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Clostridium difficile (klos-TRID-e-um dif-uh-SEEL), often called C. difficile or C. diff impacts 453,000 people every year. And with 29,000 associated deaths, it takes more lives than AIDS and drunk-driving…
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Hand hygiene is the number one line of defense when it comes to controlling the spread of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and infectious disease. Since we know that antibiotic and antimicrobial…
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Rik Heller is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Wello . A self-confessed technology and healthcare geek, Rik has also been called the Grandfather of Active RFID and holds many patents in this area that…
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The #HCBiz Show first address the topic of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) in July 2016 when we asked Infonaut founder Niall Wallace the question: Why are we losing the battle to hospital-acquired…
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The premise behind #HCBiz was, and still is, that we can't "just innovate". Sure, you may have a great idea, an all-star team and execute flawlessly, but if you don't understand the complex dynamics of the…
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Join us on Wednesday, December, 7 at 12 PM EST for a panel discussion on CMS' $5 Billion per year Open Medicaid IT strategy. CMS wants to move away from long-running, highly expensive, single-vendor projects…
Continue Reading →Dave chase joins co-hosts Don Lee and Shahid Shah to discuss The Big Heist film project. It's healthcare's An Inconvenient Truth + The Big Short/The Daily Show. A satirical, follow-the-money film on the…
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We launched the #hcbiz community with this post in February 2016 . It started with the tweet chat and our goal was to dissect the weekly topics from a very practical stand-point. Our premise was, and still…
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Healthcare was late to the party, but over the past 10-years the industry has converted from an almost exclusively paper-based world to a digital one. With readily available funds i.e. $26 Billion from the…
Continue Reading →The Business of Healthcare Tweet Chat got off to a great start last week. With over 1 Million impressions in just 30 minutes , it’s clear that we’re discussing an important topic. Now we’re adding a regular…
Continue Reading →The national conversation around Healthcare Transformation and Health IT is inspiring. The thinkers, innovators, caregivers and “doers” bring a high-level of passion and energy to moving healthcare forward.…
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