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Artificial intelligence and clinical data: Finding patterns now to shape our future

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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Blockchain: The potential to disrupt complex health system relationships

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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“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” – Does it apply to health care?

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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Working from home: My journey

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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What has the biggest impact on our health?

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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Is health care really broken?

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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Be good to yourself

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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Social determinants of health: Why such a hot topic?

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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Populations, samples and statistical plane crashes

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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Empathy leads to better experiences in health care

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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Time traveling in health care

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 […]

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Down with dashboards! Viva la data revolución!

July 12, 2017 / By Jeremy Zasowski

If your organization is like most, you’re well stocked with dashboards that show your organization’s latest performance metrics. Which numbers are up (DNFB and LOS—Boo!), which numbers are down (CDI […]