17 Jul 2014

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Engagement, its one of the other buzzwords running through the health and health care system. But just what is engagement and how do you measure it? It seems that every organization reports on engagement in their population health management, disease management or wellness programs in a different way.  Members of the Population Health Alliance are presently working through their Quality ...
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02 Jul 2014

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A few months ago I was presenting as part of a panel at a Central and North Florida HIMSS Chapter event entitled Meaningful Use / Patient Engagement / HIE: Experiences from the Trenches… and tying it all Together for the Benefit of the Patient!.  (Slides Here) My excellent co-panelists were all hospital executives, IT staff or consultants discussing the various meaningful use rules, wher...
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04 Jun 2014

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I just finished attending two very good days at Health Datapalooza in Washington, DC. The conference organizers did a great job putting together an interesting and engaging conference that touched on a lot of areas including Big Data, predictive analytics, behavior change, investment, mobile health and start-ups to name but a few.  As at other conferences of health and heath care organiz...
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22 May 2014

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So I think I have figured out an exercise routine that works for me using trackers and apps. I have played with the Fitbit Flex, Basis watch, and Google Glass as devices and tried a several health tracker apps, finally settling on Bodbot. I have used the Fitbit continuously for well over 6 months now to track my steps each day. With the Fitbit I shoot for 10,000 steps a day, usually gett...
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21 May 2014

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Originally many organizations sought to determine the value of their wellness, disease management or population health management programs based upon a reduction in medical claims costs.  It is now recognized that there are other reasons and a broader influence of these programs on organizations and payers that implement them. To help sort this out and come up with standards, The Populat...
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19 May 2014

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While we now recognize the need for creating and maintaining health and how much of it is behavioral;  there were many who recognized this earlier.  Here is one example: The Rebbe discussing preventive medicine. I really enjoyed his  comment regarding medicine having an approach to set up a "behavior pattern which will prevent one from becoming sick." This is where we are moving with the...
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21 Apr 2014

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So I opened my AIS Health Daily email and read two seemingly different stories that are actually related on an underlying level. The first discussed the 340B pharmacy pricing program that allows hospitals and other provider to buy drugs at a lower rate to when they  services to indigents and the uninsured.   340B Program Shirks Charitable Care, Undermines Formularies, Argue PBMs Rep...
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26 Nov 2013

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So after my first Basis 1 watch did not survive a shower on the first day; my replacement came quickly with a return authorization. I have now had this second watch for about a month and so far, so good.  In fact the day after I received it, I was out fishing and after bringing the boat in, reached into my livewell which was full of water to remove the drain pipe; a few short turns later...
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