Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in

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Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. The origins of that three-word objective probably came out of Hippocrates’ Corpus , which included a few additional words: “to do good or to do no harm.”. The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application.

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 29, 2018

What is the resiliency of a high reliability organization? What would a high reliability healthcare organization be resilient to? First, let’s discuss resilience in general. Described as the ability to not only endure stress but to quickly respond to and recover from inevitable, unpredictable disruptions , resilience seems to be an ongoing process that requires time and effort and engages people in taking a number of steps to not only prevent trauma but to adjust to or recover from it.

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Medbridge Education

MAY 8, 2018

This article is part two of our three part series on top strategic initiatives and goals we’ve heard from organizations (missed part one? See how you can improve Patient and Staff Engagement.). This series highlights specific pain points, and then provides a quick rundown on how to leverage MedBridge to meet your business goals. In […]. The post 3 Innovative Steps to Make Big Business Leaps in 2018 appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

Patient Experience

The Beryl Institute

MAY 3, 2018

Last month over 1,100 participants from around the world gathered in Chicago for the largest Patient Experience Conference to date. It was an incredible week offering opportunities for sharing and connection with our community. We learned together, cried together, laughed together and even danced together. This year’s opening video and message focused around the idea of #PXTogether.

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Health Dialog

MAY 29, 2018

As summer gets closer and the weather starts warming up, we see so many more people take a stronger interest in getting outside, getting active and turning a new leaf in their fitness regimens. With May being National Physical Fitness Month , we thought it would be a good time to revisit tips that encourage members to be healthier and sustain this newfound excitement for living a healthier lifestyle year round.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

One-third of Americans are following a specific eating pattern, including intermittent fasting, paleo gluten-free, low-carb, Mediterranean diet, and Whole 30, among dozens of other food-styles in vogue in 2018. It’s mainstream now that Americans are shopping food for health, with eyes focused on heart health, weight, energy, diabetes, and brain health, according to the 2018 Food & Health Survey from IFIC, the International Food Industry Council Foundation.

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 29, 2018

What is the resiliency of a high reliability organization? What would a high reliability healthcare organization be resilient to? First, let’s discuss resilience in general. Described as the ability to not only endure stress but to quickly respond to and recover from inevitable, unpredictable disruptions , resilience seems to be an ongoing process that requires time and effort and engages people in taking a number of steps to not only prevent trauma but to adjust to or recover from it.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

Two in 3 Americans haven’t heard the phrases “personalized medicine” or “precision medicine.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them.

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Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in

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Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in

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Health Blawg

MAY 14, 2018

I spoke with Dan Burton , CEO of Health Catalyst , about the range of his company’s work with health care systems when we met at HIMSS 2018. As he put it, Heath Catalyst provides three things: Data platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of sources, creating a single source of truth. Applications to analyze data. Expertise, so that when a client decides to work on projects that the data has led them to, the company can help them execute those projects.

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Health Blawg

MAY 14, 2018

I spoke with Dan Burton , CEO of Health Catalyst , about the range of his company’s work with health care systems when we met at HIMSS 2018. As he put it, Heath Catalyst provides three things: Data platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of sources, creating a single source of truth. Applications to analyze data. Expertise, so that when a client decides to work on projects that the data has led them to, the company can help them execute those projects.

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Health Blawg

MAY 14, 2018

I spoke with Dan Burton , CEO of Health Catalyst , about the range of his company’s work with health care systems when we met at HIMSS 2018. As he put it, Heath Catalyst provides three things: Data platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of sources, creating a single source of truth. Applications to analyze data. Expertise, so that when a client decides to work on projects that the data has led them to, the company can help them execute those projects.

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Health Blawg

MAY 14, 2018

I spoke with Dan Burton , CEO of Health Catalyst , about the range of his company’s work with health care systems when we met at HIMSS 2018. As he put it, Heath Catalyst provides three things: Data platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of sources, creating a single source of truth. Applications to analyze data. Expertise, so that when a client decides to work on projects that the data has led them to, the company can help them execute those projects.

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Health Blawg

MAY 14, 2018

I spoke with Dan Burton , CEO of Health Catalyst , about the range of his company’s work with health care systems when we met at HIMSS 2018. As he put it, Heath Catalyst provides three things: Data platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of sources, creating a single source of truth. Applications to analyze data. Expertise, so that when a client decides to work on projects that the data has led them to, the company can help them execute those projects.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2018

American saw the greatest number of deaths from suicide and alcohol- and drug-induced fatalities was recorded in 2016. That statistic of nearly 142,000 equates to deaths from stroke and exceed the number of deaths among Americans who died in all U.S. wars since 1950, according to Pain in the Nation Update from the Well Being Trust and Trust for America’s Health.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

Health Populi

MAY 6, 2018

Two weeks in a row, The Economist , the news magazine headquartered in London, included two special reports stapled into the middle of the magazines. Universal health care was covered in a section on 28 April 2018, and coverage on financial inclusion was bundled into the 5th May edition. While The Economist’s editors may not have intended for these two reports to reinforce each other, my lens on health and healthcare immediately, and appreciatively, connected the dots between healthcare

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 15, 2018

We’ve all heard of high reliability and have read about other industries that accomplish exceptional safety performance. While high reliability concepts are not new, the health care industry still struggles with becoming more reliable on their path to zero harm. A 2013 Becker’s article based on Quint Studer's (founder and Chairman of the Board at Studer Group) five traits of High Reliability organizations.

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Readiness Rounds

MAY 15, 2018

We’ve all heard of high reliability and have read about other industries that accomplish exceptional safety performance. While high reliability concepts are not new, the health care industry still struggles with becoming more reliable on their path to zero harm. A 2013 Becker’s article based on Quint Studer's (founder and Chairman of the Board at Studer Group) five traits of High Reliability organizations.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2018

Expect “new combinations” of industry actors and technologies to reorganize and re-imagine healthcare, with an eye on both price and investments in customer experience (CX), PwC envisions in their latest report on The New Health Economy in the Age of Disruption. In this vision, healthcare will be a more flexible marketplace underpinned by data, platforms, and workers.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2018

What if you went to visit a Vermeer still life with fruit, vegetables, and flowers, and the only image you saw in the famous painting was the flower and an urn? That’s exactly what happened to museum-goers visiting Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. These art patrons witnessed a museum guard literally pulling an apple out of a painting, to leave a barren portrait of an urn and little else.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2018

Be the change you wish to see in the world, Gandhi has been attributed as saying. This sentiment was echoed by Lauren Singer last Friday 18th May as we brainstormed the social determinants of health and the factors that underpin healthy communities. Our Facebook Live session was convened by the Aetna Foundation, which sponsored research on the Healthiest Communities in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

Be the change you wish to see in the world, Gandhi has been attributed as saying. This sentiment was echoed by Lauren Singer as we brainstormed the social determinants of health and the factors that underpin healthy communities. Our Facebook Live session was convened by the Aetna Foundation, which sponsored research on the Healthiest Communities in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

Be the change you wish to see in the world, Gandhi has been attributed as saying. This sentiment was echoed by Lauren Singer as we brainstormed the social determinants of health and the factors that underpin healthy communities. Our Facebook Live session was convened by the Aetna Foundation, which sponsored research on the Healthiest Communities in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2018

Be the change you wish to see in the world, Gandhi has been attributed as saying. This sentiment was echoed by Lauren Singer last Friday 18th May as we brainstormed the social determinants of health and the factors that underpin healthy communities. Our Facebook Live session was convened by the Aetna Foundation, which sponsored research on the Healthiest Communities in 2018.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. The map shows this stark geography-is-health-destiny reality: the worse-than-average states, the Fund found, run from Nevada southeast to Arizona, through New Mexico and Texas all the way to Atlantic Ocean and the Carolinas, then north

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2018

“We are at a remarkable point of cancer treatment,” noted Murray Aitken, Executive Director, IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, in a call with media this week. 2017 was a banner year of innovative drug launches in oncology, Aitken coined, with more drugs used more extensively, driving improved patient for people dealing with cancer.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2018

What could $28,166 buy you in 2018? A new car? A year of your child’s college education? A plot of land for your retirement home? Or a year of healthcare for a family of four? Welcome to this year’s edition of the Milliman Medical Index (MMI), one of the most important forecasts of the year in the world of the Health Populi blog and THINK-Health universe.

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