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The Latest Health Wonk Review at Healthcare Talent Transformation

The Latest Health Wonk Review at Healthcare Talent Transformation

“Will a government shutdown stop ObamaCare?” and many other timely topics are reviewed in the latest edition of the Health Wonk review.

Healthcare Transformation: Coping With the Neutral Zone

Healthcare Transformation: Coping With the Neutral Zone

I’m being asked the same series of questions a lot lately: Do you think the changes occurring in US healthcare are real? Are we truly moving away from rewarding volume of care under fee-for-service (FFS) and toward value-based payment and delivery? Are the changes past the point of no return? Will the economic interests of the powers-that-be prevent real change from happening, just as they have done in the past?

Healthcare Social Media: Real Engagement or Fluff?

Healthcare Social Media: Real Engagement or Fluff?

Would your personal experiences and observations of healthcare social media indicate that real engagement is generally occurring, or to-date Is it mostly just promotion and marketing “fluff” that is being facilitated – and how can healthcare engagement objectives be better met?

Healthcare Unbound PowerPoint Presentation: “Replatforming Healthcare”

The Rules are changing. Eight new rules are guiding healthcare disruptors…

10th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, Denver, July 11/12

10th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, Denver, July 11/12

This nationally recognized conference and exhibition focuses on technology-enabled consumer engagement and behavior change. Topics to be covered included innovative applications of remote monitoring, home telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, social media and gaming to help manage diseases, promote wellness and facilitate accountable care.

My Health Information Should PRECEDE Me, Not Just Follow Me

My Health Information Should PRECEDE Me, Not Just Follow Me

To state the obvious, there are times when the value of information depends on timing. Sometimes information needs to be provided in advance.

Quiz: Is Healthcare Next on the List?

Quiz: Is Healthcare Next on the List?

What do address books, video cameras, pagers, wristwatches, maps, books, travel games, flashlights, home telephones, cash registers, Walkmen, day timers, alarm clocks, answering machines, The Yellow Pages, wallets, keys, transistor radios, personal digital assistants, dashboard navigation systems, newspapers and magazines, directory assistance, travel and insurance agents, restaurant guides and pocket calculators all have in common?

Health Wonk Review at Managed Care Matters

Health Wonk Review at Managed Care Matters

The latest and best on the healthcare blogosphere is featured on Joe Paduda’s blog — Managed Care Matters.

3 Critical Elements of Clinical Collaboration

3 Critical Elements of Clinical Collaboration

A colleague recently wrote to me and asked me my definition of “collaboration”.

Editorial: A Duty to Share Patient Information

by Vince Kuraitis and Leslie Kelly Hall, Senior Vice President, Policy, Healthwise.

The sharing of patient information in the US is out of whack — we lean far too much toward hoarding information vs. sharing it. While care providers have an explicit duty to protect patient confidentiality and privacy, two things are missing:

the explicit recognition of a corollary duty to share patient information with other providers when doing so is the patient’s interests, and
a recognition that there is potential tension between […]