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Mandating compliance in healthcare is a poor trigger for culture change

September 22, 2016 By Edgar Wilson 2 Comments

Mandating compliance in healthcare is a poor trigger for culture change

Culture does not evolve to accommodate law; typically, the opposite occurs. Consider Prohibition in the United States: popular movements grew and escalated until they were able to achieve the passage of a Constitutional amendment—a rarity in the history of the country. Then, ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: affordable care act, EHRs, healthcare change, value-based care

Success of value-based care relies too much on physicians

August 23, 2016 By Edgar Wilson Leave a Comment

Success of value-based care relies too much on physicians

That’s the message built-in to most contemporary policy, initiatives, and programs, and the source of much professional atrophy and distress among caregivers. No matter the end goal – increase EHR adoption, shift to quality metrics from volume, record sharing and ...

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Filed Under: 3 Tagged With: ACA, accountable care, doctors, health care, health literacy, healthcare, Obamacare, value-based care

Health IT leader and patient quantifies the waste of time in healthcare

August 17, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Health IT leader and patient quantifies the waste of time in healthcare

"I aspire to change the world and be a legend in my own time. Dr. Seuss' 'Oh the Places You'll Go' is my life primer. Winston Churchill quotes inspire me. You (probably) inspire me." – Jess Jacobs Maybe Jess Jacobs will inspire you – to innovate the patient experience. In 2013, ...

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Filed Under: 3, healthcare innovation, Healthcare IT, Patient Engagement Tagged With: Jess Jacobs, Lean Healthcare, Patient Engagement, patient experience, value-based care

Value-based health care needs a farsighted strategy

July 21, 2016 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

Value-based health care needs a farsighted strategy

It's hard to believe my mother is turning 80. We talk often about her health, and her health care. She tells me, "I like my doctors because they are in tune with my needs." "All of them?" I ask. "Yes," she says, "They all take their time, answer all my questions, and provide all ...

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Filed Under: 3, Health care, healthcare innovation, Patient Engagement Tagged With: foresight, healthcare leaders, healthcare strategy, Patient Engagement, patient experience, quality of life measures, value-based care

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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