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Building credibility in digital health [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join David Lee Scher, a cardiologist and digital health consultant. We’ll explore the ever-evolving world of digital health, discussing topics such as problem-solving in health care, building credibility in digital health technologies, the power of digital partnerships, long-term growth strategies, and data-driven improvements. David Read more… Building credibility in digital health [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Health IT Source Type: blogs

The top 3 factors influencing how patients choose your health care practice
When building your practice, knowing what factors influence how patients find you and ultimately choose to be treated by you is critical. As a health care provider, you focus on treating patients and providing the best care possible. The business side of health care may be of less interest to you. However, to effectively grow Read more… The top 3 factors influencing how patients choose your health care practice originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Why Not, Indeed?
By KIM BELLARD Recently in The Washington Post, author Daniel Pink initiated a series of columns he and WaPo are calling “Why Not?” He believes “American imagination needs an imagination shot.” As he describes the plan for the columns: “In each installment, I’ll offer a single idea — bold, surprising, maybe a bit jarring — for improving our country, our organizations or our lives.” I love it. I’m all in. I’m a “why not?” guy from way back, particularly when it comes to health care. Mr. Pink describes three core values (in the interest of space, I’m excerpting his descriptions): Curi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Adam Nagourney Daniel Pink Kim Bellard Why Not Source Type: blogs

Let ’ s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care
This article explores some fundamental changes that could accompany this shift in terminology, revolutionizing how we handle data and patient interventions. Engagement For Life We know that maintaining health is an endeavor that takes years, even decades. A successful endeavor must survive the departure of clinicians who have built relationships with the patient, as well as the patient’s own geographic moves, changes of provider, and changes of insurance. Treatment recommendations should also be tailored to the psychology of each patient. Is there a message in this exhortation for people working with data and healt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Chronic Care Management Patient Centered Care Patients Society for Participatory Medic Source Type: blogs

Supporting innovations in cancer treatment and prevention for our nation ’s most vulnerable
By KAT MCDAVITT and LESLIE KIRK Innsena has made a $100,000 contribution to CancerX, making Innsena the public-private partnership’s first Impact Supporter. Why? There are few conditions in which the disparity in innovations benefiting underserved communities is more apparent than in the treatment and prevention of cancer. Patients without insurance are more likely to present with more advanced cancers, and the cancer death rate for people of color is significantly higher than for white patients. More people die from cancer in rural communities than in urban settings.  In CancerX, we found a community of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy CancerX DiME health equity Jennifer Goldsack Kat McDavitt Leslie Kirk Medicaid Moffitt Cancer Center Oncology Ventures Source Type: blogs

The 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
By MIKE MAGEE Not surprisingly, my nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.” As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and coiner of the term “friendly AI” stated in Forbes: “Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence—in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.”  Perhaps the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Biology Crispr DNA Mike Magee Source Type: blogs

Patient engagement: the missing piece in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join health care executives Susan Montminy and Marlene Icenhower as they discuss the critical topic of patient engagement in health care. In episode, Susan and Marlene explore the impact of patient engagement on provider satisfaction and health care outcomes. They share their expertise on Read more… Patient engagement: the missing piece in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 13, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Nursing in crisis: How administrative tasks are taking a toll [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Karlene Kerfoot, a nurse executive, as we delve into the nurse and clinician workforce crisis in the United States. Discover the factors contributing to this crisis, the impact of administrative tasks on health care professionals, and innovative solutions that can enhance patient care Read more… Nursing in crisis: How administrative tasks are taking a toll [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Nursing Source Type: blogs

Not all patients are on disability
A recent conversation with my sister inspired me to write this post. She is a physical therapist who often rants about how patients with chronic pain or chronic illness don’t work and are just on disability. I know she’s far from the only health care provider with the same belief. She and her coworkers spend Read more… Not all patients are on disability originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Patients Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Shared decision-making in health care: promise vs. reality
The American Heart Association (AHA) recently published a statement on the importance of shared decision-making (SDM) between physicians and patients. This concept, though at least 50 years old, has become popular in the last decade or so, with expectations of improving patient care, satisfaction, safety, care efficiency, and cost reduction. Though some preliminary research appears Read more… Shared decision-making in health care: promise vs. reality originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Primary Care Source Type: blogs

From fee-for-service to value-based care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Michael Poku, a physician executive, as we delve into the challenges and solutions for transforming the U.S. health care system. Explore how the fee-for-service model perpetuates health inequities, the importance of value-based care, and the impact on patient outcomes. Discover how prioritizing patients Read more… From fee-for-service to value-based care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 10, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of LifeWhen Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life
Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life, 23 Am. J. Bioethics (2023): In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Daryl Pullman contrasts the assisted suicide... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 10, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

There ’s no place like home when it comes to health care, except for those who fall through the cracks
Maria (name changed to protect patient privacy) is a brilliant woman with a troubled health history. After a mental health diagnosis cut short her career as a high-level government official, Maria has struggled with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, depression, and advanced kidney disease, leading to a series of toe amputations and a decade of disability. She Read more… There’s no place like home when it comes to health care, except for those who fall through the cracks originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Where UiPath Can Automate For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare
UiPath has been expanding the scope of automation for years, most recently by applying generative AI. In this extensive interview Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare, describes many of the current and future areas ripe for automation. Beyond the details, the video is well worth watching for Warrelmann’s vision of how automation can extend into new areas of health care to relieve burdens on clinicians and administrators. He points out that there are many use cases left where automation is valuable without the need for AI. He has found that clients can identify 300 to 400 use cases for workflow improvement ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Revenue Cycle Management Desktop Automation Healthcare Automation Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Vide Source Type: blogs

The Optimism of Digital Health
By JONATHON FEIT Journalists like being salty.  Like many venture investors, we who are no longer “green” have finely tuned BS meters that like to rip off the sheen of a press release to reach the truthiness underneath. We ask, is this thing real? If I write about XYZ, will I be embarrassed next year to learn that it was the next Theranos? Yet journalists must also be optimistic—a delicate balance: not so jaded that one becomes boooring, not so optimistic that one gets giddy at each flash of potential; and still enamored of the belief that every so often, something great will remake the present paradigm. T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI DHIS West Jonathon Feit Michelle Snyder venture capital Source Type: blogs