| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.09.2024 | Bridging the Gap: Innovations in Gastrointestinal and Cancer Care | In the evolving landscape of healthcare, partnerships are becoming the lifeblood of effective patient care. Two recent developments highlight this trend: the collaboration between Gastrointestinal Specialists of Troy, Michigan, and Oshi Hea... |
| 10.09.2024 | Community Oncology Alliance Releases Quality and Value Standards in Cancer Care | Standards Provide a Roadmap for Practices to Assess Their Operations, Consider Participation in Quality Certification Programs, and Have Discussions with Key Stakeholders
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Community Oncology All... |
| 10.09.2024 | Gastrointestinal Specialists of Troy, Michigan Taps Oshi Health to Expand Practice Access and Multidisciplinary Care Options | Gastrointestinal Specialists Partners with Oshi Health for Multidisciplinary Care
Partnership demonstrates the power of hybrid multidisciplinary care to improve patient experiences and outcomes, as well as practice efficiency and economics
... |
| 19.01.2024 | Complex Care Certificate Trains Inter-Professional Teams and Strengthens Ecosystem of Care for Vulnerable People with Complex Health and Social Needs | The Kaiser Permanente Fund at East Bay Community Foundation has made curriculum available to 2,000 learners in teams at California safety net healthcare and social service organizations
This curriculum is an important investment for health ... |
| 14.07.2023 | Achieving Healthcare’s Quintuple Aim Through Medication Adherence | Jason Z. Rose, MHSA, is CEO of AdhereHealth, an innovative technology company dedicated to transforming healthcare. |
| 31.01.2023 | Clinical Trial Results Demonstrate Oshi Health’s Multidisciplinary GI Care Improves Patient Outcomes with Savings Greater than $10,000 Per Patient Within Six Months | Oshi Health is virtual multidisciplinary digestive health care “The results from this study demonstrate that providing access to multidisciplinary care leads to meaningful improvements in patient outcomes, satisfaction, and quality of life ... |
| 28.12.2022 | How value-based payments to clinicians can help close equity gaps | The U.S. health system has been evolving over the past decade to focus on the quality and value of care. Until recently, though, value-based payment models have not explicitly addressed longstanding racial and ethnic inequities in care.
Thi... |
| 28.03.2022 | Why Health Equity Matters And How Data And Incentives Can Help Us Achieve It | Sara Ratner, Senior Vice President of Government Markets and Strategic Initiatives at Icario |
| 19.11.2021 | Health plans, insurers need to make addressing racial inequities in health care part of their core work | Health care companies and organizations across the country are grappling with health inequities, spurred by devastating disparities in the pandemic’s toll as well as the overdue reckoning with racial injustice that has followed the murder o... |
| 11.08.2021 | Doctors pledge to do no harm. The entire health care sector should do the same by battling climate change | The alarming new report, “Climate Change 2021,” from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphatically and unequivocally reports that “human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” The next few years will determi... |
| 04.08.2021 | Use systems redesign and the law to prevent medical errors and accidents | This summer, surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland transplanted a donor kidney into the wrong patient, while the patient the kidney had been destined for had to go back on the waiting list for another one to become available.
The mo... |
| 27.07.2021 | Drug discovery company works with ethnobotanists and data scientists | Image: Shutterstock/Marchu Studio More must-read AI coverage
NVIDIA moves to front of the AI pack
AI investments soared in 2021, but big problems remain
Forrester: AI may be used to enhance enterprise creativity
4 automation-focused IT care... |
| 26.04.2021 | Why the interoperability final rule is the first step toward patient-centric care | As healthcare systems determine how to most effectively navigate the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, there are a few key best practices to keep in mind. But first, it’s important to understand why this ruling is significant ... |
| 09.04.2021 | New Press Ganey Report Warns That Covid-19 May Have Worsened Hospital Safety | Hospitals are complicated places. Hospital in Tarzana, CA in January - (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) ... [+] (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| 30.01.2021 | Disciplinary actions against doctors have plunged during the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean they are behaving | The health-care profession is under unprecedented stress due to the pandemic, but disciplinary actions against doctors logged in a national database have inexplicably plunged .
Some experts believe the drop is the result of an acute shortag... |
| 08.10.2020 | Money Doesn’t Lead To Happiness In Law – Here Is What Does | Nicola Forenza |
| 22.09.2020 | What Digital Health Entrepreneurs And Investors Can Do To Combat Disparities In Health | In 2002 the average life expectancy for a person born in the United States had reached 77 years old, an increase of 7 years over a forty year period, reflecting an impressive 10 percent gain. Yet beneath the surface, there were glaring disp... |
| 09.03.2020 | Doctors working while sick is bad enough in ordinary times. During the Covid-19 outbreak it could be catastrophic | Earlier this winter, before the coronavirus outbreak, I spoke by phone with a colleague who was about to start work for two weeks as an attending physician at a major medical center. As we spoke, she was coughing and I could hear that she w... |
| 20.02.2020 | Approaches to complex care innovation are ‘naïve and insufficient.’ We need systems and design thinking | I was a second-year medical school student when I encountered my first patient with GRID — gay-related immune deficiency. The year was 1982, and the disease that would soon be called AIDS was an epidemic still in its infancy. With his skin ... |
| 24.01.2020 | Defeating doctor burnout: It’s the systems, silly! | Technology can either contribute to clinician burnout or be a boon for clinicians serving patients. It all depends on the quality of the technologies that doctors are required to use.
The finding puts added urgency on the need for payers to... |
| 04.04.2019 | Delivering operational command centers: improve patient access, throughput and financial stability for health systems | An essential part of providing quality medical care is providing timely care. With limited resources and frequently a shortage of employees, patients start to see their wait times steadily increase leading to patients waiting for the care t... |
| 02.10.2018 | Hospital Culture: 4 Best Practices for Evidence-based Medicine Adoption | Does your organization follow evidence-based care guidelines? Do you currently utilize evidence-based content in your EHR? Do your clinicians embrace practices based on the best and most current clinical evidence?
If your hospital has not y... |
| 30.01.2018 | Pay for performance: a dangerous health policy fad that won’t die | Pay for performance, the catchall term for policies that purport to pay doctors and hospitals based on quality and cost measures, has been taking a bashing.
Last November, University of Pittsburgh and Harvard researchers published a major s... |
| 17.03.2017 | To better focus on patient safety, healthcare nonprofits merge | “The senior management of both organizations felt that in some senses, we were doing similar work and there were some ways our work was different and that together we could more effectively do the work that we’re doing,” Mate explained in a... |
| 21.09.2016 | Neighborhoods influence health, for better and for worse | “Promise me he won’t die here,” my patient’s daughter begged me. In her eyes was a fear born of familiarity: She’d seen too many of her family and neighbors die in a hospital. Just last year, her mother was admitted to the intensive care un... |
| 27.07.2016 | Healthcare staffing startup backed by Business Insider co-founder views telemedicine as next market opportunity | “Our core product is a marketplace that allows doctors to search for jobs and clinics to search for doctors,” Nazem said.
An algorithm matches the needs of hospitals with the most qualified clinicians based on licensing, dates available, sp... |
| 14.06.2016 | No, there is not any ‘snake oil’ on the road ahead in digital health | Let’s take a brief look at the history of national healthcare IT efforts from 2004-2016 to understand how we’ve achieved exactly the results we designed.
In 2004, National Coordinator Dr. David Brailer wrote, “The Decade of Health Informati... |
| 14.06.2016 | 5 powerful women in African tech you probably never heard of | Share this article:
A few months back, I penned a rather controversial list of Nigerian women in tech. The inclusion of the almighty Linda Ikeji sparked a heated debate across social media platforms. But whether we think Linda Ikeji is a fe... |
| 22.02.2016 | How one hospital is beating sepsis and saving lives | When it comes to under-the-radar killers, sepsis is at or near the top of the list. It can begin quietly, often looking like the flu, pneumonia, or a urinary tract infection. And then it escalates, quickly erupting into widespread infection... |
| 04.09.2015 | Morning Read: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants $9.6M to reduce newborn mortality in Ethiopia | PAYERS-PROVIDERS
CVS Health Corp. has stated that its decision in September 2014 to stop selling tobacco products has led to a 1 percent decrease in cigarette sales in some states where the pharmacy chain has a significant presence. Conside... |
| 27.05.2015 | Change is good, but let’s remember: Innovation follows inspiration, not technology | I’m not really a technology guy. My choices in gizmos reflect this…the intuitive Apple computer, Zoom videoconferencing, athenahealth’s EMR, etc… My view of “meaningful use” is very different than that of the Department of Health and Human ... |
| 27.04.2015 | Brace for impact on Celladon, a hospital is giving out Apple Watches (Morning Read) | You saw it coming: “Nearly 40% of doctors, other providers with Medicare patients will have payments docked 1.5% this year after failing to submit data,” CMS says.
LIFE SCIENCE
Is it Theranos backlash? Or is it something worse?
Bristol-Myer... |
| 03.02.2015 | The hidden digital health opportunities in Obamacare | I’ve worked in digital health for a while (I’m the co-founder of digital health start-up Care at Hand and a physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center), so I was as surprised as you may be when I discovered a tough tr... |
| 04.12.2014 | Improving medical errors by making interoperability a reality | Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send your story about medical errors and interoperability to yourstory@westhealth.org.
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| 27.09.2013 | Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and – you guessed it – culture change | Conversation about how and why he compiled the report was a jump-off point for some specific ideas around how physicians, vendors and patients can incite culture change.
Better reporting tools
Hospitals currently use something called the IH... |
| 20.09.2013 | Preventable harm associated with at least 210K deaths in U.S. hospitals annually, NASA scientist’s study shows | Asked about the higher estimates, a spokesman for the American Hospital Association said the group has more confidence in the [Institute of Medicine]’s estimate of 98,000 deaths.* ProPublica asked three prominent patient safety researchers ... |
| 29.08.2013 | Q & A with Dr. Don Berwick on healthcare and political lessons | Here are edited excerpts of that call.
Q: How do you think this report relates to people in Massachusetts. What do they take away from it?
A: Well…this report is not part of the campaign; I had agreed to do it prior to the announcement. But... |
| 26.02.2013 | Physician burnout: Meet patient safety | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
The majority of doctors in America today care deeply about their patients. After all, they’re the ones that have personal relationships with them. They’re the ones who sit with them, speak with them eye to eye,... |
| 05.10.2012 | One doc’s review of EscapeFire: It had drama, pathos, irony, and the graphics were good too! | This weekend, moviegoers can choose the traditional Hollywood action move Taken 2, Tim Burton’s claymation treat, Frankenweenie, or a documentary about healthcare reform. Just in time for election season.
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue Am... |
| 27.09.2012 | On the promotion of hospital-based killing | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
It’s an interesting world in medicine these days. What I read in papers and see in flashy professionally-produced book trailers about hospitals as killing fields boggles the mind. Imagine: there are even full p... |
| 26.09.2012 | Who benefits from selling the idea of hospital-based killing? | But when we see book trailers with fancy aerial shots flying above big cities, close-up cameos of doctors donning face masks, and gushing teaser quotes from provosts of the very university where Mr. Makary practices, editors of the New Engl... |
| 09.07.2012 | Road map for patient-centered care, improving efficiencies focus of new book | Shadowing patients and their families After getting patient permission, look at all the points from the patient’s arrival where they and their families make contact with hospital staff from the parking lot, the receptionist in the doctor’s ... |
| 02.05.2012 | vRad promotes veteran George Morgan to CEO | Personnel Moves | vRad promotes veteran George Morgan to CEO
Minneapolis-based radiologic and telemedicine company Virtual Radiologic promoted 7-year company COO George Morgan to the corner office, effective immediately. Read more
SRS Medical promotes former... |
| 23.01.2012 | India a tempting prospect for med-tech manufacturing | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — As manufacturing costs rise in western nations, BRIC countries like India and China become more alluring for med-tech makers, well-known cardiologist and professor Dr. Balram Bhargava told a Cambridge University lecture... |
| 04.08.2011 | The cost of safety | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
At a time where the nation is struggling with a debt crisis driven in large part by the cost of our health care entitlement programs Medicare and Medicaid, the press reports of larger hospitals with fewer beds ... |
| 14.02.2011 | On Valentine’s Day, the heart keeps both its cultural and medical meaning | Words and how we use them were the focus of Dr. Pauline Chen interview by WIHI host Madge Kaplan this past Thursday, February 10th (H/T Paul Levy): A Legible Prescription for Health
On this edition of WIHI, Dr. Chen wants to spend some time... |
| 16.11.2010 | GOP senators gear up to give Medicare chief Berwick a hard time | Dr. Donald Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is facing a hot seat in Washington, D.C., tomorrow as he prepares for his first appearance in front of the U.S. Senate since a controversial recess appointment in J... |
| 16.11.2010 | CMS head Donald Berwick faces congressional hot seat | Berwick can expect versions of five basic questions tomorrow, according to Republicans interviewed by Politico:
You’ve professed great admiration for Britain’s National Health Service. How have you helped shape that system and do you see it... |
| 09.09.2010 | Four ways to control healthcare spending | Labor Day is swiftly receding in the rear view mirror, a potentially transformative (or at least disruptive) mid-year election is only eight weeks away, and Medicare payment regulations for FY 2011 start to go live (acute inpatient hospital... |
| 09.09.2010 | Four (really 3) ways to control healthcare spending | All three rationalization strategies do have a common dependence upon adoption and utilization of advanced health information technology tools, whether for practice management, sharing of patient records and service information across pract... |
| 18.08.2010 | Donald Berwick: ‘A breath of fresh air’ at CMS | Berwick spent much of his career working on ways to systematically overhaul healthcare systems to improve patient outcomes and safety, also the theme of the colloquium. Straube, highlighting the systemic changes the Affordable Care Act will... |
| 17.08.2010 | CMS CMO: Berwick’s appointment “a breath of fresh air” | Dr. Donald Berwick’s appointment as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services came as “a breath of fresh air” at the agency, according to CMS chief medical officer Dr. Barry Straube.
During a presentation on patient safety at th... |
| 12.08.2010 | Study: Medical errors cost at least $19.5 billion annually in U.S. | Medical errors cost the U.S. economy an estimated $19.5 billion in 2008, according to a study commissioned by the Society of Actuaries.
Seattle-based consulting firm Milliman Inc. compiled medical claims data to provide a measurement of cos... |
| 12.08.2010 | Study: Medical errors cost at least $19.5 billion annually in U.S. | Medical errors cost the U.S. economy an estimated $19.5 billion in 2008, according to a study commissioned by the Society of Actuaries.
Seattle-based consulting firm Milliman Inc. compiled medical claims data to provide a measurement of cos... |
| 21.04.2010 | Obama makes Berwick pick official | President Barack Obama officially nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The position will play a critical role for healthcare reform. Berwick, not a career bureaucrat like many... |
| 01.04.2010 | Berwick’s appointment a boon for medical device makers? | If you’ve been studying the contents of the recently passed healthcare reform legislation, and you’ve looked in vain for the elements that emphatically implement systemic cost control and improvements in quality of care, President Barack Ob... |
| 29.03.2010 | Report: Donald Berwick tapped for top post at CMS | President Barack Obama found a point man for critical healthcare reform initiatives including comparative effectiveness research and cost-control, nominating Dr. Donald Berwick to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se... |
| 28.03.2010 | New CMS chief reportedly to be Donald Berwick | Promoted
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| - | Reducing medical errors will require better reporting tools, engaged patients and – you guessed it – culture change | “Culture change.” Those words just keep coming up again and again in talk about what’s needed to reduce healthcare costs, to make better use of health information technology, and in this case to stop preventable medical errors that harm pat... |
| - | On Valentine’s Day, the heart keeps both its cultural and medical meaning | Listening to NPR Saturday morning, I caught part of Scott Simoninterview of brothers Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon, M.D. discusses their book The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart. The interview touched on the story of the h... |
| - | Delivering operational command centers: improve patient access, throughput and financial stability for health systems | The healthcare industry has grown significantly in the last several years and the number of patients seeking emergency room and other medical services continues to grow. An increase in patients typically results in increased patient wait ti... |
| - | New CMS chief reportedly to be Donald Berwick | President Barack Obama found a point man for critical healthcare reform initiatives including comparative effectiveness research and cost-control, nominating Dr. Donald Berwick to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se... |
| - | Brace for impact on Celladon, a hospital is giving out Apple Watches (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
Look beyond the simple disaster that will be Celladon, which announced its heart failure treatment, Mydicar, slumped in clinical trials. What will it do to stocks like Bluebird Bio, UniQure or Spark Therapeutics?
Oschner Health ... |
| - | Who benefits from selling the idea of hospital-based killing? | It’s an interesting world in medicine these days. What I read in papers and see in flashy professionally-produced book trailers about hospitals as killing fields boggles the mind. Imagine: there are even full page spreads in papers as influ... |
| - | No, there is not any ‘snake oil’ on the road ahead in digital health | Over the weekend, the American Medical Association’s CEO called digital healthcare products modern-day “snake oil.”
As a provider and a technologist, I think we need a deeper dive to understand the issues, avoiding the kind of hyperbole tha... |
| - | Road map for patient-centered care, improving efficiencies focus of new book | Improving patient and family healthcare experiences through “shadowing,” taking a team-based approach to care and pairing transplant patients with a “guardian angel” are some of the practices that have been adopted and developed by healthca... |
| - | Healthcare staffing startup backed by Business Insider co-founder views telemedicine as next market opportunity | Nomad Health, a nearly one year-old healthcare staffing startup, has developed a way to automate the process of collecting applications, including licensing and credentialing information. The New York City-based business sees an opportunity... |
| - | To better focus on patient safety, healthcare nonprofits merge | Two health-promoting nonprofits have decided to merge to refocus public attention on patient safety.
The Boston-based National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) will be folded into the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in nearby Cam... |
| - | Preventable harm associated with at least 210K deaths in U.S. hospitals annually, NASA scientist’s study shows | Preventable harm contributes to between 210,000 and 440,000 deaths in American hospitals, a new literature review in the Journal of Patient Safety finds. It divides these lethal mistakes into errors of commission, omission, communication, c... |
| - | Defeating doctor burnout: It’s the systems, silly! | A recent National Academy of Medicine report uncovered a disturbing link between the burnout rate among clinicians and the use – or misuse – of technology.
Excuse me for not being shocked by the conclusions.
Technology can either contribute... |
| - | Q & A with Dr. Don Berwick on healthcare and political lessons | Dr. Donald Berwick might be running for Governor of Massachusetts, but he’s still got a foothold in his former life.
Berwick, most recently known as the acting chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, had a long record as the leading... |
| - | The next generation of doctors may be learning bad habits at teaching hospitals with many safety violations | The patient’s breaths had become labored. He struggled to pull air from his mouth to his lungs. It got so bad late one Saturday night that he decided to say something about it the next time his nurse made rounds at Jackson South Community H... |
| - | CMS head Donald Berwick faces congressional hot seat | Dr. Donald Berwick, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is facing a hot seat in Washington, D.C., tomorrow as he prepares for his first appearance in front of the U.S. Senate since a controversial recess appointment in J... |
| - | Improving medical errors by making interoperability a reality | To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical of... |
| - | One doc’s review of EscapeFire: It had drama, pathos, irony, and the graphics were good too! | This weekend, moviegoers can choose the traditional Hollywood action move Taken 2, Tim Burton’s claymation treat, Frankenweenie, or a documentary about healthcare reform. Just in time for election season.
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue Am... |
| - | ‘So much more to do’: A hospital system’s campaign to confront racism — and resistance to change — makes early strides | BOSTON — When a routine cancer screening came back showing an elevated PSA reading, George Brickhouse knew he should take it seriously. His father had been treated for prostate cancer and his brother had dealt with a scare. But the urologis... |
| - | The hidden digital health opportunities in Obamacare | I’ve worked in digital health for a while (I’m the co-founder of digital health start-up Care at Hand and a physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center), so I was as surprised as you may be when I discovered a tough tr... |
| - | Donald Berwick: ‘A breath of fresh air’ at CMS | Dr. Donald Berwick’s appointment as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services came as “a breath of fresh air” at the agency, according to CMS chief medical officer Dr. Barry Straube.
During a presentation on patient safety at th... |
| - | Change is good, but let’s remember: Innovation follows inspiration, not technology | I’m not really a technology guy. My choices in gizmos reflect this…the intuitive Apple computer, Zoom videoconferencing, athenahealth’s EMR, etc… My view of “meaningful use” is very different than that of the Department of Health and Human ... |
| - | How hospitals should approach quality improvement in a post-Covid-19 world | The concerning impact of Covid-19 pandemic on clinician and nurse burnout is an urgent topic of conversation in the healthcare community right now. Less widely discussed, but just as concerning, is the significant impact of the pandemic on ... |
| - | Morning Read: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants $9.6M to reduce newborn mortality in Ethiopia | TOP STORIES
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement announced it has received a $9.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in Ethiopia.
“In the last few years, Ethiopia has made... |
| - | The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway | This special report is the second of two parts. Read part one here.
When Quinn Capers IV took over as associate dean of admissions at the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2009, just 13% of the entering class came from racial and... |
| - | Four (really 3) ways to control healthcare spending | Labor Day is swiftly receding in the rear view mirror, a potentially transformative (or at least disruptive) mid-year election is only eight weeks away, and Medicare payment regulations for FY 2011 start to go live (acute inpatient hospital... |
| - | Why the interoperability final rule is the first step toward patient-centric care | New rules from the US Department of Health & Human Services on patient data interoperability – including the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule – are set to usher in a new era in healthcare where patients are allowed to safe... |
