Uber the ambulance chaser
Uber and to a lesser degree Lyft have decimated the taxi industry with a disruptive model that lowers costs, improves service, and identifies the few bad apples among drivers and passengers. Now both companies are venturing into a niche market that’s in need of serious reform: medical transportation.
Some patients need help to get to their medical appointments and Medicaid and Medicare step in as needed to pay for transportation. However, too often a patient is transported in an expensive limo or even an ambulance when a regular car would have been fine. The government recognizes the problem and has taken some ste...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Patients Technology Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Population Health Blog
Jaan Sidrov has done us all a favor by hosting a Presidential Politics-Free Health Wonk Review. Thanks, Jaan! My own recent edition may have been a bit too Trumpy.
In place of the candidates we have posts on the Affordable Care Act, mobile health, outcomes, pharma misbehavior, health savings accounts, the minimum wage, drug pricing and more.
Enjoy. (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - April 7, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Source Type: blogs
New Health Wonk Review at The Population Health Blog
Jan Sidorov has posted A Presidential Politics-Free Health Wonk Review at The Population Health Blog
Please join us for a new multimedia experience (video conversation and text chat), Health Wonk Review On Air With HealthBlawg next Tuesday, April 12, at 1 pm ET for half an hour. It’s a Blab; you’ll need a Twitter account to sign up and log in. Join us live, or watch the replay here later if you can’t make it. (Source: Health Wonk Review)
Source: Health Wonk Review - April 7, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Vision Zero: The poem
Oops, didn’t see that coming
My father, Allan F. Williams is a renowned highway safety expert, sometimes called the Grandfather of Graduated Licensing. He retired from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety as Chief Scientist in 2004.
Recently he told me about Vision Zero, a Swedish notion, now popular in the US, that there should be no deaths or serious injuries on the highways. But one problem with this idea is that about three-quarters of people think they are superior drivers and that the highway safety problem is due to the “other” driver.
He wrote a little poem to explain what’s happ...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Amusements Research Source Type: blogs
Introducing the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology
The aim of the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology is to coalesce and codify common themes used in the cardiovascular social media community. With such a burgeoning social media presence in cardiovascular diseases, yet with such diverse terms and phrases for similar entities, this project should focus the energy and improve communication throughout the cardiovascular community. Here, we provide an initial list of hashtags incorporating some of the most common items encountered by patients and providers, in hopes that this dynamic collection will … Continued (Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur)
Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur - April 2, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: R. Jay Widmer, MD/PhD Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Cardiology Cardiology Hashtag Ontology Source Type: blogs
Introducing the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology
The aim of the Cardiology Hashtag Ontology is to coalesce and codify common themes used in the cardiovascular social media community. With such a burgeoning social media presence in cardiovascular diseases, yet with such diverse terms and phrases for similar entities, this project should focus the energy and improve communication throughou t the cardiovascular community. Here, we provide an initial list of hashtags incorporating some of the most common items encountered by patients and providers, in hopes that this dynamic collection will…Continued (Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur)
Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur - April 2, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: R. Jay Widmer, MD/PhD Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Cardiology Cardiology Hashtag Ontology Source Type: blogs
Is pharma industry too meek on pricing?
What were we thinking?
The biopharmaceutical industry has been under attack for some time for the high and rising prices of its products. Pressure has increased recently with the arrival of costly medications for oncology, hepatitis, high cholesterol and more. Expect even further pressure as more specialty drugs are introduced, and then really significant pushback once seriously costly innovations such as gene therapy come online.
I’ve noticed that the pool of people complaining about drug pricing is widening. Now, even doctors are picking up the megaphone. For example, the American College of Physicians (ACP...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Pharma Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up!
Check out the ACA Anniversary edition of the Health Wonk Review over at ACASignups. It’s a nice crisp edition (Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - March 25, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs
New Health Wonk Review at ACASignups.net
Charles Gaba has posted Health Wonk Review: ACA Anniversary Edition! at ACASignups.net. (Source: Health Wonk Review)
Source: Health Wonk Review - March 24, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
