18 Apr 2016

As the world continues its push to mobile health and monitoring, Validic has been getting a lot of attention.   Validic provide's a digital health platform linking a broad array of mobile devices to companies looking to use this data. Their services' are being used by  hospitals, doctors, insurers, health and wellness companies, pharmaceutical companies and other health care entities. Th...

15 Apr 2016

Karissa Price-Rico, the Chief Marketing Officer of Care Innovations joined me for an interview at the recent HiMSS 2016 conference in Las Vegas.  Karissa is also the Executive Director of the Intel Care Innovations Validation Institute, of which I am an Advisory Board Member. We had the opportunity to discuss Care Innovations, their work in providing remote care management technology and...

14 Apr 2016

At the recent HiMSS 2016 conference in Las Vegas I had the pleasure of interviewing Brenda Schmidt of Solera Health, an Integrated Health Network. Solera connects a nationwide network of community organizations and digital solutions for chronic  disease prevention programs (including the CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program) with technology that manages service referrals, reimburseme...

19 Mar 2016

    At the recent HiMSS conference in Las Vegas I had the pleasure of interviewing Kaveh Safavi, MD  (@DrKavehSafavi),  Senior Managing Director, Health Industry,  Accenture Health (@AccentureHealth). Dr. Safavi  discusses their recent Patient Engagement Survey and other topics. They are doing some very forward looking work in this area. https://vimeo.com/161709473...

28 Feb 2016

I have been to the last few HiMSS conferences and each year population health is a big topic.  It seems everyone is talking about population health. From booth to booth, the vendors discuss how they are doing population health; when in fact each of these vendors brings a potential solution to some segment of the population health ecosystem. Population health is so broad that to do it com...

27 Feb 2016

Brian Klepper, a partner of mine at Health Value Direct just published a piece entitled Congress’ Drug Addiction It's a very good look at the problem we face in the United States. The high/excessive pricing structures are one of the root causes of  our ever-increasing healthcare costs. Short term fixes to our cost crisis are found on the supply side.  As we remove these from the system, ...