11 Healthcare Innovation Trends To Watch In 2020
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY
As we near the end of the year, rather than reflect on fond memories of 2019 (for which I’m grateful for my family, friends, readers, and Twitter followers), I’ve already started thinking about 2020. If you ever wanted to get inside my brain for 5-10 minutes (scary proposition I know) related to healthcare startups and innovation, here are some areas or trends that I will be following in the new decade.
1. Medicare-For-All Will Be Everywhere
As we move closer to the Democratic Presidential caucus, some of the top-polling candidates (Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Andre...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology 2020 Andy Mychkovsky health innovation Healthcare Pizza Source Type: blogs
Preventing falls in older adults: Multiple strategies are better
Despite considerable research and clinical effort, falls among people 65 and older are on the rise. An older adult is treated in the emergency room for a fall every 11 seconds, with injuries ranging from simple cuts and bruises to broken bones. Hip fractures are the most serious injury from falls, and more than half of older adults hospitalized for hip fractures after a fall never regain their previous levels of mobility or quality of life. Further, falls are a leading cause of death among older adults. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an older adult dies from a fall every 19 minutes. Despite th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brad Manor, PhD Tags: Caregiving Health Healthy Aging Injuries Safety Source Type: blogs
Too old for the pediatrician? Time to switch doctors
It happens to every young adult: at some point, they become too old for their pediatrician.
When it happens depends both on the young adult and the pediatric practice. Some teens are ready for a change when they become legal adults at 18, tired of sitting with babies in the waiting room. Others want to stay with their pediatrician, and do until the very last minute the pediatrician will let them. As for practices, some have firm rules about when patients need to move on, while others don’t, letting them stay until the early years of their 20s.
Ideally, young adults will have a smooth transition from one health care provi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Managing your health care Source Type: blogs
How a Value Focus Could Change Health Care
By BRIAN KLEPPER, PhD
How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have, but that’s probably far from the truth. If we pull levers that incentivize the right care at the right time, it’s likely that many of the problems we think we’re stuck with, like overtreatment and a lack of accountability, will disappear.
A large part of getting the right results is making sure that health care vendors have the right incentives. All forms of reimbursement carry incentives, so it’s important...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Value-Based Care Brian Klepper Health Care Reform Validation Institute Source Type: blogs
‘I Apologize for What You Are About To See’
By HILARY HATCH, PhD
The growing movement to include the patient voice in medicine through
Motivational Interviewing, patient-reported outcomes, social determinants of health
and shared decision-making
One day in 2011, as a part of my research on ways
to improve patient-provider communication about health behaviors, I was
shadowing Dr. G., a talented young internist with a cheerleader demeanor. He marched
through 12 afternoon patient appointments with confidence and purpose. But when
he saw the name of the last patient on her schedule, he turned pale, faced me
and said, “I apologize for what you are about to see....
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Psychology Hilary Hatch motivational interviewing patient-reported outcomes Phreesia Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Need to check your thyroid? Maybe not
As medical science advances, we have more tests and biomarkers available to help identify illnesses. Yet overdiagnosis and overtreatment that may occur following abnormal results can cause dangerous adverse effects and costly consequences. Hypothyroidism — a lower than normal range of thyroid hormones — may be the poster child for this problem because it is such a common condition.
What is hypothyroidism?
At the front of your neck lies the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland that makes the hormone T4. When released into the bloodstream, T4 converts to T3, the most active form of thyroid hormone. Having sufficient levels ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Autoimmune diseases Fatigue Tests and procedures Thyroid Disorders Source Type: blogs
Trauma-Informed Primary Care
Samyukta Mullangi
By SAMYUKTA MULLANGI MD, MBA, DANIEL W. BERLAND MD, and SUSAN DORR GOOLD MD, MHSA, MA
Jenny, a woman in her twenties with morbid obesity (not her real name), had already been through multiple visits with specialists, primary care physicians (PCPs), and the emergency department (ED) for unexplained abdominal pain. A plethora of tests could not explain her suffering. Monthly visits with a consistent primary care physician also had little impact on her ED visits or her pain. Some clinicians had broached the diagnosis of functional abdominal pain related to her central adiposity, and recommended weight...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Adverse Childhood Experience primary care Social Determinants of Health Trauma Source Type: blogs
Patient-Directed Access for Competition to Bend the Cost Curve
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD
Many of you have received the email: Microsoft HealthVault is shutting down. By some accounts, Microsoft has spent over $1 Billion on a valiant attempt to create a patient-centered health information system. They were not greedy. They adopted standards that I worked on for about a decade. They generously funded non-profit Patient Privacy Rights to create an innovative privacy policy in a green field situation. They invited trusted patient surrogates like the American Heart Association to participate in the launch. They stuck with it for almost a dozen years. They failed. The broken market and promi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health Policy Health Technology Adrian Gropper CMS Health Data Interoperability ONC Source Type: blogs
Overprescribing Is a Key Component of the Opioid Crisis — Here’s How to Stop It
By DAVE CHASE
Today’s opioid crisis is one of the most dire side effects driven by our dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system. A recent JAMA Surgery report found that many surgeons prescribe four times more opioids than their patients use. This opens the door for misuse and abuse later on. In fact, the total combined cost of misuse, abuse, dependence and overdose is about $78.5 billion.
Unfortunately, there’s a direct connection between the low-quality care many patients receive, and the astounding rates of opioid addiction. Often, insurance plans offer access to high-cost, volume-centric physicians and include high de...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Value-Based Care Dave Chase Opioid epidemic Source Type: blogs
Why we need more physician entrepreneurs
Three years ago, I had a massive, life-changing event. It passed with little notice; it was beyond banal and happened while eating sushi with a colleague in a landlocked state. Here I am with a young patient at the direct primary care practice I opened in Kansas City, Kansas, after residency. We were in our […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/allison-edwards" rel="tag" > Allison Edwards, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Investors Most Focused On Health IT Sector
There are lots of ways to pick up a stake in the business, but health IT is healthcare investors’ favorite place to sink their money, according to a new survey by KPMG and Leavitt Partners. In fact, as you see below, the investors are willing to pay a premium for positions in such companies.
In September and October, KPMG and Leavitt surveyed 175 respondents about their healthcare investment plans. The two found that 34% of respondents were most interested in investing health IT, followed by care management (31%), home health (23%), retail-centric medical groups (22%) and primary care practices (21%).
Before you get th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR-EHR Health Care Health IT Company Healthcare Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Integrating in Health Care: 6 Tools for Working Across Boundaries
By REBECCA FOGG
Today’s health care providers face the formidable challenge of delivering better, more affordable and more convenient care in the face of spiraling care costs and an epidemic of chronic disease. But the most innovative among them are making encouraging progress by “integrating”—which in this context means working across traditional boundaries between patients and clinicians, health care specialties, care sites and sectors.
The impulse to do so is shrewd, according to our innovation research in sectors from computer manufacturing to education. We’ve found that when a product isn’t yet good enou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Physicians collaboration health innovation Health Tech Integration Iora Health Kaiser Permanente Oak Street Health partnerships Rebecca Fogg Source Type: blogs
Comprehensiveness is Killing Primary Care
By HANS DUVEFELT
Dr. Hans Duvefelt
In most other human activities there are two speeds, fast and slow. Usually, one dominates. Think firefighting versus bridge design. Healthcare spans from one extreme to the other. Think Code Blue versus diabetes care.
Primary Care was once a place where you treated things like earaches and unexplained weight loss in appointments of different length with documentation of different complexity. By doing both in the same clinic over the lifespan of patients, an aggregate picture of each patient was created and curated.
A patient with an earache used to be in and out in less than five minutes...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians primary care primary care practices quality mandates Source Type: blogs
APRNs and 21st-Century American Healthcare
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are an increasingly important fixture within the 21st-century American healthcare system and nursing profession. Full practice authority is a central key to APRNs ’ ability to fulfill the needs of the American public, and it’s time for such authority to be granted nationwide.My APRN StoryIn my own experience as a nurse, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses have figured largely. In the early years of my nursing career in Western Massachusetts, I was lucky enough to work with several teams of gifted nurse practitioners. These particular NPs were blessed to work alongside physici...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 9, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: APRN APRNs family nurse practitioners healthcare healthcare careers healthcare delivery healthcare policy nurse practice nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
A patient is left with a choice: financial devastation or blindness
That statement from a recent patient was a summary to me of what is bad in our health care “system.” It’s a terrible summary of what is seen all over this country with people who must make the choice between financial solvency and health.
Here’s what happened: It was a new patient I saw, who is a veteran who owns two businesses. He went out on his own when he “kept getting laid off.” He has largely been successful in what he’s doing, but as is the case with many these days, he couldn’t afford health insurance. This was especially bad because he had a heart attack last year, which required stenting...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rob-lamberts" rel="tag" > Rob Lamberts, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
