Who Cares About the Doctor-Patient Relationship? A Review of “ Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health ”
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD
A mere two decades ago, the headlines were filled with stories about the “HMO backlash.” HMOs (which in the popular media meant most insurance companies) were the subject of cartoons, the butt of jokes by comedians, and the target of numerous critical stories in the media. They were even the bad guys in some movies and novels. Some defenders of the insurance industry claimed the cause of the backlash was the negative publicity and doctors whispering falsehoods about managed care into the ears of their patients. That was nonsense. The industry had itself to blame.
The primary cause of the backlash w...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians care advocates Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health patient-provider relationship Value-Based Payment Source Type: blogs
Giving Consumers the Tools and Support They Need to Navigate Our Complex Healthcare System
By CINDI SLATER, MD, FACR
As physicians and healthcare leaders, we are already well aware that the majority of patients do not have the information they need to make a medical decision or access to appropriate resources, so we didn’t need to hear more bad news. But that is precisely what new research once again told us this spring when a new study showed that almost half of the time, patients have no idea why they are referred to a GI specialist.
While the study probably speaks to many of the communications shortcomings we providers have, across the board our patients often don’t know what care they need, or how to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians Health care leaders Health care technology patient-provider relationship Physician's Responsibilities Source Type: blogs
Creating Loyalty in Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/27 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Sunny Tara (@SunnyTaraVegas) and Janae Sharp (@coherencemed) from @CareCognitics on the topic of “Creating Loyalty in Healthcare“.
In the current healthcare landscape, one element that’s really missing is loyalty. We’ve all heard the stories of how the next generation of patients is much more likely to switch doctors. It seems that loyalty is hard to find in healthcare today.
The reality for most healthcare organizations and payers is th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 24, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics CareCognitics Janae Sharp Patient Experience Sunny Tara Source Type: blogs
Identifying, Selecting, and Managing Healthcare Technology Products and Services – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/20 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Healthcare Scene (@HealthcareScene) on the topic of “Identifying, Selecting, and Managing Healthcare Technology Products and Services” and is an extension of last week’s #HITsm chat.
It should be no surprise to anyone who’s worked in the healthcare industry for any length of time that effective and cost-efficient information technology products and services are essential to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce runaway healthcare costs. And ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Source Type: blogs
Recapping the #HITsm Crowdsourced List of Top Technology Services & Products for Healthcare Stakeholders
The following is a guest blog post by Steve Sisko (@ShimCode). Thanks to Steve for putting in all the time and effort to collect and analyze last week’s chat in preparation for this week’s chat.
Last week, the Health Information Technology Social Media (HITsm) tweet chat hosted by Jared Jeffery @Jk_Jeffery challenged participants to share their ideas on the Top 10 Technology Services & Products for Healthcare Stakeholders. Forty-six participants shared over 500 tweets on six topics supporting the theme of the tweetchat.
In an effort to explore new ways of leveraging the wisdom of the crowd, the information,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Healthcare IT Topics Source Type: blogs
#HITsm Community Identifies Top 10 Technology Services & Products for Healthcare Stakeholders – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/13 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) on the topic of “#HITsm Community Identifies Top 10 Technology Services & Products for Healthcare Stakeholders”
At the beginning of each year, almost every healthcare thought leader, vendor and media company share a list of ‘Top 10 Healthcare Predictions and Trends.’ These lists get a lot of attention but rarely are these lists ever revisited or vetted by those who work in the healthcare industry. Nor are these li...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Patient Communication Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the Future of Patient Communication? – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/6 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Lea Chatham (@LeaChatham) from @Solutionreach on the topic of “What’s the Future of Patient Communication?”
One in three patients is considering a switch in healthcare providers according the Patient-Provider Relationship Study. And, nearly 40 percent who have already switched said it was because of poor experience. Some of the top issues were poor communication, difficulty scheduling, and bad customer service from staff.
These are totally fixa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 3, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Patient Communication Source Type: blogs
How Nursing Informatics is Changing the Healthcare Landscape – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Cathy Turner (@MEDITECH_Nurses) and Ashley Dauwer (@amariedauwer) from @MEDITECH on the topic of “How Nursing Informatics is Changing the Healthcare Landscape.”
When it comes to treating patients, there is one constant: the critical role that nurses play in delivering quality care. As care becomes more complex and stretches far beyond the acute hospital walls, nursing roles will continue to evolve. The nursing informaticist role emerged at the uniqu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 26, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Ashley Dauwer Cathy Turner MEDITECH Nurses Nursing Informaticists Source Type: blogs
IT and Affordability, Care for the Poor, Population Health in Low-income Areas – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Lenny Liebmann (@LennyLiebmann) on the topic of “IT and Affordability, Care for the Poor, Population Health in Low-income Areas.”
Technology can do a lot for healthcare delivery. But can technology—and technologists—specifically improve delivery for the economically disadvantaged and under-served? Or are the financial incentives in our industry too heavily stacked against such efforts?
Please join us this Friday, June 22 from noon to 1PM Eastern...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITsm Topics Source Type: blogs
How Can We Better Educate Patients About Their Imaging Procedures?
Although radiologists have been working toward strengthening patient communication in recent years, there exists a weak spot in relaying procedural information. According to a studypublished inRadiology, 22 percent of patients don ’t receive pre-examination information for their radiology exams." This means one in five people are showing up for the exam without any information about the test they are getting, " saidJay K. Pahade, MD, the study ’s lead author in a Radiological Society of North America press release. " This is an important finding in today ' s health care system, where we want more patient engagement...
Source: radRounds - June 1, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
How to Introduce Microservices in a Legacy Healthcare Environment
The following is a guest blog post by Nick Vennaro, Co-founder of Capto Consulting.
Healthcare as a whole is finding new ways to use technology to improve population health and patient experience. Population health is looking for a spectrum of precision in patient and provider data as well as clinical cost metrics and matching that data to patient communication, metrics and clinical outcomes. Patient experience requires streamlining information that is both timely and personalized, which is hard to accomplish with monolithic systems.
A monolithic system is usually one that has grown over many years and performs numerous fu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Health Care Healthcare HealthCare IT Astro Teller Capto Consulting Healthcare Legacy Software Healthcare Microservices Legacy Healthcare IT Michael Feathers Nick Vennaro Source Type: blogs
HOW TO Improve Doctors ’ Work Environment With Digital Technologies
Work environment has a massive impact on doctors’ empathy, focus, and overall performance. Although some factors are hard to change, such as the location of the medical practice, relationships with colleagues, the payment structure or the patient population, there are marvelous technological responses, which could ease the burden on physicians and help decrease stress. And who says that great solutions can only come from outside? Here are some tips for medical professionals, how they could improve their workspace.
Workplace optimization for higher medical career satisfaction
Taking care of patients is not a job, it’s a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: From Chance to Choice Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence digital digital health Healthcare Personalized medicine technology telemedicine wearables work environment Source Type: blogs
Tips for Teaching Graduate Students About Dysphagia
“When I was in graduate school, we didn’t even have a class on dysphagia,” I sometimes tell my students. But before you hold this against me, I did realize this gap in my education during my clinical fellowship back in 1993, so I attended a course taught by Jeri Logemann.
The course helped me connect the dots, but I did my fellowship in an outpatient department for a children’s hospital, so I needed to learn quickly. Fortunately, Joan Arvedson, Bob Beecher and Monica Wojcik continued to shape my pediatric dysphagia knowledge.
Now I’m a clinical instructor and guest lecturer teaching a pediatric dysphagia course t...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jennifer WIlson Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Feeding Disorders NICU Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 029 with Claire Davies
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Listen to our intensive care nurses
This week was International Nurses Week, which culminated in International Nurses Day on Saturday May 12th, the date on which Florence Nightingale was born. To celebrate this, my special guest this week is an intensive care nurse, Claire Davies.
Claire is my wife. To me, she is intelligent, caring, kind and compassionate, as both a nurse and a person. So after struggling for a while with the choice of who I should have as my first nurse ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 12, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies claire davies ICU nurses intensive care nurses Source Type: blogs
Nudges in Health: Physicians as choice architects
Physicians are trained to provide patients and the public with the best possible or optimal health choices. The rapid technological changes democratise and exponentially increased access to health information. We're confident humans make rational choices all the time. But we don't . We're humans after all. The good news is health choices could be optimally influenced. How? Tune in to #HealthXPh Tweetchat Saturday May 12, 2018 9-10PM Manila TimeRead more of this POST by clicking this>>>Nudges in Health: Physicians as choice architects (Source: The Orthopedic Logbook)
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - May 12, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Medicine Physician decision making health choices health decisions patient communication policy making Source Type: blogs
