Bringing Ski Patrol Lessons to Healthtech Entrepreneurship
Three things ski patrol can teach about building a business
Why Specialty-Specific Measurement and Intervention Are Essential to Address Healthcare Burnout
The opportunity ahead is to treat physician well-being as a core strategic priority, measured with the same rigor and acted upon with the same urgency as any other critical performance domain.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
What ‘The Pitt’ Gets Right About Emergency Medicine — and What It Reveals About Healthcare IT
Some of the most powerful scenes aren’t the dramatic saves, but the quiet moments when clinicians connect with patients amid the chaos. Healthcare teams deserve access systems that allow for more of those moments.
From Silos to Synthesis: How the Information Renaissance is Transforming Emergency Medicine
In the shift from isolated expertise to collective insights, shared data are revolutionizing patient care in EMS and hospitals.
Healthcare Staff are Digital Workers Now: They Need a Better Experience
Healthcare workers are already navigating issues with lack of interoperability between systems, staff and providers, and concerns about patient data privacy and security. IT teams and healthcare systems can alleviate some anxiety by giving workers the best performing digital user experience, including physicians and other staff that share responsibility for patient care.
A tale of two hospitals amid Covid-19
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, two emergency physicians in Seattle and Sacramento shared what cases they’re seeing and what strategies they’re using to prepare for the virus.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
As ultrasound via mobile gets FDA clearance, will its impact be similar to camera phone?
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, founder and chairman of Butterfly Network, predicted the device's impact would be not unlike the milestone development of camera phones.
Houston EMS gets to ‘mobile integrated healthcare’ with telemedicine triage
The program outfits EMTs with 4G-enabled tablets that connect to 9-1-1 services, the University of Texas Health Science Center, a nurse help line, a network of primary care clinics (for the purpose of getting people into medical homes) and even to a taxi service for transportation.
ER docs fight back against Cigna ‘TV doctors’ ad (watch)
"We're asking the insurance industry to give us and our patients fair coverage for value," said Houston ER physician Dr. Alison Haddock.
UC San Diego reimagines geriatric emergency care
Seniors require different type of emergency care, and that is leading UCSD to create a geriatric ER dedicated to them. Two physicians involved in the project will speak at MedCity ENGAGE in San Diego in October.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Report calls for closer collaboration between civilian, military sectors to improve trauma care
Trauma injuries are the leading cause of death for civilian Americans younger than 46, the committee said, but injury research drew less than 1 percent of the National Institutes of Health’s biomedical research budget in 2015.
Philips sets up global health innovation center at Texas A&M
The overall collaboration is part of a state-funded pilot project at Texas A&M called Healthy South Texas, which focuses on preventing diabetes, asthma and infectious diseases in 27 counties in South Texas.
Apps help emergency rooms offer shared decision-making
Mobile apps are helping to accelerate the shift.
Speech recognition helps Indiana ED go paperless
The emergency department, perhaps the most chaotic place in any hospital, has been completely paperless at Community Hospital Anderson, in Anderson, Indiana, since 2011. What's more, the ED achieved this without putting computers between clinicians and patients.
MedCity ENGAGE begins with red carpets, independent films and healthcare’s hard realties
Click to expand the slideshow to full screen and click ‘Show Info’ at the top of the box to see the names of people shown in slideshow. The issues facing all hospitals are myriad and increasingly complex, but for public hospitals that treat a disproportionate share of uninsured, most vulnerable patients and serve as the […]