Can Health IT’s Newest Ideas Reduce Cost, Improve Quality and Facilitate Patient Engagement?

Can Health IT’s Newest Ideas Reduce Cost, Improve Quality and Facilitate Patient Engagement? Billed as ‘the most comprehensive and authoritative knowledge event in healthcare IT today’, the HIMSS12 Annual Conference commenced this week.  Borrowing from the success of the TED conferences, the event was kicked-off by Twitter cofounder and innovator, Biz Stone.  Careful to point [...]

Kick-starting Healthcare Innovation with TEDMED2012

Kick-starting Healthcare Innovation with TEDMED2012 Having just written about crowdsourcing for healthcare innovation, I was intrigued by a recent tweet for the TEDMED2012 Conference.  Landing on the TED home page, I found myself selecting a link for Lucien Engelen’s presentation, “Crowdsourcing for Your Health”. As the former Dutch Health 2.0 Ambassador, Engelen is also the [...]

Crowdsourcing for Healthcare Innovation

Crowdsourcing for Healthcare Innovation In Robert Berenson, MD and Nicole Cafarella’s article, Is the CMS Innovation Center Innovating Too Fast?, the authors note that, “One of the few health policy issues that receives bipartisan support is the need to dramatically alter the way providers are paid, shifting from “paying for volume” to “paying for value” [...]

Collaborative Care for Living Well with Chronic Disease

Collaborative Care for Living Well with Chronic Disease In observance of National Wear Red Day, Americans will wear red to show their support for women’s heart health.  Poor heart health can lead to congestive heart failure, one of the leading chronic illnesses estimated to represent 75 percent of the $2 trillion in U.S. annual health [...]