Steve Cantwell

I sat down with Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa, global chief medical officer for Solventum, to discuss opportunities and targeted content available for clinicians and quality professionals who attend the 2024 Solventum […]

I sat down with Kaitlyn Crowther, product manager for Solventum to discuss resources and targeted content available for clinical documentation integrity (CDI professionals at the 2024 Solventum Client Experience Summit […]

I sat down with Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa, global chief medical officer for Solventum, formerly 3M Health Care, to explore evolving industry trends in healthcare technology. You recently attended the HIMSS24 […]

I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems VP of revenue cycle solutions Jason Burke to talk about the evolution of clinical documentation integrity (CDI), including trends and ideas […]

In February 2022, the world lost one of its greatest health care innovators. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), died at 62 years old, after a lifetime […]

When I came to 3M Health Information Systems 20 years ago, the vital importance of interoperability—to efficiently exchange health care data—captured my attention right away. At the time I was […]

We’ve all learned some hard lessons from COVID-19, but it will be years before we begin to understand the full impact of COVID-19, both positive and negative. The development speed, […]

COVID-19 will have a profound and permanent impact on how we interact with other people and with the world at large. This really hit home to me a month ago. […]

My 83-year-old mother recently returned from a two-month cruise of the South Pacific—Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and more. She’s active and bright and healthy and could easily pass for […]

On a recent business trip to New York City, I take a taxi to JFK Airport from Lower Manhattan in late afternoon traffic. The cab driver tunes into a radio […]

I have learned countless lessons about perception from my son who is on the autism spectrum. He has helped me better understand how we can inadvertently misinterpret or misuse healthcare […]

In my previous blog, I took a hard look at the impact of mental health and substance abuse on hospital readmissions, especially the torrent of patients with these issues coming […]

My physician neighbor works in several urban emergency departments where mental illness and substance abuse cases run rampant. When I ask him about the impact on readmissions, he lights up: […]

Late one night this April, my good friend and work associate finds it so difficult to breathe she wakes her husband to drive her to Emergency. One day she’s on […]

My oldest son is on the autism spectrum which brings him both challenges and unique skills, such as perfect pitch and encyclopedic memory. One of his gifts is an ability […]

You’ve probably noticed it’s been a bumpy regulatory ride for bundled payments of late. On November 30, 2017, CMS cancelled two “mandatory” bundled payment programs that targeted cardiac and joint […]