By Allan Max – Technology is helping health care practices in multiple ways. Telemedicine is one such aspect. Since the rise in Covid-19 cases in the US, more and more patients started opting for telemedicine. Even now, it is widely opted by a variety of patients.
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By David Burda – Years ago, in a publishing galaxy far, far away, the healthcare business publication that I worked for as a reporter required each news story to be read four times. Every story got four “reads,” as we used to say. At each step, the story got worse as the next read compounded errors introduced and questions raised by the previous read.
Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with guests Drs. Jeff Livingston & Hesham A. Hassaballa, who both weigh in on the general theme of clinician vulnerability and who heals the healer?
By Robert L. Murry PhD MD FAAFP – Recently I had the distinct privilege of presenting to the ONC Health IT Advisory Committee at their meeting titled “Health Equity by Design.” The presentation highlighted five areas of focus for Health IT in reducing health disparities:
By Gary Hamilton – The mass resignation of health care workers has left providers searching for answers. Employment in the industry is down by nearly 300,000 since February of 2020. This is not for lack of effort in maintaining the course; these are workers who often feel burdened to the point their only option is to exit.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Adam Pellegrini, co-founder and CEO of Jasper Health. On this episode Adam describes the care platform in detail, talks about the road that led him to Jasper, and shares several compelling stories from patients who’ve used from the service.
By William Hersh MD – One of the most enjoyable and impactful activities of my career has been the 10×10 course, which is an online introductory course in biomedical and health informatics that I teach in partnership with the American Medical Informatics Association.
By Steven Posnack – On April 27, 2004, President Bush signed Executive Order (EO) 13335 and created the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Like tapping that first domino, this single action is a key moment in United States health IT history. Nearly two decades later, US policy and technology leadership in health IT is world-renowned.
By Richard Watson MD – If healthcare ecosystems were a sheet of paper, the incentives have produced a day-to-day behavior with very little outside of the hearing. Lower inventories, single-source supply chains, and conscripted functionality with little or no flexibility for change have all locked us into a box.