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There are many ways to innovate within an existing organization. However, it can be difficult to move as fast as you'd like within the constructs of an established business model and culture. For one, it's…
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Just about every health system has an innovation program, but how do they know if it’s making a difference? That’s the question we set out to explore with the team from Houston Methodist Center for Innovation.…
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I often hear people say "We don't need incremental innovation in healthcare. We need transformational innovation". That statement doesn't sit well with me. I believe in the power of incremental…
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Health Systems are being asked to make changes in 2 months that would have otherwise taken years. As some business lines come screeching to a halt, others have sped to a breakneck pace. Prioritizing problems…
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Many doctor’s offices have been closed for weeks and those that haven’t have seen massive cancellations. This episode is for healthcare providers and people working inside health offices. Today we’re going to…
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Surescripts is at the center of almost all prescriptions for medications in the US. In this era, when almost no other kind of prescriptions are being allowed, how is Surescripts thinking about digital…
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The Opportunity Zones incentive is a new community investment tool to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide. Nightingale is accelerating the health care…
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Today's episode is about how the Rural Risk-Free Solution helps rural hospitals and health systems take on risk faster to achieve value-based care. The methodology is a community / population health approach.…
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Health systems have been working hard to lay the foundation for taking on a larger case mix of value-based contracts. 75% of health systems surveyed said they are ready to accept downside risk in the next two…
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The quantification of how social determinants effect health has finally put enough pressure on healthcare organizations to force action. Finally discovering what social workers have known for years, the health…
Continue Reading →For long time listeners of this show, you know we’re in the business of helping entrepreneurs understand how to create use case alignment, how to get over the hump of defeating good marketers with a not so…
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Missed part 1? Check it out here: The Medicaid Transformation Project with David Smith - Part 1 . The Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP) is a national effort to transform healthcare and…
Continue Reading →The Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP) is a national effort to transform healthcare and address related social needs for the most vulnerable. Throughout this two-year mission, health systems will…
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There are two types of innovation. First, there's innovation in the underlying technology, tools or components that can be used to do something. Let's call it local innovation . This ussually starts…
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On this episode we recap the 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference (#JPM18), the Health 2.0 WinterTech event and talk about the "festival" that J.P. Morgan Week becomes in San Francisco. We cover the…
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They say that civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them. To me, that's the promise of technology and it's particularly true when it comes to…
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On this episode of The #hcbiz Show! we talk with Roger A. Maduro and David Perara of Open Health News about the $7.5 Billion/yr Medicaid Open Health IT initiative. The state-based Medicaid Management…
Continue Reading →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…
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On this episode, Niam Yaraghi (Brookings Institute) joins me and Shahid Shah to discuss the future of healthcare and Health IT under the Trump administration and the Republican controlled congress. We cover…
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Co-host Shahid Shah attended the IBM World of Watson conference in Las Vegas this week. He was very impressed by the show IBM put on. He was even more impressed by the real-world demos he saw from…
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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 →There's a lot of pressure being applied to the healthcare industry today. There are penalties for readmissions within 30-days of discharge, reduced (or non) reimbursement for harm due to clinical error (i.e. …
Continue Reading →American Medical Association CEO Dr. James Madara took some shots at digital health at the AMA annual meeting in Chicago last week. He said: “Today we have really remarkable tools -- robotic surgery, new…
Continue Reading →Two John Halamka posts caught my attention this week: Making a Difference and A Time of Uncertainty . Both posts ponder where the next round of innovations will come from. Given the ever-changing regulatory…
Continue Reading →OK my #hcbiz friends, I have suggested reading for you and I strongly urge you to take me up on it. Software Eats Healthcare, For Dummies by Alex Danco has my brain going in high-gear tonight. It’s one of…
Continue Reading →Years ago I worked on one of those not so good software development projects. It was a 1-year job that turned into a 2-year job. The client kept changing requirements (or we kept capturing them wrong,…
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