At the Mayo Clinic’s annual Transform conference in Rochester, Minn., hundreds of healthcare professionals and providers took to Twitter to share numerous insights gleaned from the panels, from trends in technology to accuracy in diagnosis to the affordability of healthcare and population health. Here’s a sampling of just a few:
It’s important to bring down barriers with the disengaged. But one should go upstream and find why they are that way. #TXFM
MT @MStempniak: Patients look at their phones 100 times a day. Why not insert health-related messages into that stream? @jkvedar #TXFM #hcsm
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— Matthew Diener (@MatthewDiener) September 8, 2014
Patients are looking at their phones100 times a day. Why not insert health-related messages somewhere in that stream? @jkvedar #TXFM — Marty Stempniak (@MStempniak) September 8, 2014
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I think we can make health addictive. I think we need to make health addictive. @jkvedar #TXFM
— IITInstituteofDesign (@IITDesign) September 8, 2014
Shameless self promotion:
Panel on affordability in #healthcare: “people fear the cost of getting better more than they fear the disease itself.” #TXFM — Dan Verel (@DanVerel) September 8, 2014
“Most frustrating thing about being a doc re tele-health is the only way I can be reimbursed is with an in person visit” #txfm — linda singh (@lsingher) September 8, 2014
RT @nxtstop1 @joyclee Most commonly missed diagnoses #txfm pic.twitter.com/hut9Ttl9zl
— CareSync (@caresync) September 8, 2014
I want someone who’s on my side. Not my employer’s side, not the insurance company’s side. My side. #TXFM #txfm2014 — Samantha Duke (@dukeofyour) September 8, 2014
“Stop thinking about mobile tech as young ppl devices, just like u should stop thinking about veterans as old” @geoffclapp #TXFM #rethink
— Better (@betterPHA) September 8, 2014
“Business as usual masquerades as innovation.” Couldn’t agree more. Excellent discussion with Dan Seewald from @pfizer #TXFM — tree rings (@Dr_Arring) September 8, 2014
‘When everything is called innovation, nothing is innovation’ – Dan Seewald trying to get people to think differently @MayoInnovation #TXFM
— Evangelia Balanou (@dhGelly) September 8, 2014
Health disparities follow social & economic disparities – Thomas Fisher, M.D., our VP of New Consumer Health Strategies & Research #TXFM — HCSC (@HCSC) September 8, 2014
@LisaSandersmd: “Doctors are routinely wrong on their way to being right… that’s just part of the process.” #txfm pic.twitter.com/grae7K2Vpz
— frisbee (@frisbeejackson) September 8, 2014
Nearly 1/2 of Fortune 50 companies are healthcare new entrants. – @VaughnKauffman #TXFM … supports the notion that most disruption… — Melissa Young (@MelissaYoungATX) September 8, 2014
Dan Verel writes about how hospitals and health insurance companies are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to transform the industry -- from health IT to telemedicine to healthcare social media.
Previously, he was a reporter at the North Bay Business Journal, where he covered healthcare, insurance, HR and employment, law and hospitality and tourism. His byline’s also appeared in the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is based in San Francisco.
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