07 Jul 2016

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In attempting to control healthcare costs, improve health and seek better utilization of healthcare services by their employees,  one key area of focus by employers needs to be health literacy. It's clear that poor health literacy is a strong indicator of health care costs. Here are some statistics:   Tom Chamberlain, PharmD, the Founder and CEO of EdLogics joined Gregg Masters  a...
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22 Jun 2016

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At the Population Health Alliance Forum last fall, covered by Health Innovation Media, I had the chance to chat with Ray Fabius, MD, CEO and Founder of HealthNext. We discussed a lot of ground including Culture of Health, the impact of creating a culture of health on productivity and company performance, HealthNext and the second Edition of Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellne...
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14 Jun 2016

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By FRED GOLDSTEIN and BRIAN KLEPPER At the recent Health Datapalooza conference, Sylvia Burwell, the HHS Secretary announced a new initiative, A Bill you Can Understand, : a challenge to encourage health care organizations, designers, developers, digital tech companies and other innovators to design a medical bill that’s simpler, cleaner, and easier for patients to understand, and to imp...
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24 May 2016

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There was an interesting report by McKinsey and Company about the health insurance exchanges, the dropping out of several large insurers like United Healthgroup and Humana and which plans were being successful.  Together with Brian Klepper, I published a post on The Doctor Weighs In. You can read it here: What Happens when its Easier to Raise Rates than Manage Care...
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12 May 2016

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  As many of you know, I am on the advisory board of the Care Innovations Validation Institute.  This is an important organization for the Population Health and Wellness industry. The advisory board is chaired by Dr. David Nash, Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health. Our industry is facing some questions; one need only look at the multitude of population health and well...
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05 May 2016

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11/6/16 News Flash, The Dodo Bird is Still Alive: Well another year has rolled around and I was talking to the person who's experience with their wellness program I had discussed below. Lo and behold, the problems I had originally documented continue. This is a common example and explains why so many wellness programs should be discontinued. It was time for next years enrollment period f...
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21 Apr 2016

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  So as you know from my earlier posts, I have used and blogged on FitBit, Garmin, Moov, Basis Watch (2nd post on Basis Watch), Google Glass and apps like BodBot as well as posted on issues with wearable trackers in general.  At the recent HiMSS conference I was given an Apple Watch for participating in a 20 minute meeting with a vendor.  Great gift by the way.  Anyhow, I have now w...
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19 Apr 2016

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This post was originally published on Health Leaders Online in April 2006 and is no longer available, I have placed it here to maintain a clean copy.  It is also available with some typos and other errors here.   The prevalence of inappropriate actions in healthcare drives additional margins in the industry’s supply, delivery, and financing sectors, says contributor Fred Goldste...
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19 Apr 2016

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One issue of key importance discussed over and over at HiMSS was Interoperability. Arien Malec,  VP, Data Platform and Acquisition Tools at RelayHealth / McKesson joined me at HiMSS 16 to discuss RelayHealth and his work in this area. Arien is involved at a national policy level as a Co-Chair of the Health IT Standards Committee  and a member of the Interoperability Standards Advisory Ta...
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