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Definition of Health Insurance: Confusion, Obfuscation, Bewilderment
The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance revealed a mixed report on patient views on their health insurance. The survey polled persons covered by employer-sponsored plans (ESI), Medicare, Medicaid, and plans purchased at a...
NtC 15: Can We Really Fix Healthcare?
https://vimeo.com/836650428 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey In a previous NtC episode, I shared my thoughts on the need for a new normal in healthcare to address the challenges and, to quote Hamlet, its...
Being Patient-Centered Leveraging Value-Based Care
(Download a PDF of this article) As healthcare delivery evolves, the focus shifts from a volume-based model, where the number of services provided determines the compensation, to a value-based model, where the quality of care is paramount. Traditionally, healthcare...
NtC 14: Build Our New Normal
https://vimeo.com/836650538 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey The pandemic of 2020 upended our lives and created a new normal for how we go about our daily lives. As we emerge from that time, what have we...
Unleashing Precision Medicine to Deliver Personalize Care
(Download a PDF of this article) Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a modern approach to healthcare that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. This approach allows doctors and researchers to...
NtC 13: Only Those Who Adapt and Change Survive
https://vimeo.com/832449107 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey Healthcare is undoubtedly one of our most complex industries, with its many inputs and outputs and impact on patients, families, and the people...
Turn and Face the Strange, Changes
(Download a PDF of this article) Implementing change in a healthcare setting is a complex endeavor, with the challenges varying significantly between staff who provide direct patient care and those who do not. For those providing direct patient care, changes in...
NtC 12: The Healthcare IT Conundrum
https://vimeo.com/832449163 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey Healthcare ranks as a high-knowledge and technology-intensive industry. The range of high knowledge and technology-intensive devices for...
Deadly Medication Shortages: Time for a Fix
(Download a PDF of this article) The United States is currently grappling with a critical issue that threatens the health and well-being of its citizens: a shortage of essential medications. This crisis has been escalating over the past few years and has severe...
NtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution
https://vimeo.com/823226262 NtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution When the Beatles released their song "Revolution", the radical political left severely criticized it. John Lennon, the song's author, sympathized with the need for change but rejected using violence to...
How Healthcare Caught FHIR
(Download a PDF of this article) The exchange of patient information is a crucial aspect of healthcare delivery, enabling clinicians and other healthcare professionals to access critical information about a patient's health status and medical history. However,...
NtC 10: A Platform to Leverage Revolutionary Healthcare IT
https://vimeo.com/823231814 Ntc 10: A Platform to Leverage Revolutionary Healthcare IT Let me start with what I define as revolutionary healthcare information technology. It offers clinicians, researchers, and administrators potent tools to drive the clinical and...
Best Medical AI: Cognitive Computing or Large Language Models?
(Download a PDF of this document) Cognitive computing and large language models are two approaches to AI that are often used interchangeably but are different. Cognitive computing is a broad category of AI technologies that mimic human cognition and problem-solving...
NtC 9: Navigating the Modern-Day Hippocratic Code
https://vimeo.com/823182411 Ntc 9: Navigating the Modern-Day Hippocratic Code In episode 3 of this series, I shared the pillars of a new, expanded Hippocratic Code updated for today’s information-driven healthcare. The Code includes four mission-critical tenets:...
With AI the Doctor Can See You Now
(Download a PDF of this article) As healthcare becomes increasingly complex and patient needs grow more diverse, patients demand more convenient, personalized, and efficient services. Improvement in physician appointment scheduling can improve patient satisfaction and...
NtC 8: How Much is that PET Scan in the WIndow?
https://vimeo.com/821481302 Anyone who has run a company knows that paying close attention to expenses is critical to the business's long-term survival. Let's take a coffee shop as an example. The owner must know the monthly rental fee, the prices of his supplies,...
Analytics Helps Maximize the Use of a Hospital’s Limited Assets
(Download a PDF of the article) Analytics has revolutionized how we approach various business and healthcare management. In healthcare, efficiently utilizing resources such as facilities, equipment, and staff is critical to providing the best medical care to patients....
NtC 7: Isn’t It Really Just About the Outcome?
https://vimeo.com/817960958 Ask any physician, and they will say that a positive outcome is, preferably, the successful treatment of a patient’s illness or the completion of the appropriate therapeutic intervention. A patient’s response will vary depending on...