Video: Farzad Mostashari on patient engagement, ‘physician ACOs’
As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat...
View ArticleAnother PHR venture (yawn) brings in some big names
I normally shy away from stories about the crowded and, to this point, spectacularly unsuccessful field of untethered personal health records, but one got my attention this week because of the names...
View ArticleeHealth Initiative ‘2020 Roadmap’ panel needs consumers
This press release showed up my inbox on Tuesday: eHealth Initiative Launches 2020 Roadmap Process Framework to Change the Future of Nation’s Healthcare System March 25, 2014, Washington, D.C. – The...
View ArticleDigital health at the Mid-America Healthcare Venture Forum
In case you haven’t seen the official announcements or caught my tweets, later this month I will be moderating a panel at the Mid-America Healthcare Venture Forum, an event being put on by MedCity...
View ArticlePodcast: Owen Tripp, CEO of Grand Rounds
Yesterday, Grand Rounds, a San Francisco-based startup that makes an “outcomes management platform” for large employer groups, introduced Office Visits, an online service that helps consumers find...
View ArticleVideo: StartUp Health co-founder talks Health Datapalooza on CNBC
Unity Stoakes, co-founder and president of entrepreneurship academy StartUp Health, was in Washington this week for Health Datapalooza. Tuesday morning, with the Capitol dome serving as a picturesque...
View ArticlePodcast: Greenway Health CEO Tee Green on interoperability, consumerism and more
Health IT vendor Greenway Health recently finished its rollout of a cloud-based EHR to all 8,200 Walgreens stores in the U.S. When I was offered the chance to interview CEO Wyche T. “Tee” Green III...
View ArticleMore health IT comedy means the public is taking notice
I often share jokes and humorous videos here, sometimes because a product is worthy of ridicule, but also to illustrate how some health IT is going mainstream. I’m going to do it again today because...
View ArticleHealth Wonk Review for the holidays
The final Health Wonk Review of 2014 is up (actually, it’s been up for five days, but I’ve been buried with deadlines until this morning), courtesy of Julie Ferguson and the Lynch Ryan Workers’ Comp...
View ArticlePodcast (but not mine): I discuss ACA, HIPAA, consumerism in healthcare
Longtime readers know how I’ve railed against how the mainstream media’s coverage of healthcare reform in general and the Affordable Care Act in particular, notably the fact that Obamacare addresses a...
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