What is Health Care ’ s LEGO?
BY KIM BELLARD
Last week the esteemed Jane Sarasohn-Kahn celebrated that it was the 65th anniversary of the famous LEGO brick, linking to Jay Ong’s blog article about it (to be more accurate, it was the 65th anniversary of the patent for the LEGO brick). That led me to read Jens Andersen’s excellent history of the company: The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination.
But I didn’t think about writing about LEGO’s until I read Ben’s Cohen’s Wall Street Journal profile of University of Oxford economist Bent Flyvbjerg, who studies why projects succeed or fail. His...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Healthcare Kim Bellard LEGO Modularity Source Type: blogs
What Scientists and Historians Understand: Without Truth, Progress Is An Impossibility
BY MIKE MAGEE
“This too will pass, honey!” That’s what my mother used to say when any of my eleven brothers and sisters or I seemed to be overwhelmed by whatever. And largely, now, three quarters of a century since my birth, she was mostly right. Whether in personal lives or the life of our nation, over a span of time, the slope has been slight, but upward.
But there are weeks, like this past one, where we are forced to witness the beating death of an innocent 29 year old black man at the hands of police in the very city where Martin Luther King was slaughtered 55 years ago, when it would be easy to lose hope. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy black history month Mike Magee Ron DeSantis Source Type: blogs
The “Antebellum Paradox”: What is it and why it matters.
BY MIKE MAGEE
I recently made the case that “Health is foundational to a functioning democracy. But health must be shared and be broadly accessible to be an effective enabler of good government.” I also suggested that the pursuit of good health is implied and imbedded in the aspirational and idealistic wording of our U.S. Constitution, and that the active pursuit of health as a nation is essential if we wish to rise to Hamilton’s challenge in Federalist #1 and prove that we are “capable of establishing good government from reflection and choice.” So why are native white males lagging behind in health?
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Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy antebellum paradox health informatics Mike Magee Population Health Source Type: blogs
Arrive Health Creates First-of-Its-Kind Medication Access Solution with Acquisition of Pharmacy Technology from UPMC Enterprises
Arrive Health, the leading provider of real-time benefit tools and integrated solutions that improve patient affordability, today announced the acquisition of a suite of innovative patient engagement and automation technologies developed by UPMC Enterprises and the UPMC Pharmacy Network.
Arrive Health will add AI-driven virtual assistant technology and a robust patient management system to its affordability offerings, expanding support for more than 200 million patients on their journey to fill and refill their medications. The combined assets will – for the first time – empower providers, care teams, and patients wi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI AI Virtual Assistant Arrive Health Artificial Intelligence Brenton Burns Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kyle Kiser Medication Adherence Patient Affordability patient engagement Patient-Sp Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023?
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Avel eCare Announces the Acquisition of NightWatch to Expand Pharmacy Telemedicine Services
The expansion of remote pharmacy services strengthens Avel eCare’s portfolio of telemedicine offerings and helps meet the growing demand for pharmacy telemedicine services across the United States
Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch, a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region. The acquisition strengthens Avel’s existing suite of telemedicine offerings and enables the company to expand its reach to better ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Avel Avel eCare burnout Christopher Vaught Doug Duskin Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A NightWatch pharmacy Pharmacy Telemedicine Vaught Inc. Source Type: blogs
Ref 6581/22, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development
About WesternWestern Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led university, located at the heart of Australia ’s fastest-growing and economically significant region, Western Sydney. Boasting 11 campuses – many in Western Sydney CBD locations – and more than 200,000 alumni, 49,500 students and 3,500 staff, the University has 14 Schools with an array of well-designed programs and degrees carefully struc tured to meet the demands of future industry.The University is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide, and as a research leader, over 85 per cent of the University ’s assessed rese...
Source: Talking Brains - January 12, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
The million dollar mistake: Why medical schools don ’ t teach business and how it ’ s costing physicians
The fact that every physician in private medical practice, without a business education, leaves approximately a million dollars on the table and is unaware of it is well known to business experts who work with medical doctors experiencing financial difficulties. Business experts such as Dan S. Kennedy, Peter Drucker, Michael Gerber, Maxwell Maltz, Neil Baum,
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The million dollar mistake: Why medical schools don’t teach business and how it’s costing physicians originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Curtis G. Graham, MD Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Health Equity and SDoH – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s health equity and SDoH (Social Determinants of Health) predictions.
Ted Quinn, CEO and founder at Activate Care
Continued economic instability will put more America...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Activate Care Adrienne Boissy Carenet Health Chelsea King Arthur Get Well Health Equity Matt Dickson Patient Discovery Qualtrics SDOH Social Determinants of Health Sunw Source Type: blogs
Whatever it is, I'm against it
I was quite interested to read this story about a rural Ohio county where local opposition led tocancellation of plans for a 400 megawatt solar energy project that would have provided the county with $3.6 million a year in tax revenue, adding up to $100 million over the life of the project. The same thing happened in the small town where I live. The town owns land it isn ' t using -- a six acre and a 12 acre parcel as I recall -- and had a proposal to install solar farms on the land and pay the town a substantial leasing fee. But the town meeting voted it down. Our town is in difficult financial straits, we can ' t really ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
“All Men Would Be Tyrants.” History Reverberates!
By MIKE MAGEE
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
This striking and sweeping statement of values, the Preamble to our Constitution, was anything but reassuring to the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the Founding Fathers. Abigail Adams well represented many of them in her letter to John Adams in March, 1776, when she...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy AMA Contraception Dobbs v. Jackson Mike Magee Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Xish
Earlier I discussed the insane excesses of Xi Jinping ' s " zero Covid " policy. The economic and social costs of the draconian, and doomed, effort to end transmission of the virus in China were unsustainable. The policy provoked the first mass protests of his rule, at great peril to the protesters, created supply chain shortages around the world, and severely damaged the Chinese economy. So yeah, not a good idea. But . . .He suddenly turned 180 on a dime and eliminated all mitigations measures. The result has been equally catastrophic. Eric Fiegl-Ding is an epidemiologist who became well known as an early Cassandra about ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Give Kids a Healthy Itch
by KIM BELLARD
Someday I’ll probably write about Neuralink, but these days I don’t feel like giving Elon Musk any extra publicity. I also had the notion to take OpenAI’s newly announced ChatGPT down a rabbit hole about U.S. healthcare, just to see where it would go, but Mr. Musk has his fingerprints on that organization too. Then I saw something worth celebrating: Scratch has hit 100 million users worldwide.
What’s that? You’re not familiar with Scratch? Well, me neither, until last week. Now that I know a little about it, I kind of feel how I felt when I first discovered TikTok, found out about Roblo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Scratch Source Type: blogs
Real Change for Physician Practices According to MGMA President
88% of MGMA’s physician practice members say that workforce issues are creating financial challenges for them. Add to that high inflation, supply chain problems, as well as personal safety concerns and it’s not surprising to see why some see a bleak future for practices. Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright, sees a reason for hope and is working alongside her MGMA colleagues to push for long-term solutions that will help reduce the industry’s pain in the years ahead.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright, President and CEO of MGMA, at the 2022 annual conference (#MPE22) to get her take on the current state o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT #MPE22 Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright healthcare culture change Healthcare Workforce healthcare workforce challenge MGMA MGMA 2022 Physician Practices Source Type: blogs
