you think this affects only the elderly (whatever that means), have a look at...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Women Source Type: blogs
Driving Progress in 2017
This article was originally published on January 26, 2017 in www.wewontwaitcampaign.org.
In the United States, a change of administration always brings uncertainty. With new leaders entering Congress and the White House, we at WA2 know we can turn that uncertainty into opportunity. Opportunity because we know finding a cure for Alzheimer’s and alleviating its burden on families can bring us together. WA2 is committed to continuing to lead a campaign to promote women’s brain health and fight against Alzheimer’s. 2017 is a critical year in our battle to stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks by 2020.
We are confident in th...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Health IT Health Reform Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Women Heads to the White House Tomorrow
For Throwback Thursday we go back to our visit to the White House. This post was originally published January 7, 2016.
How perfect is this? Eight years after Disruptive Women launched, we were invited by HHS to collaborate on an important White House event. We have been hard at work getting ready for the big day. After all, it’s the White House Men’s Health Dialogue.
That’s right, men’s health. Kudos to HHS and the White House for not only recognizing and focusing on the many health-related challenges men face, but extra props for recognizing the power of women to provide expertise, solutions, and insights....
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Health Care For All — Only Better, US Consumers Tell Consumer Reports
This article was originally published on January 23, 2017, in http://www.healthpopuli.com/.
Availability of quality healthcare, followed by affordable care, are the top two issues concerning U.S. consumers surveyed just prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th U.S. President. Welcome to Consumer Reports profile of Consumer Voices, As Trump Takes Office, What’s Top of Consumers’ Minds?
“Healthcare for All, Only Better,” Consumer Reports summarizes as the top-line finding of the research. 64% of people are confident of having access to good healthcare, but 55% aren’t sure they can afford healthcare i...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Affordable Healthcare Act Insurance Source Type: blogs
There Will Never Be a New World Order Until Women Are a Part of It
This article was was originally posted on January 22, 2017, in Venture Valkyrie.
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”
—Alice Paul
It has been, not just for me but for many, national women’s month. Maybe it’s not officially proclaimed as such, but it has just worked out that way.
It started for me the second week of January at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. What has been notable about this conference in past years is the absence of women. I even wrote about this in 2011 in a post called, “Alas, No Line for the Ladies Room,” in which I lamented the stunning absence of my s...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Navigating Uncertainty: Disruptive Women Style
A Disruptive Women Luncheon
Women spend much of their time learning to work around, work through and work directly on difficult challenges, be they work related, political (large and small p), accessing capital, work/life balance (whatever that means). The one constant we know is uncertainty. 2017 is unfolding to be a year of enormous uncertainty in every dimension of the word. Who better to share tips on navigating through waves of uncertainty than women who know how to throw on a life preserver (and matching shoes) and get stuff done. Join our global panel of experts for a spirited conversation. Lunch included.
February ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fighting the injustice of health disparities: Honoring the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Dr. John M. Eisenberg
For the past several years I have run this post and just as it was those years, it is this year a very important message.
We, as a nation, have made progress and I believe Dr. King would be proud. But our work is far from complete – particularly where health care is concerned. Another doctor, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, a physician of tremendous stature whose life was also tragically cut short (not by an assassin’s bullet but by brain cancer) was equally passionate about the dignity of life and justice for all Americans. Dr. Eisenberg, who among other things, served as the Director of the Agency for Health Care Policy and R...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Choice Source Type: blogs
Digital Health, Destiny and Doritos
This post was originally published on January 8, 2017 on Venture Valkyrie.
It’s the first of the new year and of course that can mean only one thing: the avalanche of stories about how much was or wasn’t invested in digital health and whether the current environment favors/disfavors growth in this sector and all that jazz.
It used to be, once upon a time, that the advent of the new year meant all things biotech as JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference rolled into town, but no longer. The “digital health” concept and all it sweeps in with it has become as popular as the biotech talk just like Kanye/Kim have swept...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 9, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Health IT Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer ’s Patients and Caregivers: Brain Breakdowns in Tandem
An Alzheimer’s patient’s brain is not the only one broken-down by the disease. The caregiver’s brain is, as well. How could it not?
Consider soon-to-be-caregiver, Margaret, in this MindMap of her life. She is not a real person by the way, but this picture of her life is based on real people and might be a lot like yours. Like many today, she is busy, time-crunched and already on “cognitive overload” as a working wife and mother with a home, three children, a dog, a cat, and a small vacation home. Her husband works for a global company and travels most of each week. She joined her father-in-law’s accounting fir...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Health Caregiving Dementia Source Type: blogs
