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April 2, 2018 / By Kristine Daynes
Perhaps it’s true that we tend to see what we expect to see. In my job, I work with healthcare quality measures. Given this bias, my scan of the media […]
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March 19, 2018 / By Steve Cantwell
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 […]
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March 12, 2018 / By AJ Dandrea
What if the only way to create complete healthcare relationships among providers, payers, and patients required something different than what has been tried in the past? And, instead of policy […]
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Feb. 7, 2018 / By Steve Delaronde
Business management guru Peter Drucker is credited with saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The message is that an organization will not adopt any change or effectively pursue any […]
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Dec. 28, 2017 / By Pamela Ewing, CPC
Just as my life was rolling along smoothly….my life abruptly changed. I suddenly found myself raising my one-year-old grandson, Jay. My sister became very ill and was not able to […]
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Nov. 29, 2017 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
Last month, I wrote about my experience with The Texas Medical Center and the loss of my mother. One reader questioned whether the healthcare system is working (as I maintained […]
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Oct. 25, 2017 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
For those of you who are my regular readers, first, thank you so much! Second, you know I can get personal at times. This is going to be one of […]
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Sept. 27, 2017 / By Kelly Long, BS, CPC, CPCO, CAPM
I have been told since the start of my coding career (21 years gasp!), that there are no coding emergencies. That it won’t “hurt” to wait until the next day […]
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Sept. 25, 2017 / By Gretchen Mills
I’ve been following many recent articles about the increased interest in social determinants of health. This topic caught my attention a few years ago when I came across the pioneering […]
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Aug. 16, 2017 / By Ryan Butterfield, DrPH, MBA
Ryan Butterfield’s co-author on this blog is Melissa Gottschalk, a Research Analyst 2 on a team within the Clinical and Economic Research group for 3M Health Information Systems. Carl Friedrich […]
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Aug. 9, 2017 / By Andy Vitale
How can user experience designers who don’t have clinical backgrounds work to create better experiences for healthcare providers, payers and patients? Design is about understanding the emotions of the user, […]
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July 17, 2017 / By Barbara Zellerino
I just finished reading a book titled “All Our Wrong Todays” by Elan Mastai. It is the story of a young, single man in his early 30s who is pretty […]