by Ben Wilson March 2017 – If you’re like me, you’re tired of wasting time on healthcare technology partnership deals that go nowhere. These deals often take time, travel expense, and most of all, incur a significant opportunity cost. Healthcare provider and payer organizations have complex and sophisticated IT environments with hundreds of applications. These healthcare… Read more »
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Healthcare IT: “Everything that Rises Must Converge”
by Arvind Subramanian, President & CEO of HealthMyne February 2017 – The title of gifted writer Flannery O’Connor’s eponymous short story collection “Everything That Rises Must Converge” is a good expression of the powerful intersecting forces driving the next wave of value creation in the US Healthcare IT (HCIT) ecosystem. The confluence of consumerism, demographics, provider leadership/management… Read more »
Does ACA Repeal Shift Power to Insurers?
By Dan Wilson, Founder & CEO of Moxe Health January 2017 – With Congress moving to repeal the ACA, reinforced by President Trump’s executive order for a “prompt repeal,” there’s significant speculation surrounding how our insurance market will look post-2017. The ACA introduced changes resulting in an estimated 20 million people gaining coverage since the law’s… Read more »
Telemedicine Does Greatly Benefit Doctors and Their Practices
By Mark P. Seraly, MD, Founder of Iagnosis December 2016 – When it comes to telemedicine and the ability to conduct an online medical visit, much has been said about the direct benefits to the patient – particularly as it relates to convenience and time savings. But does offering this new, convenient option for the… Read more »
Consumer Driven Healthcare Is All About Marketing
By Russell Benaroya, Founder & CEO of EveryMove October 2016 – Consumers need to do the right things for themselves in order for our healthcare system to work. That’s everything from making smart lifestyle decisions to understanding their benefits to spending those growing out of pocket dollars wisely. Unless individuals act in their best interest to take… Read more »
Our Healthcare System – Its Survival Lies with the Consumer
By Ken Saitow, President & CEO of CareWire September 2016 – Patient engagement is now recognized as a crucial component of high-quality healthcare services, as it contributes to better health outcomes and an enhanced patient experience, improves adherence to therapies, and reduces care costs. In the last several years, healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes… Read more »
Independence Remains a Rewarding Choice for Doctors
By Michael Nissenbaum, CEO of Aprima Medical Software, and Dr. Chadwick Prodromos, Orthopaedic Sportsmedicine Specialist August 2016 – Independent physicians are not quite a dying breed, though their ranks are dwindling. In the year 2000, 57% of all doctors worked in their own private practice; today, only about one-third of physicians remain independent. The doctors who… Read more »
The Birth of the “Healthcare at Home” Era
by Ken Accardi, Founder & CEO of Ankota July 2016 – When we think of healthcare, our immediate images are of the hospital or perhaps our doctor’s office. This is because the hospital and the physician’s practice are the places that we traditionally go for healthcare services, and for most of us this won’t change. … Read more »
This Was Going To Be Easy, Wasn’t It?
by Jim Evans April 2016 – One of the mostly broadly used and ill-defined terms in healthcare is the word “startup.” It could be a guy developing an app in his basement or a company valued at millions of dollars with good technology but little or no market penetration. A while ago, we shared a little… Read more »
Customer Pull vs. Product Push: Necessary But Not Easy
by Ed Meyercord Winter 2014-15 – Steve Jobs famously said, “customers don’t know what they want until they see it.” He wanted nothing to do with market research or customer feedback. And, while it is difficult to argue with his successes at Apple, Jobs was only right in a narrow yet large B2C market where… Read more »