02 Feb 2016

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As employers continue to push  employee health improvement or Wellness programs, they are looking at gathering more "validated" results instead of relying on the always questionable self reported data.  In particular the tracking of physical activity is one that has gotten much attention and companies now hand out Fitbits, Garmin devices, Jawbones and even Apple watches to track people's...
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13 Jan 2016

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  I recently had the pleasure of visiting Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI), a medical facility founded by Dr. Devi Shetty in a relationship between Narayana Health and Ascension. A group of individuals from the United States toured the hospital and had an opportunity to meet with and ask questions of the staff including the senior physicians for the surgical areas. Although I was o...
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04 Jan 2016

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After my last physician office visit, I got invited to sign into the patient portal for the health system that the physician is affiliated with.  This is a very large health system in Jacksonville, FL and many would say its the premier hospital. My primary care physician who I have been seeing for a number of years is part of this system as are the specialists. The Portal is really the m...
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30 Dec 2015

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On January 27th I'll be presenting at the Jacksonville Association of Health Underwriters Annual Conference. This years theme is "Protecting Consumers." My presentation will be on Wellness Programs: The good the bad and the ugly, during which I'll explore some of the claims made by vendors, how to correctly measure these programs as well as what it takes to get results. Here is a link to...
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28 Dec 2015

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Let me begin by saying that I have never built a company into the league of Theranos and I hope that they or another company has and or does develop new technologies and approaches that improve lab testing, service delivery, quality and/or costs. Healthcare delivery certainly needs a lot of improvements and not just in the lab area.  On the other hand I do have start-up experience, havin...
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27 Dec 2015

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I was on a call the other day with a company that provides a targeted consumer engagement platform based on psychographic data that is used to “bucket” people into one of a few groups and then send targeted messaging to them via different communication systems. When they got to their results slide my antenna went up. Here were two of their claims directly off of the PowerPoint slide: 7...
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22 Nov 2015

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Update to Original Post (4/3/16) Moov reached out to me via twitter after apparently reading the post and asked me to contact customer service saying they wanted to fix the issues I had experienced and wrote about below.  They offered me a free replacement band. I thanked them for their efforts and will let you know if there is anything different with the buckle or the bands ability to h...
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06 Oct 2015

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You’re familiar with the term “population health” through posts, articles and discussions with peers. Now come learn how we all can effectively operate within the framework of population health and strengthen the population health management programs within our respective organizations.  I’m hoping you can join me Nov. 2-4, 2015 in Washington, DC for the Population Health Alliance (PHA) ...
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03 Sep 2015

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This years PHA Forum has The Great Debate during the Executive Institute between Al Lewis and Ron Goetzel on Wellness Programs and ROI, but the PHA Forum also has incredible keynotes, programming and networking. The theme is "Welcome to Health: Population 1". Why? Because we recognize that the person is critical, we move populations one person at a time. So whether you are into politics,...
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21 Jul 2015

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This week on PopHealth Week, Wednesday at 3 pm eastern, 12 pm pacific, in our continuing focus on primary care and population health we are pleased to welcome Paul Grundy, MD, Global Director of Healthcare Transformation IBM, President PCPCC and Ambassador Healthcare Denmark. Paul is known as the “Godfather” of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).   Learn how the Patient Center...
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