Worksite clinics 2.0? Interview with Crossover CEO Scott Shreeve
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/shreeve-crossover-mp3-3_20_16-1-59-pm.mp3
I first encountered Dr. Scott Shreeve about a decade ago when he put forth an expansive framework for Health 2.0. We caught up again recently to discuss his next generation worksite clinic company, Crossover Health. I really enjoyed the podcast interview and am bullish on the company. Here’s what we discussed:
(0:10) How does Crossover compare to a traditional primary care practice, patient centered medical home, concierge practice, urgent care center or traditional worksite clinic?
(0:54) You have an onsite model and near site ...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Physicians Podcast norwest venture partners primary care Source Type: blogs
Twitter: The Future of Clinical Trial Recruitment
The views expressed in this post are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of any of my current or past employers. I recently wrote about how hard it is to communicate about cancer, if you are a patient, doctor, caregiver or even a professional communicator. The topic is difficult, the terminology is confusing, patients can get “chemo brain” and have problems processing information. And still in many cases, people don’t talk about cancer freely – at … Continued (Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur)
Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur - March 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mark Story Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Clinical trial recruitment Clinical Trials Source Type: blogs
Twitter: The Future of Clinical Trial Recruitment
The views expressed in this post are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily reflect those of any of my current or past employers. I recently wrote about how hard it is to communicate about cancer, if you are a patient, doctor, caregiver or even a professional communicator. The topic is difficult, the terminology is confusing, patients can get “chemo brain” and have problems processing information. And still in many cases, people don’t talk about cancer freely – at…Continued (Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur)
Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur - March 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mark Story Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Clinical Trials Source Type: blogs
Second breakfast: The Hobbits were on to something
From MedPage Today (For Kids, Two Breakfasts Healthier Than None)
Middle-school students who routinely ate two breakfasts — one at home and one at school — were still more likely to maintain a healthy body weight than those who skipped breakfast, a longitudinal study found.
Previous studies have shown a link between skipping breakfast and weight gain, but the mechanisms behind this phenomenon are not well understood either, Schwartz and colleagues said. One reason may be reverse causality: Overweight individuals skip breakfast thinking it will help them lose weight. Another theory is that skipping breakfast lea...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Amusements Research Hobbit lord of the rings Source Type: blogs
Collaboration in pre-clinical and clinical development: interview with Dalvir Gill
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/hbdew046-david-williams-interviews-transcelerate.mp3
TransCelerate BioPharma is a pharmaceutical company collaboration that addresses key issues in clinical development that benefit everyone. Now six members have decided to extend the concept to the pre-clinical realm by establishing BioCelerate. Their goal is to compress time to market, reduce cost, and increase the predictive value of preclinical data.
I spoke recently with TransCelerate’s CEO Dalvir Gill about TransCelerate and the new BioCelerate initiative. As CEO of both organization, he’s in a good p...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 16, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Pharma Research Source Type: blogs
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With 4646 blog posts dating back to August 2006, it's time to end this adventure. After over 9-1/2 years of almost daily output, I will cease adding new posts to this blog.Why? The main reason is that it is simply time to move on to other pursuits. The time and effort spent conceiving, researching, writing, and editing articles has pushed off other projects that I've had in mind for several years. I'd like to focus on those.I'm deeply appreciative of my loyal and engaged readers. They commented directly on the blog over 22 thousand times, and many have also sent private emails with their observations. The reade...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 15, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
How to get patient opinions: Ask.
Michael Greco and his mates at Patient Opinion have developed a simple and useful way to collect opinions about medical care from patients and provide a lovely forum for interactions back and forth with the hospital and providers. The purpose is simple: To enable and enhance issue resolution, relationship restoration, and improvement. An easy-to-use website makes it possible.The folks at Eastern Health in Victoria have had PO in place for some time. Here are some stories from their health system. As you can see, things go in both directions in a helpful, direct, and friendly fashion. In fact, this f...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 15, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
Callahan tells about stories
With a plethora of books about the value and importance of storytelling, we might wonder if another could offer any value. Well, the answer is yes, emphatically.Shawn Callahan's about-to-be released book Putting Stories to Work: Mastering Business Storytelling, is a must-have for your actual or digital library. It is available now on pre-order and will be on the "bookshelves" on March 20.Shawn is the founder of Anecdote, the world’s largest business storytelling company. His book is engaging and wise, and yes, replete with useful stories. His advise is concise and helpful, and--unsurprisingly--he has a way w...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
US News rankings reward transparency
Regular readers will know that I am no fan of hospital rankings and have been quite critical over the years at the ones at US News and World Report. But let's give credit to where it is due:Check out this news release. Excerpts:Patients and families who've used our rankings tell us they want more from hospitals. What they want is meaningful transparency.U.S. News will implement two closely related methodology changes this spring that could drive broader transparency. Both will affect only our rankings of Best Hospitals in Cardiology & Heart Surgery. In that specialty, we will award credit to hospitals that public...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 14, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
Meanwhile, back in Massachusetts
It's been some time since I commented on issues of market dominance in Massachusetts, but a recent story by Bruce Mohl at Commonwealth Magazine caught my interest. He writes about a petition being supported by a health care union, SEIU, and Steward Health Care that would mandate a flattening of rate disparities among the state's hospitals.The Massachusetts Hospital Association opposes the ballot question. Mohl notes:All but one of the hospital association’s board members head institutions that would benefit financially from the ballot question, but nevertheless they have formed a united front against it. Their r...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 13, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
Getting past denial in Victoria
You have to be willing to acknowlege your problems before you can remedy them. If I were to characterize the state of public and private hospital care in the state of Victoria, Australia, I'd have to say that this first step is lacking. Both the public and private hospital systems and the goverment regulators who oversee them are in a state of denial with regard to the level of harm being caused to the public by inadequate attention to quality and safety deficiencies. The health system as a whole, also, is characterized by an uwillingness to engage patients and families in the appraisal and improvement of care....
Source: Not running a hospital - March 12, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs
Introducing the Pathology Hashtag Ontology
The past two years have seen an explosion in the amount of pathology content being tweeted and in the number of pathologists active on Twitter. Pathology is perhaps even more suited to Twitter than many other medical fields because for most pathologists, the bulk of our daily work revolves around the interpretation of images for the diagnosis of human disease. Twitter allows us to easily share images of amazing cases with one another, and we can also discuss new controversies, … Continued (Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur)
Source: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media – Symplur - March 11, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jerad M. Gardner, MD Tags: Connecting the dots in healthcare social media Pathologist Pathology Source Type: blogs
