The Affordable Care Act is dropping 32 million additional patients into the U.S. healthcare system. This means the war for talent is on, and if you’re not thinking ahead then you’re already behind. Unfortunately a horde of new patients isn’t the only issue facing healthcare recruiting. The skills gap is also making competition for the […]
DENVER — Being a doctor in America is changing, in part because of Obamacare and also because of longer trends in the practice of medicine. Drs. Robert and Michael Sawyer practice at Denver Health, the city’s big public hospital downtown. Sawyers have worked or taught here as physicians since the 1930s, so they have a […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
I was watching the Super Bowl Sunday night and lost interest after Bruno Mars’ very nice halftime concert so I started picking up some “Read it Later” articles I saved late last year; one specifically caught my eye. In December the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that Avon is pulling the plug on a $125 million […]
Cost reduction, patient satisfaction, knowledge sharing and reducing medical errors are among the top goals driving innovation at hospitals and health systems, according to a new report by HIMSS and Avia. Clinical decision support, disease management, care coordination, patient follow-up and shared decision making have been the top innovation priorities for providers and are areas […]
It was a very brief 15 minutes but I had arrived early. There they were, sitting in our conference room, waiting to be interviewed for a residency position at our institution. They had come from far and wide: California, New York, Michigan, for instance – all dressed in their nicest suits or business attire – […]
The meeting was remarkable. It’s not normal to get nine cardiologists to sit down with this many important hospital people. There was a CEO and CFO, two vice presidents, and a ‘consultant,’ a man who sported a nice suit but said no words. We gathered to discuss major issues in healthcare, things like budgets, pro […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
It goes without saying that caregivers are not interchangeable. Quality matters. What else is there other than our health? From the day I began as a doctor, the absence of a legitimate meritocracy has been a source of inflammation. In 1996, when I started private practice, referrals depended too much on old-boy networks. In 2014, […]
For Travis Hill, it was an offer too good to refuse. Last year when the 30-year-old neuroscientist was admitted to a new program at New York University that would allow him to complete medical school in only three years and guarantee him a spot in its neurosurgery residency, he seized it. Not only would Hill […]
Andrew Schlafly, attorney for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the group who sued the American Board of Medical Specialties over the Maintenance of Certification process, recently described (video – scroll ahead to 5min, 30 sec) the scene in court: “When I sued the ABMS and six attorneys showed up on the other […]
Dr. Karen DeSalvo (@KBDeSalvo), the Health Commissioner for New Orleans, who helped rebuild the city’s health system following Hurricane Katrina, has been named the new National Coordinator. The healthcare technology news development came from the Department of Health and Human Services. A statement from Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said: “Dr. DeSalvo’s […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
A friend recently asked me why I am so hard on doctors. “You write a lot of negative stuff about us,” he said. That worries me. I am not a nihilist. I believe in what we do. I put doctoring decidedly in the noble category, right alongside teachers. In fact, my attachment to doctoring is […]
Dorathy Senay’s doctor had some bad news after her last checkup, but it wasn’t about her serious blood disorder called amyloidosis. Her Medicare Advantage managed care plan from UnitedHealthcare/AARP is terminating the doctor’s contract Feb. 1. She is also losing her oncologist at the prestigious Yale Medical Group — the entire 1,200 physician practice was […]
eClinical Works is hiring 100 software developers as part of an effort to strengthen its patient engagement platform and population health solutions. It’s investing $50 million to make that happen over the next 12 months. It may take a while. The demand for IT professionals is rising and healthcare IT is contributing in a big […]
‘Alarming’ Physician Shortages Lie Ahead, according to a HealthLeaders headline that’s bound to raise your blood pressure. Chances are you’ve seen even scarier articles about the looming nursing shortage, with predictions of a shortage of hundreds of thousands of nurses in the coming decades. We do have serious doctor and nurse workforce issues in this […]
The November Health Affairs theme issue, Redesigning the Health Care Workforce, is especially good. Much of what I’ve seen written elsewhere on the topic focuses on alleviating a (purported) looming shortages of doctors or nurses by training more of them, or by having people with less training than doctors, e.g., NPs and PAs take on […]