American retailers understand their customers and use data to influence what they buy, what they pay, and when they return for more. With more than 68 percent of the U.S. economy driven by consumer spending, …
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Visionary Elon Musk fears it. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking worried about it. Microsoft’s Bill Gates embraces it. Science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick wrote about androids having the capacity to dream because of it. At HIMSS …
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On February 27, 2017, President Trump said, ”Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.” Well, Mr. President it is complicated and yes, we all knew.
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To best understand the failures of the bill, it is important to understand its shifting of incentives that were modified by ACA.
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Healthcare’s uniqueness stems from its personal and emotional characteristics, and deep ties to our sense of humanity.
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With the advent of EMRs and other sophisticated clinical and administrative HIT systems, each transferred patients comes with an exponentially larger set of patient data, much of it extremely valuable to receiving hospitals and their clinical staff trying to effectively and efficiently manage the limited resources available to treat these very complex patients.
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he ACA evolved from tough negotiations among all healthcare stakeholders.
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To understand our struggle to obtain value from EMRs, it is important to “show you the money.”
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“Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.’ or roughly translated as ‘I have done it longer because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
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Does increased documentation improve outcomes? Does it reduce costs? There exists scant evidence that either of these are true.
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