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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
by Zhenya Abbruzzese Fall 2015 – Imagine patients who actually get worse the more care they receive, instead of better – suffer more symptoms, require more care, rack up higher medical bills and become more dissatisfied with their care. Take, for example, Anna P. She’s a 46-year-old accountant who’s been feeling dizzy. One day, she’s… Read more »
by Christopher Dennis Summer 2015 – There is a complexity crisis looming in American healthcare. As the population ages, healthcare providers, employers, insurers as well as federal, state and local governments will need to develop and deploy strategies to manage poly-chronic, highly comorbid patient populations. This subset of high-risk patients represents a small percentage of… Read more »
by Chris Watson Spring 2015 – In what many are calling a historical announcement earlier this year by HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, the agency has put a stake in the ground – 30 percent of fee-for-service Medicare payments will move to value-based pricing, also known as outcomes-based reimbursement, by the end of 2016. Fifty percent… Read more »
by Nesim Bildirici Winter 2013 – Although we’ve seen the widespread adoption of HIT throughout the healthcare system led by the dramatic increase in the use of EHRs/EMRs by physicians and hospitals, true patient-centered, coordinated care is still an unrealized goal. EHRs/EMRs do an outstanding job of enabling vast amounts of patient data to be… Read more »
by Jim Evans September 2013 – As a new CEO of an early stage startup, one of the chief questions I’m asking is “how do I get my solution to market?” A spin-off from a major medical center, we have a development laboratory and access to clinical resources. We also have a viable product that… Read more »