15 Apr 2016

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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...
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14 Apr 2016

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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...
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19 Mar 2016

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    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...
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28 Feb 2016

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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...
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27 Feb 2016

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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, ...
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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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